These letters are published and Craig is not reappointed as lessee. The Craig home, built with convict labor, still stands. 1845 Dorothea Dix is commissioned by the General Assembly to report on the institutions of the Commonwealth. Her report criticizes the lack of funding for educational and religious instruction of prisoners. The governor is empowered to remove any lessee who fails to comply with the law but politically no governor dares use this power.
Legislature authorizes the building of a chapel at the penitentiary.
A full time chaplain is not hired until 1883. An Indiana prison in Clarksville. Like Kentucky, the Indiana State Penitentiary also used the lessee system but ended use of lessees in 1856. In 1897 this institution is renamed the Indiana State Reformatory.