While Indiana lags behind many other states in the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations, incarcerated Hoosiers are accepting the vaccine at a higher rate than the general population.

Indiana could pay about 50 percent more a year for prison medical services with a new contractor picked by state officials.

Indiana lawmakers are pushing local criminal justice leaders to examine more closely why people are incarcerated.

An Indiana inmate convicted of a 2002 triple murder fatally stabbed one corrections officer and seriously injured another at the maximum-security prison where he's serving a 130-year sentence.

A new effort at the Marion County Jail aims to stop drugs from entering the facility via the mail.

Seven Vigo County Jail inmates filed their federal lawsuits in December as letters with the U.S. District Court in Terre Haute that ask the court to intervene for the health of the inmates.

Doses of the coronavirus vaccine had been delivered to 19 prisons, including the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, by Wednesday, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman told The Associated Press.

Former Miami Correctional Facility employees tell Side Effects Public Media that the prison is out of control. Data from the Miami County Central Dispatch reinforce that image.

One third of the Miami prison's staff positions are vacant, and since May, it has lost more than 30 employees every month.

A Marion County Jail inmate was found fatally stabbed early Saturday, apparently by another inmate, the jail reported.