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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.
Later, State Prison South became the Indiana Reformatory and State Prison North became known as Indiana State Prison. [3] In 1860, 100 acres (0.40 km 2) in Michigan City were purchased for $4,500. The first warden, Charles Seely, was the superintendent in charge of construction and was the general handyman. [3]
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 Clemens Unit, a prison farm in Brazoria County, Texas The Cummins Unit, a prison farm in Lincoln County, Arkansas. This type of penal institution has mainly been implanted in rural regions of vast countries. For example, the following passage describes the prison system of the U.S. state of North Carolina in the early twentieth century:
Speaking by telephone, John Serwatka, an Indiana State Prison inmate serving a life sentence for the 1975 stabbing deaths of a brother and sister in Lake County, testified about Stidham's service ...
The same year he relocated to a 410-acre (170 ha) farm, known as Treat Durand Farm, about 3 mi (4.8 km) southwest of Remington. [2]: 406 He served as a member of the Board of Prison Directors for the Indiana State Prison from 1883 until about 1891. He was considered one of the best agriculturists in the county. [1]
Richard Allen was sentenced to the maximum 130 years for the murders. in Delphi, Ind., of Abigail "Abby" Williams,13, and Liberty "Libby" German, 14.
One was released from prison in 2018 after serving most of a 20-year sentence, one is incarcerated at Michigan City's Indiana State Prison for the rest of his life and one died behind bars in 2019.