Title 11, CORRECTIONS

Sec. 5. This chapter does not preclude a county from receiving a subsidy under IC 11-12-2 for the delivery of probation services. As added by Acts 1979, P.L.120, SEC.6.

Sec. 1. (a) The department may contract with any city, county, state, or federal authority, or with other public or private organizations, for: (1) the custody, care, confinement, or treatment of committed persons; or (2) subject to subsection (e), the provision of other correcti…

Sec. 2. The department may contract with any city, county, state, other state, or federal authority to receive persons committed to that authority into facilities and programs operated by the department. The department may charge, under such contracts, fees for its services comme…

Sec. 1. The following definitions apply throughout this chapter: (1) "Offender patient" means an individual incarcerated at a facility operated by the department. (2) "Physician" means an individual holding a license to practice medicine in Indiana, issued by the medical licensin…

Sec. 2. (a) An individual committed to the department shall be immediately examined for communicable diseases and conditions by qualified medical personnel under the direct supervision of a physician. New admittees shall be segregated from the general population of a facility or …

Sec. 2.5. (a) As used in this section, "confirmatory test" means a laboratory test or a series of tests approved by the Indiana department of health and used in conjunction with a screening test to confirm or refute the results of the screening test for the human immunodeficiency…

Sec. 3.5. (a) The department may not authorize the payment of any money, the use of any state resources, or the payment of any federal money administered by the state to provide or facilitate sexual reassignment surgery to an offender patient. (b) This section does not apply to o…

definition; unused medications and supplies Sec. 4. (a) The department shall establish directives governing: (1) medical care to be provided to committed individuals, including treatment for intellectual disabilities, alcoholism, and drug addiction; (2) administration of medical …

Sec. 5. (a) This section does not apply to a person committed to the department who: (1) maintains a policy of insurance from a private company covering: (A) medical care; (B) dental care; (C) eye care; or (D) any other health care related service; or (2) is willing to pay for th…

Sec. 6. (a) This section: (1) does not apply in the case of a person who is subject to lawful detention by a county sheriff and is: (A) covered under private health coverage for health care services; or (B) willing to pay for the person's own health care services; (2) does not ap…

Sec. 7. (a) If the department or a county incurs medical care expenses in providing medical care to an inmate who is committed to the department and the medical care expenses are not reimbursed, the department or the county shall attempt to determine the amount, if any, of the me…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, the terms defined in IC 11-11-2-1 have the meanings set out in that section. As added by Acts 1979, P.L.120, SEC.4.

Sec. 2. (a) A confined person may send and receive, in any language, an unlimited amount of correspondence to or from any person, except as provided by subsection (b). (b) The department may require prior approval of correspondence between a confined person and another person if …

Sec. 4. (a) The department may read and examine correspondence sent to or from a confined person unless it is clearly marked as correspondence that is privileged under state or federal law. The department may not disclose the contents of the correspondence to another person unles…

Sec. 5. (a) The department shall provide a confined person, without cost, a reasonable amount of stationery, envelopes, and postage for transmission of correspondence, and shall make available for purchase additional stationery, envelopes, and postage. (b) A confined person may e…

Sec. 6. (a) A confined person may acquire and possess printed matter on any subject, from any source. However, unless a confined person or the sender receives prior approval from the warden for the confined person to receive a book, magazine, newspaper, or other periodical from a…

Sec. 7. The department may open all incoming and outgoing packages to inspect for and remove funds, contraband, or prohibited property. If the department removes contraband or prohibited property, it must notify the confined person of the removal. The notice must be in writing an…

Sec. 8. A confined person may receive visitors at reasonable times. The department may, for the purpose of maintaining the security of its facilities and programs, the safety of individuals, and administrative manageability, place reasonable restrictions on visits consistent with…

Sec. 9. (a) A person may be prohibited from visiting a confined person, or the visit may be restricted to an extent greater than allowed under section 8 of this chapter, if the department has reasonable grounds to believe that the visit would threaten the security of the facility…

Sec. 1. The department may: (1) establish and operate community corrections programs if these programs are not being provided at the local level; and (2) contract with any public or private agency approved by the commissioner, or any combination of those agencies, for the provisi…

Sec. 2. (a) The department may acquire premises and facilities for community corrections by purchase, lease, contract, or gift. (b) To obtain necessary funding for the establishment and operation of community corrections programs, or to provide these services through contractual …

Sec. 0.1. The amendments made to section 3 of this chapter by P.L.172-2001 apply to all parole determinations made after June 30, 2001, including a determination after June 30, 2001, to reconsider the release of an offender on parole whose parole was revoked before July 1, 2001. …

Sec. 1. This chapter applies only to criminal offenders. As added by Acts 1979, P.L.120, SEC.6.

