AUG. 7-13, 2026
Marion County leaders are considering options to reduce the costs associated with incarceration, but whether those efforts land in next year’s budget remains to be seen. Among the considerations is the complete removal of electronic monitoring fees — which would mean the county would lose about $2.5 million annually that is currently collected. Reporter Cameron Shaw explores the impact and the potential that the fee elimination will come to pass. Plus, reporter Maura Johnson explores the Hendricks County Probation Department's teen court, a jury experience that lets kids be the judge on how their peers move forward after breaking the rules.
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Criminal justice reform advocates await vote to end ankle monitor fees
Leaders are also considering eliminating fees associated with drug testing and granting inmates phone calls that are free or cost less.
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Hendricks County introduces teen court to address youth delinquency
For several decades, teen courts across the United States have proposed alternative ways to deal with juvenile misconduct.
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Rokita files lawsuit against Merrillville Town Council
The lawsuit seeks to compel full compliance with state law and impose civil penalties on the Council for its illegal actions, the Attorney General’s office said in a statement.
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Indiana correctional officer sentenced for mistreatment of inmate
A former high-ranking state correctional officer will spend time in federal prison after pleading guilty to using excessive force on a handcuffed inmate.
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Plainfield company accuses former associate of stealing $34.7M
MBC Group requested an ex parte temporary restraining order to freeze the defendants’ funds. The court granted it earlier this week.
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ICE expanding its arrests at airports to new targets, lawyers say
While Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had previously detained people with deportation orders at airports, the targeting of people who entered the country legally but now have expired visas is a new development.
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Judge Mario Garcia and Mary Kate Hetzel: Five tips from a magistrate judge
If we can’t use your proposed order for these routine motions, it creates an unnecessary inefficiency on both ends.
Read MoreJudge David J. Dreyer: Three examples of quiet judicial courage in Indiana courts
All of us lawyers and judges can remember times when we saw a judge, heard a judge or read a judge’s decision that showed real courage in uneasy circumstances.
Read MoreRoy Graham: When your clients stress, introduce them to objectivity
Fear lives in the future, in imagination. Law lives in the present, in structure.
Read MoreNicole Salet: Pitched for safety, ballot measure could nix constitutional right
SJR 1’s ballot language as it will appear in November as Public Question #1 scores poorly across various readability indexes.
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