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Panel supports proposal to build two prisons
By The Gazette
Published: 11/15/2007

IOWA - A legislative study panel on Wednesday recommended lawmakers proceed next session with nearly $240 million in upgrades to Iowa's prisons, including replacing the women's prison in Mitchellville and the Fort Madison penitentiary.

Committee members voted 7-2 to seek approval of plans to build a $121.2 million maximum-security prison on a prison farm near Fort Madison, to spend $51.4 million to replace the women's prison at Mitchellville and to add beds at that location. Read more.

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