Our Services
- Sex Offender Management and Monitoring (SOMM) Program
- P.L.U.S. Units
- Substance Abuse Treatment Units and Programs
- Work Release
- Case Management
- Community Transition Program (CTP)
- County Community Corrections Programs
- Pre-release Programs and Community Re-entry Centers
- Pre-Release Re-Entry Program
The following is a list of Indiana Department of Correction programs and services designed to facilitate successful offender transition and reintegration from prison back to the community as productive law-abiding citizens.
Sex Offender Management and Monitoring (SOMM) Program
The Indiana Sex Offender Management and Monitoring Program (SOMM) is an innovative program that invites collaboration between public and private sector groups for the reduction of sex offenses. SOMM provides specialized programming for adult sex offenders committed to the Indiana Department of Correction.
SOMM utilizes a containment model to provide maximum protection to the public during supervision in the community.
SOMM is a two-fold program:
- Provides treatment to increase the offenders' self-awareness. This allows offenders to take responsibility for their offenses and make cognitive and behavioral modifications, thus decreasing their risk of re-offending.
- Monitors offenders' progress during incarceration and release. Ideally this includes intensive treatment programs utilizing the containment approach.
The SOMM Re-entry Program provides education to SOMM offenders incarcerated at DOC concerning obligations of the Indiana Sex Offender Registry. These classes are conducted with the identified SOMM offenders in the seven to nine months prior to release. The classes provide information regarding community supervision issues for the offender being placed on parole and/or probation supervision.
- SOMM is specifically designed to manage an offender population that poses a serious threat to public safety.
- The SOMM program curriculum is standardized to guarantee consistency in program delivery across all facilities.
- SOMM provides a summary report on all offenders which includes modus operandi, risk level to the community, and recommendations for community supervision.
P.L.U.S. Units
PLUS (Purposeful Living Units Serve) is the name of Indiana Department of Correction's Character- and Faith-Based re-entry initiative.
- The purpose of the PLUS program is to provide opportunities for inmates to address the issues that contribute to recidivism in the context of a supportive community using faith or character education as a resource.
- The adult PLUS program takes 16 months to complete while the juvenile PLUS program takes 16 weeks to complete.
- Curriculum addresses issues such as moral and character development, relationship skills, substance abuse, victim impact, religious/cultural/racial diversity, conflict management and criminal thinking patterns.
Substance Abuse Treatment Units and Programs
- The Department of Correction Substance Abuse Program continues to strive to make significant improvements in program efficiencies, and increased substance abuse treatment services to the offender population during 2007.
- CLIFF Units, modified Therapeutic Communities that focus on treating methamphetamine addiction, have been very successful in graduating offenders from their treatment programs during 2007. CLIFF Units have been established at the Miami Correctional Facility and Wabash Valley for men, and at Rockville Correctional Facility for women. These programs have a strong focus on treating addiction as well as addressing criminal thinking. Preparing offenders for successful and sober re-entry into the community is the primary goal.
- The Indiana Department of Correction has also established Therapeutic Communities at Westville Correctional Facility and Branchville Correctional Facility. These programs are modified Therapeutic Communities that provide intensive chemical dependency treatment as well as addressing criminal thinking and other criminogenic factors. As above, successful and sober re-entry into the community is the primary goal.
- In addition, the Department has developed a Guided Self Study which replicates our current Phase One Education Groups. This allows offenders to complete the education component of our three-phase substance abuse program with minimal staff guidance. This frees staff time to provide additional treatment services to the offender population
- With the strong productivity in the CLIFF Units, Modified Therapeutic Communities, and outpatient programs, the Department has current capacity to serve approximately 3300 offenders on any given day. As we increase utilization of the guided self study, this capacity will increase. Eliminating waiting lists for substance abuse services is a major focus for the Department. We have been able to reduce waiting lists by over 50%, and efforts to eliminate them are ongoing.
Work Release
Work release enables offenders nearing the end of their incarceration to participate in a preparatory program for reintegration into society. Selected adult offenders reside in a community-based correctional facility and are allowed to work and further their educational and treatment interests within the community.
- There is a strict classification criterion that serves as a risk assessment tool to screen appropriate offenders for the opportunity to participate in work release. Generally, most offenders that are approved for work release are non-violent, having been sentenced for property and drug offenses.
- The work release program offers the offender a variety of life skills programs to assist in the realistic transition to the community. Additionally, most offenders have experienced significant problems with substance abuse. The work release program offers intensive substance abuse aftercare/relapse prevention treatment designed specifically to address the criminal risk factors the offender will face upon release.
- While participating in work release, all offenders are serving the remaining 12 months of their sentence to Indiana Department of Correction. If successful with their work release assignment, the offender is released to either parole or probation. (Do they all go to parole/probation, or are some simply released?
Case Management
The Indiana Department of Correction Case Management Staff functions as a “Unit Team”. Their focus on the offenders Re-Entry process begins on an offender’s first day of incarceration. An Initial Re-Entry Accountability Plan is formulated and follows the offender through the habilitative process and into the community. By collaborating with communities, our Case Management teams work to ensure a successful Re-Entry process.
Community Transition Program (CTP)
In 1999, the Indiana State Legislature passed a statute allowing each county to develop a Community Transition Program. As defined in IC 11-8-1-5.5. CTP is the assignment of an offender from the DOC to a Community Corrections program, or in a county that does not have a Community Corrections program, a program of supervision by the probation department for a period of time from the offender’s CTP commencement date until the offender completes his or her fixed term of imprisonment, less any applicable credit time. Specific rules are established by each county based on its available programs and the individual needs of offenders.
