Correctional Services oversees individulas placed on the following legal statuses:

Incarceration: The sentence is confinement to a correctional facility, under the care and custody of the Commissioner. Release is by the Parole Board, upon completion of the minimum term or placement on community supervision furlough by the Commissioner.

Home Detention: A program of confinement and supervision that restricts a defendant to a pre-approved residence continuously, except for authorized absences, and is enforced by appropriate means of surveillance and electronic monitoring by the Department of Corrections.

Community Supervision Furlough: At the completion of the minimum term of sentence, the inmate may be released to the community, still under confinement, subject to conditions of furlough.

Pre-approved Furlough: The offender is sentenced to a term of confinement, but with prior approval of the Commissioner, for immediate release on furlough. Furlough status is a community placement, but the revocation is administrative, and the rules for behavior more stringent.

Parole: On completion of Conditional Reentry, or during the term of incarceration, on petition of the State or the inmate, the Parole Board may release the inmate on Parole, subject to the rules of the Board, supervised by Corrections.

Supervised Community Sentence: Based on a law passed in 1990 that provides the legal framework for the intermediate sanctions program. The judge sentences, with prior approval of the Commissioner, to a set of conditions, minimum and maximum time frames and an intermediate sanctions programs. The offender is under the supervision of the Department of Corrections. The Parole Board is the appointed authority and violations are resolved through a Parole Hearing. When the offender reaches his minimum sentence the Parole Board may continue on SCS, convert to Parole, or discharge from supervision completely.

Probation: An offender found guilty of a crime upon verdict or plea, is released by the court without confinement, subject to the conditions and supervision by the Commissioner of Corrections. This is a contract between the offender and the court, to abide by conditions in return for the court not imposing the sentence. Violation of this sanction requires due process, with a court hearing, counsel, and proof beyond reasonable doubt. Within the probation sanction is the reparative probation program, which allows citizens on community panels to determine the quality of restitution made to the victim and repair of harm to the community, consistent with 28 VSA Chapter 12.