Vermont § 105 - Caseload capacity

§ 105. Caseload capacity

• (a) Corrections officers designated to work exclusively with offenders in the community
  who are 21 years of age and younger shall have caseloads of not more than 25 youths. (b) The Department shall review the severity of offenses and assess the risk to reoffend
  of all offenders older than 21 years of age under its jurisdiction in the community
  and assign one of the following levels of supervision to each offender: (1) Risk management supervision, which shall mean supervision at a level of intensity
  that includes case planning and measures to reduce risk of reoffense. (2) Response supervision, which shall mean monitoring of the offender’s compliance with
  conditions of probation or parole, including staff responding to violation behavior. (3) Administrative supervision, which shall mean monitoring of the offender’s address
  and compliance with the law. (c) An offender may be reassigned to a lower supervision level after a reassessment of
  the offender’s risk. (d) The Department shall establish the following caseload ranges for offender profiles: (1) All listed offenders requiring risk management shall be supervised at not more than
  45 offenders per corrections officer. (2) All nonlisted offenders requiring risk management shall be supervised at not more
  than 60 offenders per corrections officer. (3) All offenders requiring response supervision shall be supervised at not more than
  150 offenders per corrections officer. (4) All offenders requiring administrative supervision may be supervised on caseloads
  consistent with the capacity of automated status reporting systems as established
  by the Department. (5) When there is a mixed profile caseload in which a single corrections officer supervises
  offenders with different supervision levels and at least one-third of the offenders
  require a more intensive supervision demand than the other offenders, the caseload
  shall be supervised at the lowest level of offender-to-staff ratio. (e) If the caseloads established in subsection (d) of this section are exceeded for longer
  than 120 days, the Commissioner shall be authorized to designate community correctional
  officers to partially augment staffing caseloads. If such designation does not remedy
  the excess caseloads: (1) The Commissioner shall report to the Joint Legislative Justice Oversight Committee
  the causes for the excess and proposals for addressing them. (2) The Department shall have the authority, if the Commissioner believes that the excess
  will not be eliminated within 60 days, to hire persons from the positions drawn from
  the State’s vacancy pool as limited service employees for an initial period of up
  to one year. The initial period may be extended for up to two more years if the Department
  deems it necessary. (f) Each time a position is established under subdivision (e)(2) of this section, the
  Commissioner shall report it at the next meeting of the Joint Corrections Oversight
  Committee. The costs for each position shall be presented in the Department’s budget
  adjustment proposal and, if the positions are necessary for an ongoing period, in
  the Department’s annual budget request. (Added 2007, No. 179 (Adj. Sess.), § 6; amended 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 281.)