Capacity
It holds approximately 2,125 male adult inmates under security that ranges from minimum to super-maximum in four sub-facilities. This state prison is best known for its super-maximum Secured Housing Unit (SHU) which drew national attention because of the 1997 publication Cold Storage, a report by Human Rights Watch .
Although forty-two percent of inmates at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility are people of color, minority employees make up only three percent of the staff. The proportion of employees of color is lower at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility than at any other prison for men in Indiana except Branchville. This stark disproportion is due to the prison’s location in a rural setting. The nearest largely populated area, Terre Haute, which has a fairly small Black and Hispanic population, is thirty miles from Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Most of the inmates, meanwhile, come from the state’s urban centers.
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