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 ...

MITCHELLVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Chet Culver and officials have broken ground on a $68 million expansion and renovation at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville. When the ...

MITCHELLVILLE, Iowa — Gov. Chet Culver and officials broke ground Thursday on a $68 million expansion and renovation at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville. The project ...

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 ...

DES MOINES - Iowa's prison population declined slightly during ... Clarinda, Fort Dodge, Mitchellville, Oakdale, Fort Madison, Mount Pleasant, Newton and Rockwell City at the end of the 2016 ...

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 ...

Some inmates are sleeping in temporary bunk beds at the overcrowded Mitchellville state ... Courtney chairs an Iowa Senate prison budget subcommittee. The prison has already been renovated and ...