The New Castle Correctional opened in 2002 and has a capacity of 3,200 adult male inmates. In January 2006, the GEO Group, Inc. was awarded the contract to house minimum, medium and maximum, levels I – IV, adult male offenders for the Indiana Department of Corrections. The New Castle Correctional Facility is the only facility in the state of Indiana that houses maximum security, and acute mentally ill offenders in a 128-bed mental health unit.
All staff and visitors entering into the facility present identification, have their property checked, walk through a metal detector and sit in a BOSS chair for further screening. The visitation area is opposite of the Central Control. Visitation has a large area for contact visits, a non-contact area, attorney rooms and area for video visitation.
There is a separate visitation in the minimum custody unit. In the administration building there is a Receiving and Reception Unit, an education wing, vocational classrooms, medical clinic with infirmary, culinary classrooms, security offices, a chapel, commissary, laundry, kitchen and dining halls, a mental health unit with 128 beds, a Restrictive Housing Unit (RHU) with 52-beds, substance abuse classrooms and the sex offender monitoring and management offices and classrooms.
There are 12 other buildings within the fence which include 11 housing units and a recreation building. A number of the housing units serve specific populations as follows:
C-Unit: Facility food service workers
D-Unit: Scholars’ Dorm – offenders pursuing literacy or high school equivalency education
E-Unit: Facility long-term workers in skilled trades
G-Unit: PLUS (Purposeful Living Units Serve) – faith and character-based programming
H-Unit: Housing unit for military veterans
I-Unit: SHARE (Sober Housing Addiction Recovery Environment)
J-Unit: HOPE (Holistic Opportunity Progressive Environment)
K-Unit: Intake Unit – first 10-14 days of arrival and pre-release for last 60 days
The STAND Unit (Striving Towards a New Direction) is a maximum security dual-occupancy cell unit housing with the capacity to house 480 medium to maximum security offenders and includes a 32-bed single occupancy RHU. There are 256 beds dedicated to protective custody offenders and 192 beds dedicated to offenders who have had long-term restrictive housing status and goals to transition back into general population.
There is one single level 92-bed dormitory that is referred to as the Assisted Living Unit that houses the elderly and offenders with mobility or health issues.
Anyone incarcerated in Indiana is allowed to receive correspondence during their incarceration. In order for you to send mail to an inmate in Indiana their are a few things you'll need to know:
Indiana inmates are allowed to use telephones and can make outgoing collect calls. In addition, you can purchase prepaid collect calls through 
Indiana Department of Corrections allows you to send money to an inmate. Some important things to know about sending money to an inmate in Indiana:
In order to send money, visit, or send correspondence to an inmate in Indiana, you will need to know the inmate's DOC number. You can find the inmate's identification number, sentencing information, and much more by 
You must fill out an Indiana inmate visitors application and be approved before you can visit an inmate. To visit an inmate in Indiana you must do the following:
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