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| ISP’s minimum security offenders moved |
| By dailydem.com |
| Published: 10/16/2014 |
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(AP) — It wasn’t the move that Fort Madison has been anxiously anticipating, but residents of the historic prison town said they’ll take it. More than 170 minimum-security inmates at the John Bennett Unit at the Iowa State Penitentiary complex packed their belongings and boarded buses Tuesday. Their destination: 400 yards down the road to their new home, the Clinical Care Unit, built in 2001 at a cost of $26 million to house 200 of the most dangerous inmates with mental illness and behavioral problems. Prison workers have spent several weeks transforming it into a minimum-security environment, removing locks from secure doors and adding a larger visiting room. By Tuesday morning, inmates who used to sleep in open rooms filled with up to 50 bunks at John Bennett were moving into their small, mostly single cells with their own bathrooms. Read More. |
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