Miami Correctional Facility News

NEW CASTLE -- An ex-guard at the New Castle Correctional Facility is accused of providing sex, vodka and jewelry to a bandit linked to a Fort Wayne teenager's slaying.

Howard County Arrests Wednesday, 10:25 a.m., police arrested Ronnie E. Burtrand, 24, 5100 block of South Webster Street, at that residence, on a warrant for petition to revoke a suspended sentence.

Karen Smith is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor II for Branchville Correctional Facility's Substance Abuse Re-Entry Department BRANCHVILLE, IN, June 4, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Karen Ann Smith, MS, CADAC II, Substance Abuse Counselor III and Family Community Re-Entry Specialist for Branchville Correctional Facility's Substance ...

Although some offenders end up back in prison a second, third or even fourth time, the Indiana Department of Correction is making headway in reducing that frequency.

Roses * To the local organizations that joined to help the Salvation Army raise the matching funds it needed to apply for $18,000 in funding to help individuals and families affected by the current recession.

A projected increase in new violent felons and already overcrowded prisons have put Indiana in desperate need of more cell space for maximum security inmates, state Department of Correction officials said ...

Miami Correctional Facility came to the rescue Monday when called by Miami County Emergency Management Agency to fill sandbags to be used to prevent flooding in the county.

Democrats who control the Indiana House moved forward Tuesday on their version of a one-year budget plan that includes some key differences from a proposal recommended by Republican Gov.

Orientation, education, treatment and re-entry into the community are the keys to the Indiana Department of Correction's Clean Living Is Freedom Forever program.

Last Tuesday, Jan. 13, Gov. Mitch Daniels, in his annual State of the State Address at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, talked about Indiana's economy and how it will affect the state's budget for the next two ...

Democratic legislators are questioning the decision by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels to have two prison expansions as the only building projects in his new state budget proposal.

Correctional facility scores high on audit BUNKER HILL - The Miami Correctional Facility recently completed a successful audit by the program review division of the Indiana Department of Correction.

St. John - One of two men serving life sentences for the 1971 killings of a St. John town marshal and an Indiana State Police trooper has died at the Westville Correctional Facility.

The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee got its first look Tuesday at Gov.

Heated exchanges between House Democrats and two top deputies of Gov. Mitch Daniels marked a meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday as state lawmakers began crafting the state budget.

Gov. Mitch Daniels wants a two-year moratorium on new capital projects funded by Indiana taxpayers -- but the lean budget he proposed does include money for the expansion of two prisons.

While many residents will spend Christmas Day surrounded by family, others do not get that opportunity.

At the Miami Correctional Facility, a pack of ramen noodles costs 22 cents, nearly twice the amount of the average offender's wage of 12 cents an hour.

Prison collects food for needy BUNKER HILL - It's an unusual sight, a Kroger shopping cart making its way around the prison yard, but that's exactly what's happening at Miami Correctional Facility.

Indiana Department of Correction Commissioner Edwin G. Buss on Wednesday appointed Michael Osburn as deputy commissioner of operations and Bruce Lemmon as superintendent of the Putnamville Correctional ...