There are a state prison at Windsor (1808), a house of correction at Rutland (1878), an industrial school at Vergennes (1866), and hospitals for the insane at Brattleboro (1836) and Waterbury (1891).
Other buildings are the orphanage, the hospital, a house of correction for women and a music hall.
It is a well-built city, the principal public buildings being the government house, the church, of St Mary, the gymnasium and the house of correction.
He is himself one of the board of education, of the board of public works, and of the board for the management of the house of correction.
Each county has an almshouse and house of correction.