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	Iowa Department of Corrections - Employment Information : Institution Description
		The Clarinda Correctional Facility was established in 1980 as an adult male medium-security prison to serve primarily chemically dependent, mentally retarded and socially inadequate offenders.
		ICIW houses inmates in its dorm-like living units and celled housing.
		The Correctional Release Center currently houses inmates in a variety of low-secure living areas and is charged with preparing inmates of Iowa’s correctional institutions for parole or discharge.
	www.doc.state.ia.us /InstitutionDesc.asp (1559 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Iowa Correctional Institution for Women has a"special needs" unit for such inmates, who can be extremely violent, sometimes smearing blood and feces in their confinement areas, said Deputy Corrections Director Jeanette Bucklew.
		Hunter had been superintendent of the Iowa Women's Reformatory at Rockwell City in 1982 when it was converted to a state prison for men.
		She left Iowa in 1984 to accept a post with the National Institute of Corrections in Washington, D.C. Hunter died March 14.
	desmoinesregister.com /news/stories/c4788993/23971253.html (500 words)

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		Former department of corrections employees of this or other federal, state, or local jurisdiction or volunteers who have left employment voluntarily or been terminated as a result of accusation or investigation for misconduct within the last six months shall not be allowed to visit at the facility where they were employed or volunteered.
		Inmates/offenders under correctional supervision or detention will not be allowed to correspond with other inmates/offenders unless the individuals are immediate family and approved by the authority of the institution or both authorities in the case of correspondence between facilities.
		Institutional procedures shall be established for the inmate to reserve time in a designated controlled area and obtain the material for reading during specified times.
	inmateassistance.com /institution_administration[1].doc (14250 words)

	HIATUS- Home At Last... Achieving Successful Reentry for Ex-Offenders
		Iowa also has failed to address the needs of incarcerated individuals’ children and to prepare these children and their families for the ex-offender’s return to their communities.
		Iowa needs to develop programs and policies that improve the opportunities for ex-offenders to return to their communities with meaningful community and family roles.
		The number of women incarcerated for drug-related crimes as of mid 2001 was 192, which constituted 30% of the total female inmate population.
	students.law.drake.edu /hiatus/commentary/HomeAtLast.html (3031 words)

	Iowa Department of Administrative Services (DAS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Iowa Correctional Institution for Women - Mitchellville, Iowa (Polk County)
		Iowa Medical and Classification Center is the departments reception center for all new commitments to the correctional system.
		The Mission of Iowa State Penitentiary is to protect the public and staff by confining inmates in a safe, secure and humane environment consistent with their custody needs and by challenging inmates to be responsible individuals.
	das.hre.iowa.gov /open_class_nurse.html (1838 words)

	Iowa Commission on the Status of Women
		The breadth of Corning's leadership is remarkable: children and families benefited when, as a state senator, she successfully introduced Iowa's first measure outlawing physical punishment in schools and when her hotly debated bill to extend the statute of limitations on sexual abuse passed, paving the way for later extensions.
		For the rights and well-being of women, she chaired Iowa's first STOP Violence Against Women Coordinating Council; chaired the 75th Anniversary of Woman Suffrage; and after leaving public office, led campaigns to raise funds for the chapel at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women.
		In education she served the Cedar Falls School Board for 11 years-nine as president, helped develop Iowa Gifted and Talented (was state president, helped author the first state plan), led a workplace literacy project for the state, served on University of Northern Iowa boards, and established the UNI Joy Cole Corning Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series.
	www.state.ia.us /government/dhr/sw/hall_fame/iafame/iafame-corning.html (300 words)

	Iowa Correctional Institution For Women
		The Iowa Department of Corrections will be recognized as a national leader in providing a fully integrated corrections system.
		We will be known as an organization that is driven by a strong value system that recognizes the intrinsic worth of all human beings, respects and recognizes the needs of victims, and holds the belief that offenders can change their lives.
		ICIW has been Iowa's main women's prison since 1982.
	www.volunteersolutions.org /uwoci/org/8480183-printer.html (488 words)

	Engaging the Community - Education at Iowa - The University of Iowa College of Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Women on the Inside was funded by Humanities Iowa and administered with support from the University of Iowa.
		It was a two year program with women in prison where they read the works of well-known women writers, attended workshops with visiting authors, and then wrote stories of their own.
		All the participants were women at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women.
	www.education.uiowa.edu /tv/engaging/williams.htm (128 words)

	Iowa Women's Foundation Grant Recipients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Informed Choices: Entrepreneurship for Women and Girls with Disabilities, a program of The Abilities Fund serves a population that the Iowa Women’s Foundation had not yet funded prior to this grant cycle.
		Although young women at Metro can access these services at Waypoint, information indicates that high school women are less likely to seek services outside of their school environment.
		Additionally, the CSADV will partner with women in the community to organize a Latina Leadership Conference to bring together women from the region and across the state to learn to effectively organize to address the issues of violence and oppression of women in their communities.
	www.iawf.org /grantrec.htm (3211 words)

