The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byThere is no county jail in Washington County
- Who holds people awaiting trialVermont Department of Corrections (Agency of Human Services)
- WhyVermont has no county jails. The state Department of Corrections is, in its own words, the sole agency overseeing all incarceration in Vermont, and it holds people detained before trial in the same six state facilities as sentenced people.
- What this means for this pageThe ten transparency checks ask what a county publishes about its own jail. This county does not have one, so it is not scored. The questions belong to the state.
Source: Vermont Department of Correction · checked 2026-08-23
The Sheriff
Sheriff Still needed
- Does the sheriff run a jail here?No
- What the office doesElected by the voters of their districts to four-year terms under Vermont Constitution Ch. II, Sec. 50. Sheriffs' departments serve court papers, assist with evictions, transport incarcerated people to and from court, provide courthouse security, and in many towns sell contract policing. They do not operate a jail.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Vermont — how corrections is organised · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Washington County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
In Vermont your town clerk runs the checklist and the polling place. Links from vote.gov and USA.gov.
Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered