Vermont State Police said the man who tried to escape from the prison in Springfield last month did so by slipping between the top of the fencing and the razor wire above it.

Police on Thursday identified Dustin L. Deberville, 33, as the person who they say tried to flee Southern State Correctional Facility on Aug. 24.

Deberville is set to be arraigned on a felony charge of attempted escape later this month. He has been moved from the Springfield prison to the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans. 

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According to a state police press release, corrections officers at the Springfield prison saw an incarcerated person climbing the interior fence around 9:35 a.m. that day before slipping under the wire. The person was later identified as Deberville, police said. 

A corrections officer took Deberville into custody while he was still on prison grounds, according to the release. He would have needed to pass over two other fences to escape the facility.

An investigation found that Deberville planned the escape himself and also had a “small amount of supplies,” according to the release.

Rachel Feldman, a corrections spokesperson, declined to provide additional details Thursday, citing a need to protect the integrity of the department’s pending “after-action review.”

No one has completed an escape from the Springfield prison, she said.

Deberville is serving a sentence of seven to 15 years in prison on convictions of aggravated domestic assault with a weapon and first-degree aggravated domestic assault, according to Feldman.

He has been incarcerated on the charges since December 2018, Feldman said, with a minimum release date of August 2025.

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Alan J. Keays is the former longtime news editor of the Rutland Herald. He reports on criminal justice issues for VTDigger.

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