Vermont Department of Corrections
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Protect Vermonters by operating safe, humane, and secure facilities and by preparing offenders to become productive law-abiding community citizens.
DOC staff support and partner with communities to enhance safety and quality of life by ensuring offenders take responsibility for their crimes and make amends to crime victims and society.
Community participation and support are essential for the successful delivery of correctional services.
People can change.
Victims have the right to have an active role in determining how their needs can best be met.
Offenders are responsible, to the extent possible, to repair harm done to victims and the community
DOC Principles DOC Principles
Central offices located in Waterbury
Probation and parole offices overseeing approximately 10,000 individuals
Eight correctional facilities in…
•St Johnsbury is Caledonia Work Camp
•St. Johnsbury is Northeast Regional
•South Burlington is Chittenden Regional
•Rutland is Marble Valley
•Newport is Northern State
•Swanton is Northwest State
•Windsor is Southeast State
•Springfield is Southern State
Eight correctional facilities in…
•St Johnsbury is Caledonia Work Camp
•St. Johnsbury is Northeast Regional
•South Burlington is Chittenden Regional
•Rutland is Marble Valley
•Newport is Northern State
•Swanton is Northwest State
•Windsor is Southeast State
•Springfield is Southern State
Offender Population Offender Population
DOC Program Services
The department’s Program Services group oversees treatment and educational services for offenders to include:
substance abuse,
domestic violence,
work,
post-secondary education,
sex offender and violent offender treatment, and
female & family services
DOC Program ServicesCommunity High School of Vermont
Required of inmates under the age of 23 who do not have a diploma or GED.
Accredited, diploma granting high school run in correctional facilities.
Highest secondary enrollment in Vermont.
DOC Program Services
Women’s Services
Women’s Services
creating and maintaining a gender responsive and trauma informed approach to woman within the
correctional system
This includes the Incarcerated Woman’s Initiative focused on keeping woman out of jail and with their families, the woman’s only facility in Swanton, in some locations probation officers with all woman case loads, and staff training.
DOC Program Services
Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Abusers
Vermont Treatment Program for Sexual Abusers
a nationally acclaimed program that uses contracted licensed therapists to teach offenders how to accept, understand, modify and maintain permanent changes in behavior relating to illegal sexual behavior.
DOC Program Services
Offender Work Programs
Offender Work Programs
designed with the understanding that individuals who are busy and productive are less likely to get in to trouble, more likely to feel better, and have more skills in increase their post incarceration employment opportunities.
Vermont Correctional Industries
Community Work Programs
Habits of Mind training program
In fiscal year 2008 over 400,000 hours of community service were provided by DOC work crews
DOC Program Services
Cognitive Self Change for Violent Offenders
How to identify thoughts and attitudes that lead to violent acts
How to find and use new thoughts and attitudes that don't.
Learning and demonstrating the ability to perform four skills: • Pay attention to your thinking.
• Recognize when your thoughts and feelings are leading you toward committing a violent or criminal action.
• Think of new thinking that will lead you away from violence and crime, and that you can feel OK with yourself when you think it.
• Practice using this new thinking in real life situations.
DOC Program Services
Domestic Violence Programs
Independent community organizations provide certified batterer intervention programs for probation-level cases
Intensive Domestic Abuse Program (IDAP) which occurs for felony level sexual offenders who are on pre-approved furlough in the community.
Incarcerated Domestic Abuse Program (InDAP) which occurs within the facility
Support the safety and well-being of victims, children and the community
Hold offenders accountable for their choices, and
Support offenders in their process of change.
Support the safety and well-being of victims, children and the community
Hold offenders accountable for their choices, and
Support offenders in their process of change.
Substance Abuse Programs
DOC Program Services
Intensive Substance Abuse Program (ISAP)
Discovery: Therapeutic Community @ Caledonia Work Camp
Residential & Outpatient Treatment @ Northwest
Evolutions: Therapeutic Community @ Windsor Work Camp
Tapestry: community based residential treatment for woman
DOC Field Services
11 community-based facilities, also called probation and parole
Supervises offenders according to severity of their risk to re-offend
Administers the Vermont Reparative Probation Program
Interstate Compact Agreement
DOC Field Services
Restorative Community Justice
Engages community partners in the correctional process.
Focuses on effective re-entry strategies and programs for offenders.
Repair injuries to people and the community by encouraging and supporting parties with a stake in a particular offense to
participate in its resolution.
Victim Services Unit Quality Assurance Unit
Housing Program.
Restorative Community Justice
Victim Services
Information, assistance, and support to victims of crime
In fiscal year 2008, over 1,000 victims received
services
Vermont Automated Notification Services or VANS
Victim Offender Dialog Program
Victim Impact Panels
Programs include:
Facility Services
Woman’s Facility
Sex Offender Treatment Program
Mental Health Unit
Largest Infirmary
Classification and Out of State Units
Classification Unit
Determines which facility an offender will be placed in initially or transferred to based on the which programs he or she will participate in.
Out of State Unit
Oversees inmate placements to out of state prisons mostly in Kentucky and West Tennessee. Placements out of state are necessary to alleviate crowding in Vermont prisons. About 700 out of approximately 2,200 inmates are placed out of state.
Health Services
The Director of Health Services manages the contracts for health services for inmates, responds to grievances and ADA complaints.
The department also has a Mental Health Services Chief, psychologist and chief nurse on staff; all other health services are contracted out
The Director of Health Services manages the contracts for health services for inmates, responds to grievances and ADA complaints.
The department also has a Mental Health Services Chief, psychologist and chief nurse on staff; all other health services are contracted out
Volunteer Services
Lisa Menard, DOC Deputy Commissioner
To complete this course and add it to your training recordplease click on this link below
https://www.ahsinfo.ahs.state.vt.us/apps/donecourse.cfm