Individual died in high security U.S. penitentiary in Coleman, Florida
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Corrections today announced the death of a Vermont-sentenced incarcerated individual at the Federal Correctional Complex USP Coleman I in Coleman, Florida, on Saturday, October 19, 2024. The Department was notified of the death by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, and has completed required next of kin and victim notifications.
Samuel Wright, 66, of Rosemère, Quebec, Canada, was lodged with BOP in May 1989, where he has since remained, to serve his Vermont sentence under the terms of a federal intergovernmental agreement. Due to a deportation detainer and sentence of 60 years to life, Mr. Wright was deemed unsuitable for placement in Vermont and housed within the federal system. Mr. Wright was due to return to Vermont in 2026 to begin pre-release programming.
Wright was convicted in 1988 in the bludgeoning death of a Burlington convenience store worker. He was given a 60-year-to-life prison term by Middlebury District Judge Linda Levitt. According to the UPI at the time, it was the stiffest prison term ever given in Vermont to a person convicted of murder.
The Vermont Department of Corrections notified the Office of the Defender General of the death per protocol.
More information on deaths in custody and death investigation findings can be found on DOC’s website: https://doc.vermont.gov/deaths-custody-reporting.
Source: 11.1.2024. Waterbury, VT – Vermont Department of Corrections
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