A federal judge has ordered the Indiana Department of Correction to provide a transgender inmate with gender-affirming surgery.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office’s request for an additional $11 million for its 2025 budget represents more than an 8% increase from the previous year.

Martin University hosted a job fair Thursday to help formerly incarcerated people find employment. The university partnered with the Indiana Department of Corrections to provide more than 45 resource vendors to people reentering the workforce after incarceration.

After 15 years with no executions of the eight men on Indiana’s death row, Indiana’s top elected officials filed with the Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday to schedule an execution date for Fort Wayne’s Joseph Corcoran. He was convicted of murdering four people in 1997.

The family of a man who died of stab wounds in a northern Indiana prison in 2021 filed a multi-million dollar wrongful death lawsuit against several high-ranking officials at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.

The governors office announced Wednesday that Department of Correction Commissioner Rob Carter will step down next month.

Responders with the Pendleton Fire Department and the Indiana Department of Correction were dispatched to the prison for the fire and contained the blaze quickly, Madison County Sheriff Scott Mellinger said.

The reversal comes as a lack of a local mental health and addiction treatment resources have left county jails overcrowded.

The Indiana House votes to effectively ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates, sending it to the Senate. Indiana hits one year since it fully vaccinated its first resident. And Indiana surpassed 1.5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, with some early signs of slowing.

In early January, fewer than 100 incarcerated people had the virus. As of Wednesday, the Indiana Department of Correction reported 571 positive cases.