	Welcome to Institute of Social and Economic Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		ISED, the Iowa Department of Corrections, and the Iowa Women’s Enterprise Center have collaborated to bring entrepreneurial training to women incarcerated at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellvile, Iowa.
		With their criminal records, they have difficulty finding traditional employment and are often forced to take positions with low salaries, no benefits and no opportunity to escape the cycle of poverty that often led to their original crimes.
		With few economic opportunities and little hope, many of these women re-offend and return to prison, creating even greater barriers for themselves and further damaging their families, children, and communities.
	www.ised.org /economicdevelopment/WomenInCorrections.asp (294 words)

	Sample Programs: Health
		ISED collaborates with the Iowa Women’s Enterprise Center and the Iowa Department of Corrections to provide entrepreneurial training to women in prison.
		The Microenterprise Training for Women in Corrections focuses on helping the women to use their talents and skills to start small businesses, obtain quality jobs, and build financial assets to help them become economically independent and successful members of the community.
		The goal of the Microenterprise Training for Women in Corrections is to strengthen the social and economic well being of individuals and communities.
	www.reentrymediaoutreach.org /sp_education_ised.htm (732 words)

	Iowa Department of Administrative Services (DAS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		DUTIES: Under immediate to general supervision, Correctional Officers perform security work dealing with adult male and female inmates who are incarcerated at state correctional institutions of the Iowa Department of Corrections.
		Entry level Correctional Officers in some positions may be required to possess and maintain a valid driver's license or a commercial driver's license and have the license available during working hours.
		The transfer process allows you to be considered for employment as a Correctional Officer without having to complete the usual testing process.
	das.hre.iowa.gov /open_class_co.html (570 words)

	Untitled Document
		While the inmate population at the Newton Correctional Facility has risen over the past three years, staffing has decreased, said Jerry Jones, president of Local 451 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers.
		"It's pretty systematic that in the institutions in Iowa, they are short-staffed and full to the brim," he said.
		Another informational picket is in the works for the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women at Mitchellville, Jones said.
	www.wcfcourier.com /articles/2004/11/15/news/breaking_news/6da75125581b6d9c86256f4d007aa9a4.prt (301 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Iowa Inmate Denied Medication to Control Mental Illness
		DES MOINES--The Iowa Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit on behalf of a schizophrenic prisoner who was punished for misbehavior that occurred after prison officials withheld medications that would have controlled her illness.
		By September 2000, Pyburn was well enough to return to the disciplinary detention unit at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville to complete sanctions that had been imposed on her when she had been actively mentally ill.
		The defendants in the case are: Joshua Nnanji, M.D., psychologist Pat Millen, IWCI staff supervisor Paul Rode, ICIW Warden Diann Wilder-Tomlinson, and the Iowa Department of Corrections.
	www.aclu.org /prison/medical/14628prs20020613.html (557 words)

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		The mission of the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) is to end violence in intimate relationships.
		The mission of the Iowa Department For The Blind is to work with blind Iowans in support of their aspirations to participate fully, productively and equally as first class citizens within society.
		The Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association (IFAPA) recruits and retains quality foster and adoptive families by promoting support, training and public awareness in conjunction with other public and private organizations.
	www.volunteersolutions.org /org/dir-i-16.html (729 words)

	Mother's Day in the Holding Tank
		In it, hundreds of women deemed unfit to live in society joke, work, cry, bond, fight and carry on their daily lives.
		The fact that the women had mostly never acted before was the least of Sivi’s challenges.
		It comes from seeing women who were “terrified of their own voices” finding the power to dazzle audiences.
	www.angelfire.com /in2/mywork/DMreview.html (1891 words)

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		Congressional appropriations including Iowa’s allotment of $32.4 million annually, a State matching funds requirement of 25.37%, the option of participant cost sharing, and funding available October 1, 1997, with the ability to carry forward funds for three years.
		Approved the split of the $450,000 to be received from FY 1998 reversions as follows: $175,000 to both the University of Iowa and Iowa State University, $90,000 to the University of Northern Iowa, and $5,000 to both the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School and the Iowa School for the Deaf.
		The rent actually charged by the Institution as of June 30, 1997, was approximately 30% lower than the fair market value determined in FY 1993.
	staffweb.legis.state.ia.us /lfb/fupdate/1998/FU730A.DOC (10272 words)

	Fort Madison Daily Democrat: Archives
		Lynn Walding, administrator of the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, said there were some start-up problems with the inmate work crews.
		The inmates are from the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women at Mitchellville.
		Most Iowa prison inmates are assigned a job, ranging from positions with private companies or prison industries to working in a prison kitchen or performing janitorial chores at the Statehouse complex.
	www.dailydem.com /articles/2004/06/21/news/news3.txt (421 words)

