Title XVI, CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE (Ch. 687 - 916)

1. A department of corrections survivor benefits fund is established in the state treasury under the control of the department. The fund shall consist of moneys transferred to the fund pursuant to section 99G.39 and any other moneys appropriated to or deposited in the fund. Money…

The director or director’s designee shall visit and inspect the institutions under the director’s control, and investigate the financial condition and management of the institutions at least once in six months. 83 Acts, ch 96, §28, 159 CS83, §217A.41 85 Acts, ch 21, §54 CS85, §24…

The director may investigate charges of abuse, neglect or mismanagement on the part of any officer or employee of any public or private institution subject to the director’s supervision or control. 83 Acts, ch 96, §29, 159 CS83, §217A.42 85 Acts, ch 21, §54 CS85, §246.402 C93, §9…

1. The director may exercise the following powers in an investigation: a. Summon and compel the attendance of witnesses. b. Examine the witnesses under oath, which the director may administer. c. Have access to all books, papers, and property material to the investigation. d. Ord…

If a person fails or refuses to obey the orders of the director issued under section 904.403 , or fails or refuses to give or produce evidence when required, the director shall petition the district court in the county where the offense occurs for an order of contempt and the cou…

The director shall cause the testimony taken at the investigation to be recorded. The recording of the testimony shall not be transcribed unless the testimony is part of a case that is appealed or an interested party requests a transcript and pays the cost of preparing the transc…

The superintendent of each institution shall, within ten days after the commitment or entrance of a person to the institution, cause a true copy of the person’s entrance record to be made and forwarded to the director. When an inmate leaves, is discharged, transferred, or dies in…

The superintendent or the district director, as applicable, shall within three days of the commitment or entrance of a person at the institution notify the director if there is any question as to the propriety of the commitment or detention of any person received at the instituti…

1. a. The director may transfer at the expense of the department an inmate of one institution to another institution under the director’s control if the director is satisfied that the transfer is in the best interests of the institutions or inmates. b. The director may transfer a…

Inmates sentenced for any term by any court of the United States may be received by the superintendent of a state correctional institution and kept there in pursuance of their sentences. The director may transfer inmates at state correctional institutions to the federal bureau of…

1. Inmates who disobey the disciplinary rules of the institution to which they are committed shall be punished by the imposition of the penalties prescribed in the disciplinary rules, according to the following guidelines: a. To ensure that sanctions are imposed only at such time…

1. Except as provided for by the director by rule, it is unlawful for an inmate of one of the penal or correctional facilities under the department to possess United States or foreign currency in the penal or correctional facility. 2. The director shall adopt rules as to circumst…

An inmate of a state correctional institution who escapes from it may be arrested and returned to the institution, by an officer or employee of a state correctional institution without any other authority than this chapter , and by any peace officer or other person on the request…

If a person escapes from a state correctional institution including but not limited to those institutions listed in section 904.102 , all necessary and legal expenses incurred by that person while absent from the state institution shall be paid out of any moneys in the state trea…

1. The superintendent of each institution shall receive and care for any property an inmate may possess on the inmate’s person upon entering the institution, and on the discharge of the inmate, return the property to the inmate or the inmate’s legal representatives, unless the pr…

The department is authorized to establish and maintain an inmate telephone fund for the deposit of moneys received for inmate telephone calls. All funds deposited in this fund shall be used for the benefit of inmates. The director shall adopt rules providing for the disbursement …

1. Money from property converted pursuant to section 904.508 shall be transmitted to the treasurer of state as soon after one year after the death of the inmate as practicable. A complete permanent record of the property, showing by whom and with whom it was left, its amount when…

The superintendent receiving a person committed to any of the institutions shall ask the person to state the person’s religious preference, shall enter the stated preference in a book kept for that purpose, and shall request that the person sign the entry. If the person is a mino…

Any inmate, during the time of detention, shall be allowed for at least one hour on each Sunday or other holy day or in times of extreme sickness, and at other suitable and reasonable times consistent with proper discipline in the institution, to receive spiritual advice, instruc…

Members of the executive council, the attorney general, the lieutenant governor, members of the general assembly, judges of the supreme and district court and court of appeals, judicial magistrates, county attorneys, and persons ordained or designated as regular leaders of a reli…

1. a. The department of corrections shall establish in each judicial district a continuum of programming for the supervision and treatment of offenders convicted of violating chapter 321J who are sentenced to the custody of the director. The continuum shall include a range of san…

1. A person committed to an institution under the control of the department who bites another person, who causes an exchange of bodily fluids with another person, or who causes any bodily secretion to be cast upon another person, shall submit to the withdrawal of a bodily specime…

The provisions of chapter 141A relating to knowledge and consent do not apply to persons committed to the custody of the department. The department may provide for medically acceptable procedures to inform employees, visitors, and persons committed to the department of possible i…