- Everyone committed to DOC under IC 35-50 is eligible for CTP except the following:
- Those sentenced to less than 2 years in the DOC.
- Those with active non-DOC warrants, detainers, or pending charges.
- Those who do not meet the notification time requirements specified in IC 11-10-11.5.
- Those who are not residents of Indiana.
- Those with indeterminate life sentences.
- Those sentenced to life without parole.
- Those sentenced to death.
- Those who are safe keepers, pre-disposition, and misdemeanants.
- Those convicted of a Class D felony may begin CTP 60 days prior to their Earliest Possible Release Date (EPRD). Those convicted of a Class C felony may begin CTP 90 days prior to their EPRD. Those convicted of a Class A or B felony will be eligible no more than 120 days prior to their EPRD.
- If an offender violates CTP rules, Community Corrections and probation have the authority to return an offender back to DOC. They may also hold conduct adjustment hearings and sanction an offender in the same manner as if he or she were in a DOC facility.
- Offenders do not need to sign up for CTP. Rather, when an offender becomes eligible, the CTP staff notifies the sentencing court(s), the county prosecutor where the case originated, and the Community Corrections agency or probation department in that county.
- Offenders will be released to parole, probation, or discharged depending on the terms of the sentence upon completion of CTP. The sentencing court may direct a different type of release, should they so choose.
County Community Corrections Programs
The State of Indiana provides funding for counties to operate local Community Corrections programs in order to provide supervision and treatment to offenders in their community as an alternative to incarceration or as they transition back into the community.
- Counties that receive Community Corrections grants represent over 85% of the State's population, and may serve adults and juveniles.
- Each County Community Corrections program is governed by a Community Corrections Advisory Board as established by statute to formulate, observe and coordinate its local program. Local programs are operated as independent county agencies, by not-for-profit agencies under contract to the county or as a division of the local probation or sheriff's departments.
County Community Corrections programs often include:
- Residential or Work Release Programs
- House Arrest, Home Detention, and Electronic Monitoring
- Day Reporting
- Community Transition Program
- Forensic Diversion
- Juvenile Detention Alternatives
- Community Restitution or Work Crews
- Victim/Offender Reconciliation
- Community Re-Entry
- Community Corrections programs target offenders in the community who:
- Are serving sentences in a community-based program versus the Department of Correction,
- Have been released from the Department through the Community Transition Program (CTP)
- Are serving a split sentence with a condition of Community Corrections following his/her period of incarceration.
- Information regarding specific offenders participating in a Community Corrections programs is available through the local Community Corrections Office.
Community Corrections programs are responsible for offenders in the community who:
- Have been diverted from the Department of Correction,
- have been released from the Department through the Community Transition Program (CTP), and
- Are serving a split sentence with a condition of Community Corrections following his/her period of incarceration.
Information regarding specific offenders participating in a Community Corrections program is best available through the local Community Corrections Office.
Pre-release Programs and Community Re-entry Centers
- Community Re-entry Centers enable offenders nearing the end of their incarceration to participate in a preparatory program for reintegration into their releasing community. Selected adult offenders reside in a community-based correctional facility and can work and further their educational and treatment interests within the community.
- A strict classification criterion serves as a risk assessment tool to screen appropriate offenders for the opportunity to participate in CRCs. Generally, most offenders who are approved for work release are non-violent, having been sentenced for property and drug offenses.
- The CRC program offers the offender a variety of life skills programs to assist in the realistic transition to the community. Additionally, most offenders have experienced significant problems with substance abuse. The work release program offers intensive substance abuse aftercare/relapse prevention treatment designed specifically to address the criminal risk factors the offender will face upon release.
- While participating in work release, all offenders are serving the remaining 12 months of their sentence to the Indiana Department of Correction. If successful with their work release assignment, the offender is released through a continued step-down community supervising agency.
Pre-Release Re-Entry Program
Pre-Release Re-Entry Programming is designed to provide awareness and review of self-improvement skills, job-seeking skills, and community and family values necessary to successfully reintegrate into society.
Every attempt is made to address the issues of obtaining adequate social identification, housing, and employment resources before offenders are released.
Individual Re-Entry Coordinators can be contacted by dialing the phone number listed below. Each adult facility has a Re-Entry Coordinator.
| Edinburgh Correctional Facility | 812-526-8434 |
| Branchville Correctional Facility | 812-843-5921 |
| Chain O'Lakes Correctional Facility | 219-636-3114 |
| Correctional Industrial Facility | 765-778-8011 |
| Henryville Correctional Facility | 812-294-4372 |
| Indiana State Prison | 219-874-7256 |
| Indiana Women's Prison | 317-639-2671 |
| Indiana State Minimum Security Prison | 219-872-8239 |
| Madison Correctional Facility | 812-265-6154 |
| Miami Correctional Facility | 765-689-8920 |
| New Castle Correctional Facility | 765-593-0111 |
| Pendleton Correctional Facility | 765-778-2107 |
| Plainfield Re-Entry Educational Facility | 317-839-2513 |
| Putnamville Correctional Facility | 765-653-8441 |
| Rockville Correctional Facility | 765-569-3178 |
| Wabash Valley | 812-398-5050 |
| Westville Correctional Facility | 219-785-2511 |
Contact Us
For additional information,
please contact:
Indiana Government Center South
Room E334
302 W. Washington Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
Phone 1-317-232-1590
You can find a map of Indiana Department of Correction locations on the web at:www.in.gov/idoc/
