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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.
Layout of the original prison design, c. 1865 Illustration of Indiana State Prison, 1871. The history of the Indiana State Prison dates back to 1859 when the state legislature granted $50,000 for a new state prison. [3] It was named "State Prison West"; as opposed to "State Prison East" which was the first state prison located in Jeffersonville ...
Inmate name Age Register number Status Details Robert Gregory Bowers: 52 39188-068 Sentenced to death on August 3, 2023. White supremacist convicted and sentenced to death for the antisemitic mass-shooting of the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation synagogue on October 27, 2018, which killed 11 people and injured 6 others.
One of the two corrections officers accused of brutally attacking an inmate at Lowell Correctional, leaving her paralyzed, went on trial Wednesday, but not for that incident. Keith Mitchell Turner ...
The Correctional Industrial Facility is located directly beside the maximum security Pendleton Correctional Facility. The institution contains administrative, industrial and education buildings. CIF does not have cells, it has mostly two man rooms; inmates are housed in six housing units which together hold up to 1,416 inmates.
He sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections on the grounds that execution by lethal injection using the cocktail prescribed by Kentucky law constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case but rejected his challenge by a vote of 7–2. See Baze v. Rees: Victor Dewayne ...
The Westville Correctional Facility, located in Westville, Indiana, is a state-operated prison for adult males. The facility contains sections of three levels of security. [ 1 ] The average daily population in September 2006 was approximately 3,100. [ 2 ]
On February 1, 1985, a riot took place at the Pendleton Correctional Facility, then still known as the Indiana Reformatory. An inmate, Lincoln Love, who also referred to himself as Lokmar Yazid Abdul Wadood and passed away in 2020 while serving a sentence for involvement with the riot, [3] [4] was badly beaten by correctional officers after he refused to vacate his cell during a weapons check ...