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Vermont State Prisons and Juvenile Facilities

Vermont has no county jails. Like Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii and Rhode Island, it has a unified corrections system, so the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC), part of the state Agency of Human Services, runs every lockup in the state. The same six buildings hold people who were just arrested and can’t make bail, people awaiting trial and people serving long sentences. That mix matters: in fall 2025, more than 650 of the roughly 1,650 people in Vermont custody had not been convicted and were waiting for their cases to be heard.

Vermont’s prison history is long. The state penitentiary at Windsor was built in 1808 and stayed in use until 1975. In 1864 Vermont became the first state to move executions inside its state prison, and Windsor later housed the state’s electric chair. The chair now belongs to the Vermont Historical Society.

The six Vermont prisons

Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility (South Burlington): the state’s only prison for women
Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility (Rutland)
Northeast Correctional Complex (St. Johnsbury)
Northern State Correctional Facility (Newport)
Northwest State Correctional Facility (St. Albans Town), which also holds a small number of federal immigration detainees
Southern State Correctional Facility (Springfield)

Vermont also sends some men out of state. Under a contract with the private company CoreCivic, roughly 130 to 150 Vermont men are held at the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Tutwiler, Mississippi. The contract allows up to 300 beds, for men only. Families should know that someone can be moved there, and that the move puts them more than 1,300 miles from home.

Crowding and short staffing

After years of decline from a peak of more than 2,200 people in the late 2000s, Vermont’s prison population started climbing again in 2023. By September 2025, every one of the six prisons had at least one general population unit at or over capacity, and some people were sleeping on temporary “sled beds” on cell floors. Staffing is another strain. In July 2026, Commissioner Jon Murad said about 20% of security jobs were vacant on average, with Northern State in Newport hit hardest, and that overtime was still common even though forced overtime had dropped sharply.

A women’s prison that needs replacing

Chittenden Regional is more than 50 years old. In 2026 it held about 170 women in a building with 118 general population beds, so some women slept in spaces like the infirmary. At a September 2026 legislative hearing, Murad said it badly needs replacing, and one senator said it should be condemned. The state plans a new women’s prison with a reentry unit where women could work outside during the day and come back at night. But it still hasn’t found a site. Essex rejected two state-owned sites in 2024, and a later call for land drew a single bidder, who backed out. Lawmakers set aside $1.1 million for repairs at the current building in the meantime.

Finding someone in DOC custody

Use the DOC’s public inmate roster, which is linked from the state’s Offender Locator page, to search for someone by name and see which facility holds them. Because Vermont has no county jails, this one search covers people held right after an arrest as well as people serving prison sentences. Call the facility to confirm before you visit or mail anything.

No death penalty

Vermont put 26 people to death in its history, 25 of them after statehood, first by hanging and from 1919 by electric chair. The last was Donald DeMag, electrocuted at Windsor on December 8, 1954. In 1965 the state abolished the death penalty except for the murder of a police officer or prison guard. That exception lapsed after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1972 ruling in Furman v. Georgia and was formally repealed in 1987. In 2024, lawmakers also replaced an old treason law that still called for the electric chair.

Vermont juvenile facilities

Youth justice is run by the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF), not the DOC. Vermont closed its only secure youth facility, the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex, in 2020 amid allegations of staff abuse. Since then, the main placement for justice-involved youth who need a locked setting has been the Red Clover Treatment Center in Middlesex, which state officials call a stopgap. In June 2026, DCF proposed the Green Mountain Youth Campus, a 14-bed secure facility for ages 12 to 18 on Meadowland Drive in South Burlington, at an estimated cost of $27 million. Earlier sites in Newbury and Vergennes were dropped after local opposition, and the state hopes to open the campus by summer 2028. Juvenile records are confidential, so parents and guardians should contact DCF or the youth’s caseworker directly.

To search for an inmate or juvenile, or to learn how to visit, call, write or send money to someone in the Vermont Department of Corrections or Department for Children and Families, choose a facility from the list below.