City & County Jails in Vermont
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Clicking on any of the Vermont Counties or Cities below will direct you to a list of all the City Jails, County Jails and Juvenile Detention Centers in that specific County.
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Vermont Department of Corrections facilities
Vermont has 14 counties and no county jails. The sheriff does not hold anyone overnight. A person arrested in Burlington, Rutland, Brattleboro, or Newport is brought to the Vermont Department of Corrections. City and town police have a holding room for a few hours. That room is not a jail, and the person does not stay there.
The department runs every adult facility in the state. Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington takes the Chittenden County arrests, and it is also the women’s prison. Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans covers Franklin County. Marble Valley in Rutland covers Rutland County. Southern State in Springfield covers the south. Northeast Regional in St. Johnsbury and Northern State in Newport cover the Northeast Kingdom. Pretrial and sentenced people are in the same buildings. When the in-state beds are full, the department has sent people out of state. A federal sentence goes to the Bureau of Prisons. Vermont has no federal prison of its own.
Jails in Vermont are a county search only so a family can find which Department of Corrections facility covers the arrest. There is no sheriff’s jail to call.
How many county jails are there in Vermont?
None. Six Department of Corrections facilities cover 14 counties. A family in Burlington is looking at South Burlington. A family in the Northeast Kingdom is looking at Newport or St. Johnsbury. The county of the arrest tells you which facility, not which sheriff.
How many juvenile detention centers are there in Vermont?
Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex closed in 2020 after abuse allegations. The state later settled a lawsuit over the use of force there. The only current in-state placement is Red Clover Treatment Center in Middlesex, run as a temporary site, not by a county. In June 2026 the state proposed a 14-bed Green Mountain Youth Campus on Meadowland Drive in South Burlington, for youth ages 12 to 18. Eight beds would be a crisis unit for youth waiting on court. Six would be residential. Earlier sites in Newbury and Vergennes were dropped after local opposition. If permitting holds, the state hopes to open it in summer 2028. It is not open now. A youth is not booked into a county jail.
Search the county of the arrest. The adult listing is the Department of Corrections facility for that region. The youth listing is Red Clover until a permanent center opens.
What the first days in a Vermont correctional facility are like
The first day is a police station, then a ride to a Department of Corrections facility. Booking is a name, prints, a medical screen, a search, clothes in a bag, one call if the phones are working. The person has not been convicted. There is no phone in the cell, and no way to know if the job, the truck, or the kids got covered. Glasses stay in property until somebody signs for them. Burlington and Newport look the same once the person is inside.
January is the hard month. The holding cell is cold, the uniform does not fit, and the bunk is thin. The next bed is awake. Meals are plain and on a clock. Mail is slow. A visit from the Northeast Kingdom to South Burlington is a drive that may not happen. Withdrawal from alcohol, opioids, or methamphetamine can start before arraignment, and the night is when that gets loud. Officers who apply the rules the same way to everybody run a quieter unit. Uneven rules are how contraband moves. Chittenden can separate by risk. A smaller facility often cannot.
Tablets, video visits, and deposits take some of the isolation out. A message home does not fix the bed or the case, and the account can be shut off. Each facility page on this site lists the phone, the vendor, and the way to send money for the Department of Corrections.