The Indiana Department of Correction has suspended in-person visitations to eight prisons in response to the new coronavirus.

Employers touring the facility met inmates participating in four training programs: culinary arts, coding, construction and one at a marketing call center.

Indiana is one of 29 states that allows capital punishment. It's been nearly a decade since the state's last execution, and no new inmates have been added to Indiana's death row since 2013.

DeVos visited the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility to see a program aimed at teaching incarcerated youth to become software engineers.

State correction officials say an inmate who escaped Wednesday from the grounds of the Indiana State Prison has been captured.

The bill would allow overcrowded county jails to move low-level, nonviolent felons to regional facilities run by the Department of Correction.

The bill would allow overcapacity jails to move some of those felons to state Department of Correction facilities - if the DOC has space.

The staff members were assessed and treated before they were transported to Duke Memorial Hospital in Peru for evaluation.

The IDOC issued an executive directive in March 2017 that regulates what types of mail inmates can receive from people other than their attorneys.

Counties currently get a $35 per diem for every Level 6 felon they house in their jails. The Indiana Sheriffs Association says it's been at least 30 years since that changed.