IN DOC – LaPorte Juvenile Correctional Facility (LPJCF)

IN DOC – LaPorte Juvenile Correctional Facility (LPJCF) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 219-326-9898

This facility is for juvenile residents.

Established – 2017

Security Level – Maximum

Avg Daily Population – 40

Housing – Dormitories

LaPorte Juvenile Correctional Facility (LPJCF) provides a safe, supportive environment for committed female youth and encourages the development of responsible young women. LPJCF is a maximum security juvenile correctional facility that has the ability to house 62 female youth. LaPorte Juvenile is the only female correctional facility in Indiana and the only reception and diagnostic center for newly committed female youth.

LPJCF offers a number of programs that address the needs of the youth population, including Voices, Growing Great Girls, Cage Your Rage for Women, Addiction Recovery Services, WHY Try and other programs. There are also a number of volunteer programs for the youth to participate in.

Juvenile Services

03-02-101 Code of Conduct for Juvenile Offenders

03-02-103 The Reporting, Investigation and Disposition of Child Abuse and Neglect

03-02-105 Student Grievance Process

03-02-110 Youth Visitation

Allen’s Bible Study

Cage Your Rage for Women: Cage Your Rage for Women is an anger management workbook specifically targeted to women. Chapters include: Anger Has Many Faces; Feelings: All is Not as it Seems; Shame, Guilt and Embarrassment; Managing Anger; Tools that Help: Timeouts and Anger Logs; and Other Anger Management Skills. The exercises are intended for women working with their counselors either individually or in a group setting. Nevertheless, the workbook’s focus on women’s anger issues suggests that its content can be helpful to all women, not just those in counseling with a trained professional.

Criminal and Addictive Thinking: This group utilizes a series of workbooks to help students realize the correlation between their thinking and the resulting destructive behaviors and those criminal offenses do not just happen. Three objectives to criminal and addictive thinking are taught. Thinking greatly influences feelings and behavior; How to recognize, monitor and change distorted thinking patterns and healthier ways of relating to others.

Employability Skills: This program prepares youth for the process of obtaining employment. The program will discuss goal setting, financial planning, employment resources, job conduct, interviewing, applications, resume development and professional appearance.

Finally Free Prison Ministry

Girls Inc develops research-based informal education programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical, intellectual and emotional challenges. Major programs address math and science education, pregnancy and drug abuse prevention, media literacy, economic literacy, adolescent health, violence prevention, and sports participation.

Grief and Loss: This group addresses the concerns and pain of those students who have experienced painful loss. Grief and Loss group allows students to define their own personal losses and encourages them to face the loss, identify their personal strengths and to set goals and integrate these experiences into life changes that are both meaningful and hopeful.

Habitat for Humanity Restore

Healthy Relationships: this program focuses on different types of relationships our students have with the people around them such as parents, siblings, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, etc. the group explains how to deal with these relationships and the issues that may arise from having a relationship with a certain person or group and how to better understand their point of view.

Relapse Prevention Group: one hour per week, open-ended group where students discuss relapse prevention skills and review progress on the development of their Relapse Prevention and Career plans.

Sisterhood Christian Drama Ministry

St. John’s Bible Study

Substance Abuse Treatment Group: This group is based on cognitive, behavioral, and learning theory with the focus on skill building, developing a reliable support system, and satisfactory completion of a relapse prevention.

Suicide Prevention

VOICES: Voices is a female-specific program of self-discovery and empowerment. It encourages girls to seek and celebrate their “true selves” by giving them a safe space, encouragement, structure, and support to embrace their important journey of self-discovery. The focus is on issues that are important in the lives of adolescent girls from modules about self and connection with others to exploring healthy living and the journey ahead. The curriculum uses a variety of therapeutic approaches, including psycho-educational, cognitive-behavioral, expressive arts and relational theory.

Why Try: The WhyTry Program provides simple, hands-on solutions for:
• Dropout prevention
• Violence prevention
• Drug and alcohol prevention
• Truancy reduction
• Failure reduction
• Anti-bullying worksheets

YES Program

Yoga

visitation Info

IN DOC – LaPorte Juvenile Correctional Facility (LPJCF) – Visitation

Saturday, Sunday, and/or state holidays:  
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday and non-holidays
Regular visitation hours 3:30 p.m. – 7:30 p. m. 
School hours 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.  (School hour visits must be pre-authorized with Counselor approval)

Each Visit will be for a 2-hour time limit.  Extended time visits must be pre-authorized and scheduled through the Counselor. 
Parent tours of the facility are now available upon request.  They must be scheduled through the student’s counselor.

Video Visitation is also available through JPAY at this facility. To use JPAY you must be on the offender's approved visitation list.

Students may also receive visits on State-observed holidays:

Good Friday  
Primary Election Day 
Memorial Day  
Independence Day 
Labor Day  
Columbus Day 
General Election Day 
Veterans’ Day  
Thanksgiving Day 
Lincoln’s Birthday (Day after Thanksgiving)
Christmas Day  
Washington’s Birthday (Day after Christmas)

• Parent Packet

Directions

From the north, take Interstate 65 south to exit 41 for IN-250 and turn left.  Continue on IN-250 until reaching IN-7.  Turn right and go 6 miles until North Gate Road and turn right.  From there, turn left at East Outer Drive, take the first right onto North Lane, and then take the first left onto 4th Street.