Inside the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility

(5/5/09) -- This week on All Things Considered, student reporter Kim Rasmussen takes us inside the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility. Sitting just outside of Pendleton, Indiana across from the adult prison, the facilities is a maximum security prison for 12 to 21-year-old offenders. Last year, three hundred kids a day called this prison home.

Monday – General Population
Tuesday – PLUS Program
Wednesday – GROW Program
Thursday – Intensive Treatment Unit
Friday – Future Soldier Program

Kim Rasmussen, a native of Westmont, Illinois, is a telecommunications news option major at Ball State University.

 

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IPR'S Talk of Indiana Focuses on Swine Flu

(5/1/09) -- Indiana Public Radio held a special Swine Flu edition of Talk of Indiana on Friday, May 1. IPR News' Brian Beaver hosted the live program, and was joined by a panel of experts. Listeners were given the opportunity to ask questions.

The experts included:

• Dr. Dave Sheldon, Ball Memorial Hospital Physician

• Bill Gosnell, Delaware County Emergency Management Agency Director

• Dr. Donna Wilkins, Delaware County Health Officer

• Bob Jones, Delaware County Health Department Administrator

Click here to listen to the program.

The Star Press newspaper plans to webcast the program live on their Web site on Friday (a first-of-its-kind collaboration between IPR and the newspaper).