Heritage Trail Correctional Facility

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Heritage Trail Correctional Facility
Location 501 W. Main Street
Plainfield, Indiana
Status open
Security class minimum
Capacity 827
Opened 2014
Managed by GEO Group

The Heritage Trail Correctional Facility is a private minimum-security state prison for men located in Plainfield, Hendricks County, Indiana, operated by the GEO Group under contract with the Indiana Department of Correction. [1]

Plainfield, Indiana Town in Indiana, United States

Plainfield is a town in Guilford, Liberty, and Washington townships, Hendricks County, Indiana, United States. The population was 27,631 at the 2010 census, and in 2017 the estimated population was 32,865.

Hendricks County, Indiana County in the United States

Hendricks County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 145,448. The county seat is Danville.

GEO Group American institutional facilities company

The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) is a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections, detention, and mental health treatment, stress control. It maintains facilities in North America, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. In 2015, the GEO Group's contracts with the U.S. federal government for operating prisons generated about 45% of its revenues. GEO Group facilities include prisons of all three security levels, immigration detention centers, minimum-security detention centers, and mental-health and residential-treatment facilities. It owns numerous facilities and, in other cases, operates state or federal facilities under contract.

Heritage Trail is operated at minimum security and focuses on inmates transitioning out of the system. Heritage Trail first opened in 2014, had an average capacity of 827 inmates through 2014. The facility stands on the site of the former state reformatory, the Indiana House of Refuge, first established in 1867.

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References

  1. "Heritage Trail (FTOP)". Indiana.gov. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

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