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| Work-release escapes increasing in Iowa |
| By qctimes.com- Erin Murphy |
| Published: 07/20/2015 |
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DES MOINES — After declining between 2005 and 2009, the number of prisoners who have escaped from Iowa correctional facilities while on work release has increased over the past four years and is on pace to establish a new high this year, according to state records. There were 305 work-release escapes in Iowa last year, the most since the state Department of Corrections started tracking the data in 2001. With 192 escapes through July 13 this year, the state is on pace for 361 escapes in 2015. The rate of escapes — the number of escapes relative to the number of prisoners in the program — also has risen over the past four years. The escape rate, calculated by dividing the number of incidents by the number of inmates served by work release, rose from 8.8 percent in 2011 to 14 percent in 2014. Read More. |
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