Sec. 10. (a) Parole revocation hearings shall be conducted as follows: (1) A parolee who is confined due to an alleged violation of parole shall be afforded a parole revocation hearing within sixty (60) days after the parolee is made available to the department by a jail or state…

Sec. 11. (a) As used in this section, "Internet crime against a child" means a conviction for a violation of: (1) IC 35-42-4-4 (child exploitation); (2) IC 35-42-4-4(d) or IC 35-42-4-4(e) (possession of child sex abuse material) (before July 1, 2026), or a child sex abuse materia…

Sec. 2. (a) Release on parole and discharge of an offender sentenced for an offense under IC 35-50 shall be determined under IC 35-50-6. (b) Parole and discharge eligibility for offenders sentenced for offenses under laws other than IC 35-50 is as follows: (1) A person sentenced …

Sec. 3. (a) A person sentenced under IC 35-50 shall be released on parole or discharged from the person's term of imprisonment under IC 35-50 without a parole release hearing. (b) A person sentenced for an offense under laws other than IC 35-50 who is eligible for release on paro…

Sec. 4. (a) A condition to remaining on parole is that the parolee not commit a crime during the period of parole. (b) The parole board may also adopt, under IC 4-22-2, additional conditions to remaining on parole and require a parolee to satisfy one (1) or more of these conditio…

Sec. 5. (a) The period of parole for offenders sentenced for offenses under laws other than IC 35-50 is as follows: (1) A person released on parole from an indeterminate term of imprisonment remains on parole until the expiration date of the term of imprisonment, except that the …

Sec. 6. (a) The department shall supervise and assist persons on parole. Its duties in this regard include: (1) establishing methods and procedures for parole administration, including investigation, supervision, workloads, recordkeeping, and reporting; (2) providing information …

Sec. 7. (a) An employee of the department assigned to supervise and assist parolees may: (1) execute warrants issued by the parole board; (2) serve orders, subpoenas, and notices issued by the parole board; (3) conduct investigations necessary to the performance of the employee's…

Sec. 8. (a) If an employee of the department assigned to supervise and assist parolees believes that a parolee has violated a condition to remaining on parole, he may submit a written report of the violation to the parole board. After considering the report and making any further…

Sec. 9. (a) Upon the arrest and confinement of a parolee for an alleged violation of a condition to remaining on parole, an employee of the department (other than the employee who reported or investigated the alleged violation or who recommended revocation) shall hold a prelimina…

Sec. 1. The party states, desiring by common action fully to utilize and improve their institutional facilities and provide adequate programs for various types of offenders, declare that it is the policy of each of the party states to provide such facilities and programs on a bas…

Sec. 10. Any inmate confined pursuant to this compact shall be released within the territory of the sending state unless the inmate, and the sending and receiving states, shall agree upon release in some other place. The sending state shall bear the cost of such return to its ter…

Sec. 11. Any inmate confined pursuant to the terms of this compact shall have any and all rights to participate in and derive any benefits or incur or be relieved of any obligations or have such obligations modified or his status changed on account of any action or proceeding in …

Sec. 12. The parent, guardian, trustee, or other person or persons entitled under the laws of the sending state to act for, advise, or otherwise function with respect to any inmate shall not be deprived of or restricted in his exercise of any power in respect of any inmate confin…

Sec. 13. Any decision of the sending state in respect of any matter over which it retains jurisdiction pursuant to this compact shall be conclusive upon and not reviewable within the receiving state, but if at the time the sending state seeks to remove an inmate from an instituti…

Sec. 14. An inmate who escapes from an institution in which he is confined pursuant to this compact shall be deemed a fugitive from the sending state and from the state in which the institution is situated. In the case of an escape to a jurisdiction other than the sending or rece…

Sec. 15. Any state party to this compact may accept federal aid for use in connection with any institution or program, the use of which is or may be affected by this compact or any contract pursuant hereto and any inmate in a receiving state pursuant to this compact may participa…

Sec. 16. This compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law by any two (2) states. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding as to any other of said states upon si…

Sec. 17. This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the same and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the appropriate officials of all other party state…

Sec. 18. Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to abrogate or impair any agreement or other arrangement which this state may have with a nonparty state for the confinement, care, or training of inmates nor to repeal any other laws of this state authorizing the maki…

Sec. 19. The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed and shall be severable. If any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating state or of the United States or the applicability thereo…

Sec. 2. As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: "State" means a state of the United States; the United States of America; a territory or possession of the United States; the District of Columbia; or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. "Sending state" …

Sec. 20. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the carrying out of this compact in every particular and he may in his discretion delegate this authority. As added by Acts 1979, P.L.120, SEC.1.