Vermont Department of Corrections

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Vermont Department of Corrections
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AbbreviationVDOC
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionVermont, USA
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Map of Vermont Department of Corrections's jurisdiction
Size9,620 square miles (24,900 km2)
Population643,503 (2020) [1]
General nature
Operational structure
Headquarters Waterbury, Vermont, USA
Agency executive
  • Nicholas J. Deml, Commissioner
Parent agency Vermont Agency of Human Services
Website
doc.vermont.gov

The Vermont Department of Corrections is the government agency in the U.S. state of Vermont charged with overseeing correctional facilities, supervising probation and parolees, and serving in an advisory capacity in the prevention of crime and juvenile delinquency. It is a part of the Vermont Agency of Human Services. [2]

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The agency is headquartered at the Waterbury State Office Complex in Waterbury, Vermont. [3] [4] [5]

Nicholas J. Deml was appointed commissioner by Vermont governor Phil Scott in November 2021. [6] [7] [8] Deml replaced interim commissioner Jim Baker, who served from December 2019 until October 2021. [9] [10]

State prison facilities

As of 2018, the Vermont Department of Corrections manages the operations of six prison facilities in the state of Vermont. There were 1,334 prisoners in the system in 2022. [11]

NameLocationPrisonersGender
Northern State Correctional Facility Newport
379
Male
Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility South Burlington
98
Female
Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility Rutland
100
Male
Northeast Regional Correctional Facility St. Johnsbury
151
Male
Northwest State Correctional Facility Swanton [12]
185
Male
Southern State Correctional Facility Springfield
301
Male

Vermont's former Dale Women's Facility in Waterbury, Vermont closed in early 2009. [13] State officials considered closing the Caledonia Community Work Camp (adjacent to the Northeast Regional Correctional Facility) in St. Johnsbury in March 2016 because of underpopulation. [14]

While security is handled by state employees, services, such as health services, have been contracted out. [15] There are 600 corrections officers. [16]

The State of Vermont contracted with Corrections Corporation of America to house inmates in out-of-state private prisons beginning in the mid-1990s, and has continued the practice. [17] About 115 prisoners are held outside the state of Vermont. These prisoners cost half as much as the prisoners in state because of the economies of scale in larger prisons, and because only healthy prisoners are exported. [18]

In the past, the State of Vermont held prisoners at the Lee Adjustment Center in Beattyville, Kentucky [19] (now closed), and at the Florence Correctional Center in Florence, Arizona, both CCA properties. The State of Vermont also formally contracted with the GEO Group and transferred out-of-state prisoners to the North Lake Correctional Facility in Michigan. [20]

The State of Vermont now contracts with CoreCivic to house inmates out of state at Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Mississippi.

Probation and parole offices

There are 13 community-based probation and parole offices throughout the state of Vermont. These are under the administrative jurisdiction of the Vermont Department of Corrections. The offices are located in Barre, Bennington, Brattleboro, Burlington, Chelsea (sub-office in Hartford District), Hartford, Middlebury (sub-office to Rutland), Morrisville, Newport, Rutland, St. Albans, St. Johnsbury, and Springfield. [21]

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Vermont Department of Corrections, three officers have died in the line of duty. [22]

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  2. ↑ State of Vermont website accessed January 11, 2008
  3. ↑ "Contact the Vermont Department of Corrections." Vermont Department of Corrections. Retrieved on February 24, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Waterbury State Office Complex." Vermont Department of Corrections. Retrieved on February 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ "About the Department of Corrections." Vermont Department of Corrections. Retrieved on February 24, 2020. "A map showing where the Department of Corrections Central Office is in the Waterbury State Office complex."
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  12. ↑ (St. Albans)
  13. ↑ Corcoran, Michael (24 April 2008). "Waterbury worries about closing Dale prison facility". Stowe Today. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  14. ↑ Burbank, April (14 March 2016). "Why Vermont could close St. Johnsbury prison work camp". Burlington Free Press. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  15. ↑ "Editorial: Open government can't be privatized". Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. 2 September 2010. pp. 11A.
  16. ↑ Local men graduate from corrections officer school. the Chronicle. September 12, 2007.
  17. ↑ Krantz, Laura (21 January 2014). "Vermont inmates on lockdown at Kentucky prison". Vermont Digger. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  18. ↑ Gresser, Joseph (June 4, 2008). State outlines new prison policy. the Chronicle.
  19. ↑ Davis, Mark (2 December 2015). "Vermont Inmates Pine for Their Old Kentucky Prison". Seven Days. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
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  21. ↑ "Probation and Parole Offices — Department of Corrections". doc.vermont.gov/.
  22. ↑ "Vermont Department of Corrections, VT". The Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP).
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