- Isiah Vos, 39, seeks parole after 20 years in Utah State Prison.
- Convicted of murder, Vos cites a year without disciplinary write-ups.
- Vos aims to work with at-risk youth if released.
SALT LAKE CITY — Isiah Bo’Cage Vos has gone a year without any disciplinary write-ups at the Utah State Prison, but admits “there was a hot streak there for a little while.”
Vos, now 39, was sentenced to prison a little over 20 years ago for shooting and killing Jeffrey L. Maestas, 21, in the driveway of a Salt Lake home in 2004. Vos was convicted of murder, a first-degree felony, and sentenced to a minimum of six years and up to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
According to the state’s nonbinding sentencing guidelines, Vos could be released now. But as Greg Johnson, a member of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, pointed out to Vos during his parole hearing on Tuesday, the board will have to weigh his streak of having no disciplinary write-ups with his many violations, which include new criminal convictions…