Tyler Mailloux, a Berlin man serving 18 months for a traffic offense in the hit-and-run accident that killed 14-year-old Gavin Knupp, will now have an opportunity to earn credits toward his sentence after being moved to another unit of the Worcester County Jail.
However, an administrative appeal the inmate filed this spring continues to work its way through the legal system after a circuit court judge last week denied the county’s request to dismiss the case.
Mailloux seeks jail housing change
Mailloux has been incarcerated in the Worcester County Jail since Feb. 25, when he entered a guilty plea to a felony count in Knupp’s death. Nine days later, he was moved to a more confined unit, known as a special management area, at his own request.
Since that time, however, Mailloux has sought the jail’s permission to be placed back into the general population, which his attorney, George Psoras, argued will give him an opportunity to earn diminution credits that can reduce his sentence.
With those requests denied, Mailloux’s attorney filed a petition in April seeking a judicial review of the jail’s actions.
“The respondents’ actions are arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion,” the petition reads. “These decisions violate the statutory authority regarding the housing of inmates and are unlawful and prejudice the substantial rights of the Petitioner.”
Awwww. Poor kid has it rough. Breaks my heart.