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IN DOC – Reception Diagnostic Center (Men) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 317-839-7727
This facility is for adult inmates.
The inmates housed at Reception Diagnostic-Men located at 737 Moon Rd in Plainfield, IN are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.
Established – 1971
Security Level – Intake
Avg Daily Population – 453
Housing – Celled Space
The Reception Diagnostic Center (RDC) is a maximum security intake facility for adult males sentenced to the Indiana Department of Correction. All adult males are received at RDC, classified and transferred to long-term facilities. This is with the exception of; those offenders sentenced to death bypass RDC and go directly to death row at Indiana State Prison and Juvenile offenders sentenced as adults are incarcerated at the Pendleton Juvenile facility until reaching the age of eighteen.
RDC was completed in two phases: the first phase consisted of 204 cells and was completed in 1971. Phase two was completed in 1993, which added 144 additional cells and administrative and operational space. RDC has a capacity/total of 695 offenders.
Due to the short duration of time spent at intake, programs are not available to offenders. During the intake process each offender is evaluated through interviews, reports and diagnostic tests. This evaluation forms the basis of the offenders' facility and program assignment.
While at RDC, every offender will receive:
- Complete medical examination
- Dental examination
- Psychological interview
- Lab work, including taking DNA samples and blood draws (to test for certain communicable diseases)
- TB testing
- Education testing (TABE – Test of Adult Basic Education) is also administered to offenders.
For a complete listing of the programs the IDOC offers, please visit the Programs page.
Reception Diagnostic Center is located in Plainfield Indiana. It isa maximum security institution due to the varying custody levels of the inmates who go through this facility for classification. The Reception Diagnostic Center is often the first stop for many inmates, where they will be evaluated and given a physical. The evaluations and interviews done by the staff will decide which correctional facility will best be able to accommodate the inmate’s treatment and security needs. Because it is a temporary facility for inmates programs are limited to dental, physical, educational, and psychological examinations, in addition to various lab work like DNA testing.
All adult offenders, and some juvenile offenders who were tried as adults are first sent to the Reception Diagnostic Center. The only offenders who get to bypass this first step are those who have been sentenced to death, they will go directly to death row at Indiana State Prison. This facility can house almost 700 offenders.
