Vermont Department of Corrections

Vermont Department of Corrections
Abbreviation	VDOC
Patch of the Vermont Department of Corrections
Seal
Agency overview
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction*	State of Vermont, USA
Map of Vermont Department of Corrections's jurisdiction.
Size	9,620 square miles (24,900 km2)
Population	621,270 (2008 est.)
General nature	Law enforcement Civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Williston, Vermont, USA
Parent agency	Vermont Agency of Human Services
Website
VDOC Website
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Vermont Department of Corrections is an executive agency of the U.S. State of Vermont charged with overseeing the State of Vermont's correctional facilities, supervising probation and parolees, and serving in an advisory capacity in the prevention of crime and delinquency. It is a part of the Vermont Agency of Human Services.

Currently the agency is headquartered in the White Cap Business Park in Williston. The agency was previously headquartered at the Waterbury State Office Complex in Waterbury.

As of 2016 the Department of Corrections manages the operations of seven prison facilities within the state. There were 2,202 prisoners in the system in 2007.

The State of Vermont's former Dale Women's Facility in Waterbury closed in early 2009. State officials were considering closing its Caledonia Community Work Camp in St. Johnsbury, adjacent to the Northeast Regional Correctional Facility, in March 2016 because of underpopulation.

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

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. About 500 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.

In the past, Vermont had prisoners at the Lee Adjustment Center in Beattyville, Kentucky (now closed), and at the Florence Correctional Center in Florence, Arizona, both CCA properties. As of 2015^[update] the State of Vermont contracts with the GEO Group and has transferred out-of-state prisoners to the North Lake Correctional Facility in Michigan.