	Iowa Department of Corrections - Offender Information
		While the information is believed to be accurate, the Iowa Department of Corrections makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information.
		Further the Iowa Department of Corrections assumes no legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any of the information provided.
		Information is updated on a weekly basis, but may change quickly.
	www.doc.state.ia.us /OffenderInfo.asp (92 words)

	Offenburger.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		There were 84 bicyclists from all over Iowa, as well as from Nebraska and Georgia, who who came to Greene County, Iowa, on June 3 and took part in one of the most unusual cycling events anywhere.
		These women are brave to overcome their fears and perform in front of other inmates — and in front of some of us outsiders who have read of their crimes over our morning coffee.
		These women have lost their right to privacy, and still as actresses, they expose themselves to the audience’s judgment.
	www.offenburger.com /bwpaper.asp?link=20040607 (2121 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Iowa will use its funds to build a 200-bed unit at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women.
		Iowa will also add 117 beds at the Fort Des Moines Work Release Facility, which will replace an existing 40-bed facility and create additional space for violent offenders.
		Iowa is also considering adding a special needs facility to the state penitentiary in Fort Madison and adding additional bed space to the Iowa Medical and Classification Center at Oakdale to move all mentally and medically challenged inmates to one facility, freeing bed space for additional violent offenders.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /ocom/rsatvoi/98rsatia.htm (147 words)

	GazetteOnline - Phyllis Nelson paroled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Nelson, 59, of Iowa City, has been locked up at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville since March 2003 when she was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of her husband, Dr. Richard Nelson, in his Cedar Rapids apartment.
		A prominent pediatrician and dean of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Richard Nelson died of a single stab wound to the heart on the morning of Dec. 12, 2001.
		None of Nelson's family remains in Iowa which is why she is being paroled to Illinois.
	www.gazetteonline.com /2006/07/05/Home/News/NELSON.htm (331 words)

	US State DOC Correctional Patch (G-O)
		US State DOC Correctional Patch (G-O) Click on the state flag for the link to their Department of Corrections.
		Missouri DOC - The institution (Jefferson City) tab was worn on the right sleeve until they went to the brown uniform and a new change in patches.
		The Department of Corrections tab is actually the first issue and was worn on the left sleeve.
	www.correctional-patches.com /statedoc_g-o.html (2066 words)

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		The fact that this remarkable partnership between two distinct institutions has not only worked, but thrived, is a testament to his leadership.
		The two institutions both serve Licking, Knox and Coshocton counties and share the same top administrator as well as a 176-acre campus, but are separate entities with distinct missions.
		From 1989 to 1993, she was a professor of education at the University of Northern Iowa and the first director of the Regents Center for Early Developmental Education, a statewide, multi- university center to research and develop early childhood educational programs for homeless and other at-risk populations.
	www.osu.edu /osu/newsrel/Archive/99-04-27_Newark_Campus_President_Named.html (852 words)

	Ised:About ISED: Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The State of Iowa selected ISED to administer the Self-Employment Investment Demonstration (SEID) program in Eastern Iowa to test self-employment as a strategy to help welfare recipients achieve economic self-sufficiency.
		Microenterprise development is embraced as a welfare-to-work strategy in Iowa as ISED receives a contract with the Iowa Department of Human Services to provide microenterprise development services to welfare recipients statewide.
		ISED, the Iowa Women’s Enterprise Center and Iowa Department of Corrections collaborate to bring entrepreneurial training to women incarcerated at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women at Mitchellville, Iowa.
	www.ised.org /AboutISED/Highlights.asp (590 words)

	A piano teacher in an Iowa prison - Metro
		The former substitute teacher finds solace in her music, shared with fellow inmates at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville, her lawyer says.
		On June 9, the Iowa Board of Parole agreed to interview the 59-year-old for possible early release three years after her voluntary manslaughter conviction for stabbing her husband, a top UI medical-school dean.
		The Iowa Department of Corrections deemed her "unlikely to re-offend" shortly after she began her sentence.
	www.dailyiowan.com /news/2006/06/12/Metro/A.Piano.Teacher.In.An.Iowa.Prison-2043513.shtml (559 words)

	Office of Governor Tom Vilsack and Lt. Governor Sally Pederson
		A similar value-based treatment program at the Newton Correctional Facility is the subject of a constitutional challenge currently before the U.S. District Court.
		In order to avoid expansion of potential liability, state appropriations for value-based treatment programming should not be expanded to other correctional institutions until the courts resolve this issue.
		Certified mentoring programs in Iowa are required to meet standards of effective practice, and I expect the same of this program.
	www.governor.state.ia.us /legislation/2004/veto/05_17_04_veto_HF2577.html (588 words)

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