The following Indiana Statutes are brought to your attention. As a person desiring to enter a correctional facility, either as an employee or for other approved purposes, it is important to understand the content of these laws.
Indiana Code states:
(b) Except as provided in subsection (d), a person who, without the prior authorization of the person in charge of a penal facility or juvenile facility knowingly or intentionally:
(1) delivers, or carries into the penal facility or juvenile facility with intent to deliver, an article to an inmate or child of the facility;
(2) carries, or receives with intent to carry out of the penal facility or juvenile facility, an article from an inmate or child of the facility; or
(3) delivers, or carries to a worksite with intent to deliver, alcoholic beverages to an inmate or child of a jail work crew or community work crew; or
(4) possesses in or carries into a penal facility or a juvenile facility:
(A) a controlled substance; or
(B) a deadly weapon;
commits trafficking with an inmate, a class A misdemeanor.
(c) If the person who committed the offense under subsection (b) is an employee of:
( 1) the department of correction; or
(2) a penal facility;
and the article is a cigarette or tobacco product (as defined in Indiana Code), the court shall impose a mandatory five thousand dollar ($5,000) fine under Indiana Code, in addition to any term of imprisonment imposed under Indiana Code.
(d) The offense under subsection (b) is a Level 5 felony if the article is:
(1) a controlled substance; or
(2) a deadly weapon; or
(3) a cellular telephone or other wireless or cellular communications device.
A person who commits a Class A misdemeanor shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of not more than one (1) year; in addition, he/she may be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). A person who commits a Level 5 felony shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of four (4) years, with not more than four (4) years added for aggravating circumstances or not more than two (2) years subtracted for mitigating circumstances. In addition, he/she may be fined not more than ten
thousand dollars ($10,000).
It is a Class C infraction for a person to furnish an alcoholic beverage to a person confined in a penal facility. It is unlawful, also, for a person who has charge of a penal facility to knowingly permit a prisoner confined within his/her jurisdiction to receive an alcoholic beverage unless it has been prescribed by a physician as medicine for the prisoner or unless it is distributed as sacramental wine for a religious purpose by a minister, priest, or rabbi.
A person who commits a Class C infraction may be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($ 500).