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The Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) operates state prisons in Indiana. It has its headquarters in Indianapolis . [ 1 ] As of 2019, the Indiana Department of Correction housed 27,140 adult Inmates, 388 juvenile Inmates, employed 5,937 State Employed Staff, and 1,718 Contracted Staff.
The Putnam County Jail is located in Greencastle, Indiana.It houses approximately 145 adult men and women. The jail houses three categories of inmates: county inmates awaiting trial, county inmates serving sentences of less than one year, and inmates from the Indiana Department of Correction who have been placed in the jail to relieve overcrowding in state prisons.
Through the two-year period between 1977 and 1979, the proportion of inmates increased and the number of mental patients decreased until, in June 1979, only inmates remained. [4] Following the final transition into a prison came the construction of education and industrial complexes, gymnasium, multi-purpose building and chapel. [ 3 ]
Plainfield Correctional Facility is a prison for men of the Indiana Department of Correction located in Plainfield, Indiana. [1] The facility opened in 1969 as the Indiana Youth Center. [2] As of 2016, the prison housed 1,659 inmates, and employed 333 staff. [3]
The women prisoners have filed two federal lawsuits alleging that they were subjected to a "night of terror" after male inmates bought a key to their wing from one of the jailers for $1,000.
A report from the Texas Rangers, the state’s premier law enforcement unit, laid out a chilling portrait of neglect. Other inmates at the facility had told investigators that they knew something was wrong with Alexander in early January. He had stopped eating, his lips turned purple, and he shivered even while taking hot showers.
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The Putnamville Correctional Facility, located in Warren Township, Putnam County, near Greencastle, Indiana, is a medium-security prison for men located on 4,350 acres (17.6 km 2) in Putnam County, Indiana (the west-central part of the state, 3.8 miles West of U.S. Routes 231 and 40). [1] It currently houses approximately 2,400 inmates.