The Reception Diagnostic Center is a maximum-security intake facility for adult males sentenced to the Indiana Department of Correction. All adult males are received by the Reception Diagnostic Center, classified, and transferred to a facility within the state. This is with the exception of; those offenders sentenced to death bypass RDC and go directly to death row at Indiana State Prison and Juvenile offenders sentenced as adults are incarcerated at the Pendleton Juvenile facility until reaching the age of eighteen.