Articles Tagged: Anamosa State Penitentiary

Woman worked for the Iowa Department of Corrections at the Anamosa State Penitentiary from November 2023 through February 2025

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The second lawsuit filed by the mother of Lorena Schulte, the nurse who was killed by Anamosa prison inmates in 2021, has been dismissed by judge for failing to exhaust administrative remedies with the state and missing deadlines.

The Iowa dentist who was convicted in April of public intoxication after performing a root canal on a patient at the Anamosa State Penitentiary is still waiting for the Iowa Dental Board’s final action in the case.

Union leaders called on the state officials to provide more funding, better pay and more staffing as well as restore bargaining rights to correctional officers in the wake of the latest inmate attack at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.

The wife of an Anamosa correctional officer who was killed by two inmates in 2021 filed a lawsuit against prison officials and employees Tuesday in Jones County. The lawsuit asserts staffing shortages, equipment failures and lack of safety protocols and procedures led to the death of her husband and Lorena Schulte, a registered nurse.

According to a December police report, the prison warden at the Anamosa State Penitentiary said nurses reported a dentist serving the facility appeared to be intoxicated and had just completed a root canal on a patient.

A new lawsuit was filed this week by the mother of Lorena Schulte, nurse killed by inmates at Anamosa prison in 2021. The first petition was dismissed by court because of legal issues arising from estate being mistakenly closed after suit was filed.

Amended lawsuit filed last year by parents of Anamosa prison nurse says officials had been warned of lack of staff, safety issues, attempted escapes and nurses being held hostage before 2021 slayings.

A prisoner and three staff members at the Anamosa State Penitentiary were taken to the hospital Saturday night after being exposed to an “unknown substance” at the prison.

Iowa now is considering selling more than 4,000 acres of farmland surrounding Iowa prisons and other residential treatment facilities for an estimated $32.7 million. About one-third of the land a consultant recommended Iowa sell is near the Anamosa prison, and likely includes a farm on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Anamosa State Penitentiary, currently a medium/maximum security facility, will be changed to a strictly medium security facility, according to a Friday news release from the Iowa Department of Corrections.

Parents of registered nurse beaten with hammer by two prison inmates last year are suing the state, prison and former warden for negligence and wrongful death.

Iowa is donating 146 protective helmets and 714 ballistic vests to Ukraine. They are excess expired equipment from the Department of Public Safety and 18 other law enforcement agencies.

During debate of a $652 million appropriation for several departments covered by the justice systems appropriation, Democrats offered an amendment to address working conditions in Iowa prisons, where a correctional officer and nurse were murdered by inmates March 23, 2021.