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Indiana State Prisons and Juvenile Facilities

In Indiana, one agency handles both adults and youth. The Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) runs the state’s adult prisons and, through its Division of Youth Services, the juvenile facilities that hold young people committed by the courts. The department was established in 1953, but the state’s prison history is much older: the legislature chartered Indiana’s first prison, in Jeffersonville, in 1823. Indiana also opened what is widely considered the nation’s first separate prison for women, in Indianapolis in 1873, a forerunner of today’s Indiana Women’s Prison.

On January 1, 2025, IDOC held about 22,750 men and 2,560 women. Several hundred of them were waiting in county jails for a prison bed. The system was running below its operational capacity at the time.

Indiana prisons by security level

Maximum security: Indiana State Prison (Michigan City), Pendleton Correctional Facility, Miami Correctional Facility (Bunker Hill) and Indiana Women’s Prison (Indianapolis)
High medium: Wabash Valley Correctional Facility (Carlisle); New Castle Correctional Facility houses several security levels
Low to medium security: Branchville, Correctional Industrial Facility (Pendleton), Plainfield, Putnamville (Greencastle), Westville and Rockville, which holds women
Minimum security and reentry: Chain O’Lakes (Albion), Edinburgh, Heritage Trail (Plainfield), Henryville, Medaryville, Madison (for women), the Indianapolis Re-entry Educational Facility and the South Bend Community Re-entry Center

A $1.2 billion replacement prison

The most expensive building project in Indiana history is rising in LaPorte County. The new Westville Correctional Facility, which broke ground in September 2023, is designed for up to 4,200 men plus a 240-bed mental health unit. It will replace both the existing Westville prison, opened in 1979, and the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, whose first bricks were laid before the Civil War. Completion was expected in early 2027, and in June 2026 officials described it as nearing completion.

Where do new prisoners go first?

Men sentenced to prison move from the county jail to the Reception Diagnostic Center in Plainfield, west of Indianapolis. Women go to Rockville Correctional Facility, which serves as the women’s intake center. Staff review each person’s sentence, health and history to set a security level and choose a permanent facility. Families should wait for that transfer before applying for visits.

How to look up an Indiana inmate

IDOC’s Offender Search lets you find someone by name or DOC number. It shows the person’s facility and earliest possible release date. Put the DOC number on everything you send, from letters to money deposits.

Executions resume

Indiana has the death penalty and uses lethal injection, carried out at Indiana State Prison. After a 15-year pause blamed on trouble getting drugs, the state executed Joseph Corcoran in December 2024, Benjamin Ritchie in May 2025 and Roy Lee Ward in October 2025, bringing its total since capital punishment returned in 1977 to 23. The Indiana Supreme Court has set the execution of Jeffrey Weisheit for November 5, 2026. Only five men remained on death row in mid-2026. The state has spent at least $1.275 million on pentobarbital since 2024 and keeps its supplier secret. A bill to add the firing squad narrowly failed in 2026, yet the new Westville prison was built to accommodate either method.

Indiana juvenile facilities

Youth a juvenile court commits to the state enter the IDOC Division of Youth Services. Boys first go to the intake unit at Logansport Juvenile Correctional Facility, where staff evaluate them and decide on placement. The division’s facilities are:

Logansport Juvenile Correctional Facility: intake and treatment for boys
Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility: treatment for boys
LaPorte Juvenile Correctional Facility: intake and treatment for girls

About 320 young people were in state juvenile facilities in January 2025, well below the facilities’ capacity. Before a case is decided, youth are held in county juvenile detention centers. Juvenile records are confidential, so parents and guardians should contact the facility or the Division of Youth Services directly.

To search for an inmate or juvenile, or to learn how to visit, call, write or send money to someone in the Indiana Department of Correction or Division of Youth Services, choose a facility from the list below.