IN DOC – Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility (PNJCF)

IN DOC – Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility (PNJCF) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 765-778-3778

This facility is for juvenile residents.

Established – 2000

Security Level – Maximum

Avg Daily Population – 188

Housing – Campus Style | Maximum security – housing for students unable to manage their behavior in the open campus.

Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility (PNJCF) is a maximum security, 391-bed, male juvenile facility located on 91 acres in Pendleton, IN operating under the auspices of the Indiana Department of Corrections. The facility provides extensive need-specific programs and services to the youth entrusted to our care.

Construction began in 1998 and the facility opened for business on July 5, 2000. The facility is a campus-like structure in the immediate vicinity of two adult correctional facilities.

The physical plant consists of three 96-bed general population housing complexes and one 48-bed admission/orientation complex, as well as a 48-bed secure housing unit. A services building comprises medical, food services, and laundry; also a housing area for special management and behaviorally challenged youths. An administrative building contains the staff wellness center, training, the visiting area, and staff offices. The large programs’ building accommodates the Providence Jr/Sr. High School which, in addition to its academic courses, includes several vocational trades’ classes such as Culinary Arts and Horticulture. It also includes the indoor recreational facilities and the chapel. There are outdoor recreational areas within the fenced perimeter, including baseball diamonds, volleyball courts, basketball courts, and a quarter-mile walking-running track. The perimeter has a single arched fence around it and is patrolled around the clock.

The facility is designated security level 1, maximum security, and houses adjudicated, delinquent male juveniles. The facility houses youth that are high-risk, assaultive, sexual offenders, those with serious health issues or histories of escape. Youth assigned here may have been sentenced from any of the 92 counties in the State of Indiana. Pendleton offers a sex offender program along with other treatment, vocational, academic, and volunteer strategies designed, in accordance with its mission, to facilitate a more successful habilitation program and, even more importantly, a successful community re-entry.

Pendleton Juvenile has a variety of programs for students to participate in; as well as individual counseling, treatment interventions, and treatment groups. The students participate in the groups based on the needs that are determined upon intake. These programs focus on addressing particular needs and risk areas for re-offending. The programs also teach pro-social skills to students improve positive outcomes for successful re-entry into the community as law-abiding, productive citizens. Process groups allow students to help each other discuss issues and practice skills. These groups are facilitated by counselors, the treatment supervisors, Chaplain, and qualified community volunteers.

Treatment Programs offered to students include:

• Boot Camp
• Indiana Sex Offender Management and Monitoring
• Why Try
• The Stay Sharp Substance Abuse Program
• Future Soldier Program
• Purposeful Living Units Serve (PLUS)

Additional Programs

• Making a Change (MAC) Unit
• Employability Skills
• Incentive/Reward Program
• Projected Program Completion Date
• Venture Scouts
• Increase the Peace
• Volunteer Programs
• Community Service
• Orientation Process
• Classification
• Daily Schedule
• Recycling Project
• Community Service
• Planned Parenthood
• Student Council

visitation Info

IN DOC – Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility – Visitation

Visitation is open to all students with no restrictions on the number of visits.  Approved visitors may visit on any regular visit day and time.  Approved visitors may visit as often as they want.  Example, a parent may visit on Saturday morning and afternoon and then again on Sunday and throughout the week at the regular visitation hours.

Visitation dates and times are:

Monday Evening:                    6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Tuesday Evening:                   6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Wednesday Evening              6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Thursday Evening:                  6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Friday Evening:                       6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M
Saturday Morning:                  8:30 A.M. to 11:00 A.M.
Saturday Afternoon                1:00 P.M. to 3:15 P.M.
Saturday Evening:                  6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Sunday Morning:                    8:30 A.M. to 11:00 A.M.
Sunday Afternoon:                  1:00 P.M. to 3:15 P.M.
Sunday Evening:                    6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.

If your student is a Youth Incarcerated as Adult please contact their counselor for visitation days and times.

• Visitation Form

Directions

Located in central Indiana, just east of Indianapolis on South SR 67, north of Hwy 70 and south of Hwy 69, at 9310 South SR 67, Pendleton, IN 46064.  You may click the link below to access the maps page to receive specific driving directions from your location.