Indiana Code Title 11. Corrections § 11-11-6-2

Sec. 2. (a) The facilities of the department must comply with federal and state health, sanitation, safety, and fire laws applicable to dwellings, food establishments, eating facilities, and public buildings.

(b) Each department facility shall be inspected at least annually by:

who shall, within fifteen (15) days of the inspection, file a written report with the commissioner listing all unsafe, unsanitary, or unhealthy conditions within a facility that constitute a menace to the health, safety, and welfare of committed persons or department employees.  In determining whether conditions are unsafe, unsanitary, or unhealthy, the Indiana department of health and the state fire marshal shall consider the degree of overcrowding, the light, air, and space available to offenders within a facility, the size and arrangement of rooms and cells, the sanitary facilities, and the extent to which conditions in a facility endanger life or property.

(c) The commissioner shall correct all unsafe, unsanitary, or unhealthy conditions reported by the Indiana department of health or the state fire marshal with reasonable promptness.  Failure by the department to initiate and continue action to correct unsafe, unsanitary, or unhealthy conditions within thirty (30) days of receiving a report of those conditions from the Indiana department of health or the state fire marshal constitutes noncompliance with this subsection.  Upon such noncompliance, the commissioner shall submit to the reporting agency and the governor a written statement explaining:

(d) Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, the Indiana department of health and state fire marshal retain authority to correct unhealthy, unsanitary, or unsafe conditions within a facility as provided by law.