Last year, the Iowa Department of Corrections and NewBoCo, in Cedar Rapids, started a coding program for women at the prison, funded by a $175,000 grant from the Google Impact Challenge. The pilot project is modeled after NewBoCo’s Delta V program, a 20-week boot camp where individuals with no technical background become Full Stack JavaScript developers.
The leader of the Iowa Board of Parole wants to eliminate crowding at Iowa’s nine prisons over the next two years.
Leo Alan Ray, 34, convicted of conspiracy to commit a felony, willful injury causing serious injury, and second-degree robbery in Linn County, failed to report to the minimum-security Lary A. Nelson Residential Center in Cedar Rapids as required on Friday, teh Iowa Department of Corrections said Saturday.
The identity of the inmate has not been released.
The Iowa Board of Corrections has named new wardens for prisons in Fort Madison, Newton and Mount Pleasant.
The Iowa Department of Corrections has fired two nurses at the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison after they incorrectly gave 77 offenders overdoses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in April.
The Iowa Department of Corrections will resume in-person visits for incarcerated individuals in early July, provided the offender is vaccinated against COVID-19.
Kris Karberg has been deputy warden at the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield, S.D., for three years. In his 28-year career in security, he spent 10 years providing private security overseas in Southwest Asia, Belize and Afghanistan, where he was a contractor for the U.S. State Department.
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Iowa will hire an outside firm to conduct a review of its prisons, following the killings of two employees by …
The Iowa Department of Corrections is seeking an outside vendor to review all parts of the prison system, from staffing and inmate classification to the safety of buildings where more than 8,000 offenders are housed.
‘I am beside myself when I go in a cellblock that has 300 offenders and two prison guards’
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