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Legislators tour crowded women's prison
By Des Moines Register
Published: 10/11/2007

IOWA - Iowa legislators shook their heads Wednesday after touring the state women's prison, where 636 female convicts are living in facilities designed to hold 443.

Lawmakers found as many as six women living in a 10-foot by 14-foot room with bunk beds. In one aging housing unit, 88 women share two showers and two bathtubs and crowding forces the women to iron clothes in a hallway. Read more.

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