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1 day ago · May. 21, 2024 3:28 pm. The Anamosa State Penitentiary is pictured at night in 2008. (The Gazette) Remarking that it’s not feasible to jail the Iowa Department of Corrections for deliberately ...
13 hours ago · The penalty stems from a lawsuit that 13 prison inmates, then housed at Anamosa State Penitentiary, filed against the Iowa Department of Corrections in 2018. The inmates alleged the DOC was ...
13 hours ago · Iowa Capital Dispatch. Remarking that it’s not feasible to jail the Iowa Department of Corrections for deliberately violating a court order, a Polk County judge has fined the agency $1,500 for contempt of court. The penalty stems from a lawsuit that 13 prison inmates, then housed at Anamosa State Penitentiary, filed against the Iowa ...
5 days ago · A Wyoming inmate died Friday at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa, officials said. Scott Bailey was housed there following “a compassionate transfer” in 2014, the Wyoming ...
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4 days ago · The characterization of incarceration as payment of a “debt to society” had become common in the United States and Europe by the late 1800s. 27 In 1901, The Anamosa Prison Press, a newspaper written and published at the Iowa State Penitentiary, published a “Sunday school” lesson stating:
3 days ago · Iowa: Historic Iowa State Penitentiary (Fort Madison) There’s plenty of folklore and local legend surrounding the old Iowa State Penitentiary, which first began housing prisoners back in 1839.
1 day ago · Chris Ales, Iowa developer. Chuck Vandenberg, Pen City Current Editor. FORT MADISON – The saga of the James Block building in Fort Madison continues, but at a pace a bit slower than city officials were hoping for. At Tuesday’s Fort Madison City Council meeting, two area developers David Barker, of Barker Financial Group, and Chris Ales, a ...
