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| Location | 2596 Girls School Road Indianapolis, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 39°48′03.4″N 86°17′24.5″W / 39.800944°N 86.290139°W |
| Status | open |
| Security class | mixed |
| Opened | 1873 |
| Managed by | Indiana Department of Corrections |
The Indiana Women's Prison was established in 1873 as the first adult female correctional facility in the country.[1] The original location of the prison was one mile (1.6 km) east of downtown Indianapolis. It has since moved to 2596 Girls School Road, former location of the Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility. As of 2005[update], it had an average daily population of 420 inmates,[2] most of whom are members of special-needs populations, such as geriatric, mentally ill, pregnant, and juveniles sentenced as adults. By the end of 2015, the population increased to 599 inmates.[3] Security levels range from medium to maximum.[2] The prison holds Indiana's only death row for women; however, it currently has no death row inmates.[4] The one woman under an Indiana death sentence, Debra Denise Brown, had her sentence commuted to 140 years imprisonment in 2018 and is being held in Ohio.[5]
- ^ Rafter, Nicole Hahn (1990). Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control. Transaction Publishers.
- ^ a b official Indiana Women’s Prison website
- ^ Offender population statistical report: calendar year 2015. Indiana Department of Correction, Division of Research and Technology.[1]
- ^ O'Shea, Kathleen A. (1999). Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900–1998. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 9780275959524.
- ^ "'We have no justice': Serial killer's death sentence canceled, to the shock of local victim's family". Archived from the original on December 30, 2018.