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Mitchellville women's prison expanding
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 project is completed in January 2013, the prison will have 888 beds. The prison's current capacity is 445, but 564 inmates were housed there as of the groundbreaking on Thursday.
Warden Patti Wachtendorf says that when the renovation is complete, the Mitchellville facility will be the only prison that houses women in Iowa. Two other prisons in Mount Pleasant and Oakdale currently house female inmates.
Officials break ground on an expansion and renovation project at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville Thursday, July 15, 2010. (Image via Governor's Office)
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