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The Indiana State Prison is a maximum security Indiana Department of Correction prison for adult males; however, minimum security housing also exists on the confines. [1] It is located in Michigan City, Indiana, about 50 miles (80 km) east of Chicago. [2] The average daily inmate population in November 2006 was 2,200, [3] 2,165 in 2011. [4]
Drug trafficking by staff was a problem at the facility in 1996. The Indiana State Police were observed frequently at the gates used by staff to enter the facility to conduct K-9 drug checks of vehicles and staff entering the facility. [citation needed] The water was turned off twice within the years 2013-2015.
Per the Offender Population Statistical Report, provided by the Indiana Department of Correction Division of Data Science and Analytics, there were 22,758 adult male offenders (including 724 county jail “back-ups” and 23 in contracted beds) on January 1, 2025. This population is 13% below the operational bed capacity.
By the eighteenth century, every county in the North American colonies had a jail. [55] A whipping post or pillory, with stocks atop it, at the New Castle County Jail, Delaware, in 1897. Colonial American jails were not the "ordinary mechanism of correction" for criminal offenders, according to social historian David Rothman. [56]
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]
Apr. 9—ANDERSON — The Madison County Council Tuesday passed a resolution to determine the need for the construction of the proposed $110.5 million jail to house 550 inmates. Attorney Adam ...
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Branchville Correctional Facility is an Indiana Department of Correction state prison for men, located in Branchville, Perry County, Indiana, on the southern edge of the state. [1] The prison is a medium-security facility opened in 1982 and has a capacity of 1,530. As of 2019, the prison housed 1,448 inmates, and employed 256 staff. [2]