Deputy Corrections Director Brad Hier told The Des Moines Register on Monday that the Mitchellville project had all its funding authorized by the Iowa Legislature by 2011 so the $122 million ...

Nearly all of those 640 inmates will be housed at the expanded Mitchellville prison, which will have enough space for 888 inmates, allowing for continued growth of Iowa’s female prisoner population.

I love this,' says Avis Blair, 60, an inmate at Mitchellville, who is one of eight women helping to make the uniforms as an employee of Iowa Prison Industries, the work arm of the Iowa Department ...

State and local officials gathered in Mitchellville today for the groundbreaking on a new state prison for women. Patti Wachtendorf, the warden of the Iowa Corrections Institution for Women ...

to become warden of the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville. Waddle, who starts in her new role June 10, succeeds Sheryl Dahm, who became Mitchellville warden in 2017 ...

Dahm, the warden, has a long history at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. She was a counselor and then later the deputy warden. She grew up in Mitchellville, the small town where the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa Corrections Director John Baldwin says he has appointed Patti Wachtendorf as warden of the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women at Mitchellville. Wachtendorf is a ...

Iowa corrections officials are about to open a newly renovated and expanded women's prison in Mitchellville. The $68 million facility is designed to offer a more cheerful environment ...

MITCHELLVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a corrections officer at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women has been assaulted by an inmate. The Iowa Department of Corrections said in a news ...

MITCHELLVILLE, Iowa – Building a children’s garden at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women was the plan from day one. Seven years later, it’s finally coming to life. Julie Stevens, assistant ...

Mr. Vroegh started working for the Correctional Institute for Women, a prison in Mitchellville, Iowa, in 2009 as a registered nurse, which he described in the interview as a fulfilling job.