Wabash Valley Correctional Facility is a prison situated south of
Terre Haute
Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a ...
, located in
Haddon Township, Sullivan County, just north of
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ...
,
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
.
The Wabash Valley Correctional Facility received American Correctional Association (ACA) re-accreditation at the 145th Congress of Corrections August 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Special Needs Unit (SNU)
The SNU is a mental health treatment unit designed to house Seriously Mentally Ill offenders who have been designated as needing intensive mental health treatment and programming within the Indiana Department of Correction. Offender participants may be transferred into the unit from any other facility in the state. When participants arrive, they are assessed and placed in the program's phase system. Phase three offenders attend all programming and meals within the unit, but do attend recreation in the gym. Phase four offenders additionally go outside of the unit for special programs and meals. Phase five offenders can attend programming outside the unit and attend meals and recreation with WVCF PLUS program participants.
On television
* The facility has been shown on the
MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...
series ''
Lockup: Extended Stay'' and ''
Young Kids, Hard Time {{italic title
''Young Kids, Hard Time'' is an American MSNBC TV show which premiered November 20, 2011.
The show is about children age 12 to 17 incarcerated as adults in the American prison system. These children have all been tried as an adult. T ...
''.
References
Sources
# "Carlisle prison doors open to smiling faces." ''Tribune-Star''. 30 October 1992.
# "Prison welcomes first 'residents'". ''Tribune-Star''. 11 December 1992.
External links
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{{State prisons in Indiana
Prisons in Indiana
Buildings and structures in Sullivan County, Indiana
1992 establishments in Indiana