Vermont Department of Corrections

We create safety and equity by seeing potential, supporting change, and serving communities.

Mission:

We lead through innovation.

We support staff wellness.

We create rewarding career opportunities.

We ensure our facilities and field offices are safe, secure, and healthy.

We provide justice-involved individuals with opportunities for self-improvement.

We cultivate meaningful partnerships.

We advance restorative justice practices.

We lead through innovation.

Values:

Accountability: We, individually and collectively, act in accordance with our mission and values in service to our vision.

Collaboration: We succeed when we have diverse and equitable partnerships that include our communities and the people in our care and custody.

Compassion: We treat everyone with respect and dignity and respond empathetically to people's lived experience.

Equity: We address systemic barriers that hinder opportunity and use fair and impartial decision-making.

Innovation: We use evolving research from diverse communities to identify, develop, and implement effective practices.

Integrity: We practice our values in an honest and transparent way.

Safety: We create an equitable culture of physical, emotional, and material wholeness.