Iowa Department of Corrections director Beth Skinner says the recidivism rate among individuals who’ve been released from prison has dropped for a third straight year — meaning there’s a decline in the number of people violating the terms of their...
Starting today, the letters, cards and photos mailed to inmates in Iowa prisons will be digitized by a company in Las Vegas and later destroyed. Iowa Department of Corrections spokesman Nick Crawford said the mail will be scanned, printed in color and just the copies...
Republican legislators have sent the governor a budget plan for the Iowa’s justice system and it includes a $7 million spending increase for the state’s prisons. Democrats like Representative Todd Prichard of Charles City say the murders of two Anamosa...
State officials plan to set up a booth at the Iowa State Fair to recruit people to work in Iowa’s prison system. Iowa Department of Corrections director Beth Skinner recently hired a recruitment and retention officer for the prison system. “We’re...
Senate Republicans are proposing a more than $6 million increase in next year’s budget for the Iowa Department of Corrections, but that is $14 million dollars below the recommendation from Republicans in the House. Danny Homan, president of the union that...
