Edinburgh Correctional Facility

Edinburgh Correctional Facility
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LocationCamp Atterbury, Edinburgh, Indiana, United States
Coordinates39°21′13″N 86°02′26″W / 39.353547°N 86.040428°W / 39.353547; -86.040428
StatusOperational
Security classMinimum
Capacity344
Managed byIndiana Department of Correction
Websitehttp://www.in.gov/idoc/2399.htm

Edinburgh Correctional Facility[1] is a minimum-security work camp located in the middle of Camp Atterbury,[2] a military training camp near Edinburgh, Indiana. The inmates work on the grounds of Camp Atterbury and on road crews with the Indiana Department of Transportation and park maintenance with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The maximum population, which has doubled in the past year, is 344 adult males.

To be able to get into Edinburgh, offenders must have a clean disciplinary record and have less than four years left in their sentence. Two escapes occurred in 2012. On May 1, 2012, a 32-year-old inmate being held on a two-year sentence for theft escaped and was apprehended the next day. Then, on June 18, 2012 an inmate serving a 10-year sentence for arson escaped during work duty and was caught the same day. One death has occurred. Riots have not occurred.

  1. ^ "IDOC: Home". in.gov. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  2. ^ "It works!". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-02. Retrieved 2016-12-04.