Wabash Valley Correctional Facility News

Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle has a new superintendent, who has close, long-standing ties to Greene County.

Thinking positively for a change is just one of the concepts Turner Corn learned in prison.

James Basinger, former Assistant Superintendent of Operations for Wabash Valley Correctional Facility was recently named the new superintendent for the maximum security prison.

Getting a state identification card may seem a simple thing. Just show a few documents to prove who you are, and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles will issue the free photo ID card.

Eight men previously incarcerated at the Putnamville Correctional Facility were officially charged Tuesday for their roles in an Aug.

The name of the person who jumped from a bridge over the Wabash River on Saturday has been released by Clinton Police.

The Wabash Valley Correctional Facility is looking to fill jobs. On Wednesday the Carlisle facility hosted a job fair.

Authorities say an inmate in a southern Indiana prison's mental health unit was fatally strangled by another prisoner.

Dozens of workers scrambled around the new federal courthouse Friday morning, striving to make last-minute repairs or bring in furniture and equipment for the Terre Haute building slated to open Monday.

The trial of a convicted murderer on charges he assaulted a nurse at the Madison County Jail will begin in September, regardless of his attorney.

A Vanderburgh County woman faces criminal charges after allegedly trafficking tobacco to an offender Friday in a Wabash Valley Correctional Facility visiting room.

A 13-year-old boy charged with murder will be one of the youngest defendants ever to face trial in an adult court in Indiana.

Two Indiana State Prison inmates who recently made a failed break for freedom are now being placed under tougher restrictions, including moves to different locations.

The two Indiana State Prison inmates recaptured after their July 12 escape are in the most secure prison cells available -- and they're 140 miles apart.

Kids learned more about how police dogs respond at a summer police camp. More than 75 students attended the Indiana State Police Career Camp at Vincennes University and traveled to the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle Thursday morning.

One of the men convicted in the Camm family murders reacted to the Indiana State Supreme Court's reversal of a second David Camm conviction.

A few days ago, vandals struck a local cemetery. Saturday, inmates from the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility cleaned up the mess.

A Wabash Valley Correctional Facility officer faces criminal charges after being caught overnight trying to traffic marijuana into the maximum-security prison.

An officer at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Sullivan County is in jail.

By Staff Report Originally published 10:34 a.m., May 6, 2009 Updated 10:34 a.m., May 6, 2009 Anthony J. Johnson An Evansville man released from prison this week found himself back behind bars less than two days later on the same charge.