1. Effective July 1, 1997, a person who is committed to the custody of the director of the department of corrections may be evaluated for purposes of determining the level of achievement in the basic skills of arithmetic, the communicative arts of reading, writing, grammar, and s…

1. The director shall keep the following record of every person committed to any of the department’s institutions: Name, residence, sex, age, place of birth, occupation, civil condition, date of entrance or commitment, date of discharge, whether a discharge is final, condition of…

1. The following information regarding individuals receiving or who have received services from the department or from the district departments is public information and may be given to anyone: a. Name. b. Age. c. Sex. d. Status (inmate, parolee, or probationer). e. Location, exc…

A person receiving or who has received services, or that person’s family, victim, or employer may institute a civil action for damages under chapter 669 or other action to restrain the release of confidential records set out in section 904.602, subsection 2 , which is in violatio…

1. An inmate of an institution shall be required to perform hard labor which is suited to the inmate’s age, gender, physical and mental condition, strength, and attainments in the institution proper, in the industries established in connection with the institution, or at such oth…

1. If allowances are paid pursuant to section 904.701 , the director shall establish an inmate account, for deposit of those allowances and for deposit of moneys sent to the inmate from a source other than the department of corrections. The director may deduct an amount, not to e…

1. Inmates shall work on state account in the maintenance of state institutions, in the erection, repair, authorized demolition, or operation of buildings and works used in connection with the institutions, and in industries established and maintained in connection with the insti…

The director or the superintendent or district director, as applicable, of the institutions shall not, nor shall any other person employed by the state, make any contract by which the labor or time of an inmate in the institution is given, loaned, or sold to any person unless as …

1. The director may establish industries at or in connection with any of the institutions under the director’s control and may make contractual agreements with the United States, other states, state departments and agencies, and subdivisions of the state, for purchase of industry…

1. A revolving farm fund is created in the state treasury in which the department shall deposit receipts from agricultural products, nursery stock, agricultural land rentals, and the sale of livestock. However, before any agricultural operation is phased out, the department which…

An inmate shall not be enrolled in an apprenticeship program if the inmate would be unable to obtain a necessary license to practice the profession to which the apprenticeship relates due to the inmate’s conviction of a felony. Prior to enrolling an inmate in an apprenticeship pr…

It is the intent of this subchapter that there be made available to inmates of the state correctional institutions opportunities for work in meaningful jobs with the following objectives: 1. To develop within those inmates willing to accept and persevere in such work: a. Positive…

As used in this subchapter : 1. “Iowa state industries” means prison industries that are established and maintained by the Iowa department of corrections at or adjacent to the state’s adult correctional institutions, except that an inmate work program established by the state dir…

The department shall adopt rules to further the intent stated by section 904.801 . [C79, 81, §216.4 ] 85 Acts, ch 21, §54 CS85, §246.804 C93, §904.804 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §355

The state director shall: 1. Conduct market studies and consult with public bodies and officers who are listed in section 904.807 , and with other potential purchasers, for the purpose of determining items or services needed and design features desired or required by potential pu…

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to impair the authority of the state director over the adult correctional institutions of this state, nor over the inmates thereof. [C79, 81, §216.6 ] 85 Acts, ch 21, §54 CS85, §246.806 C93, §904.806 2017 Acts, ch 54, §76 ; 2024 Acts,…

The state director shall cause to be prepared from time to time classified and itemized price lists of the products manufactured by Iowa state industries. Such lists shall be furnished to all boards of supervisors, boards of directors of school corporations, city councils, and al…

1. A product possessing the performance characteristics of a product listed in the price lists prepared pursuant to section 904.807 shall not be purchased by any department or agency of state government from a source other than Iowa state industries, except: a. When the purchase …

1. The following conditions shall apply to all agreements to provide private industry employment for inmates of correctional institutions: a. The state director shall comply with the intent of section 904.801 . b. An inmate shall not be compelled to take private industry employme…

Effective July 1, 1978, and notwithstanding any other provisions of this subchapter , goods made available by Iowa state industries shall be restricted to items, materials, supplies, and equipment which are formulated or manufactured by Iowa state industries and shall not include…

1. There is established in the treasury of the state a permanent Iowa state industries revolving fund. This revolving fund shall be created by the transfer thereto of all moneys in the revolving fund formerly established under section 246.26 as that section appeared in the Code o…

There is established in the treasury of the state a permanent adult correctional institutions inmate allowance supplement revolving fund, consisting solely of money paid as board and maintenance by inmates working in Iowa state industries, or working pursuant to section 904.809 .…

1. Iowa state industries may produce and sell products to any tax-supported institution or governmental subdivision in any level of government which includes the state, county, city, or school corporation. Iowa state industries may sell products to employees of those entities. 2.…