State prison officials are evaluating the cost of installing air conditioning in the housing units at the state prison in Mount Pleasant. During this month’s Board of Corrections meeting, Iowa Department of Corrections financial manager Steve Dick said the...
State officials are considering paying a private company to provide health care services in Iowa prisons. The agency has been facing staffing shortages, but a top administrator in the Iowa Department of Corrections said no final decisions have been made. Todd Copley...
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...
