[3][4][5] Nicholas J. Deml was appointed commissioner by Vermont governor Phil Scott in November 2021.

[6][7][8] Deml replaced interim commissioner Jim Baker, who served from December 2019 until October 2021.

[13] State officials considered closing the Caledonia Community Work Camp (adjacent to the Northeast Regional Correctional Facility) in St. Johnsbury in March 2016 because of underpopulation.

[16] The State of Vermont contracted with Corrections Corporation of America to house inmates in out-of-state private prisons beginning in the mid-1990s, and has continued the practice.

The State of Vermont also formally contracted with the GEO Group and transferred out-of-state prisoners to the North Lake Correctional Facility in Michigan.