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

1. There is established in each judicial district in this state a judicial district department of correctional services. Each district department shall furnish or contract for those services necessary to provide a community-based correctional program which meets the requirements …

1. A district advisory board is established for each district department, which shall serve in an advisory capacity to a district director without compensation, and shall be composed as follows: a. One member shall be appointed annually by a district director from the board of su…

The board of corrections shall: 1. Organize annually and select a chairperson and vice chairperson. 2. Provide advice and recommendations to the department regarding policies for the operation and conduct of the department and the implementation of all department programs. 3. Rep…

The district advisory board shall: 1. Adopt bylaws and rules for the conduct of district advisory board business. 2. Advise the district director concerning suitable quarters at one or more sites in the district as may be necessary for the district department’s community-based co…

Meetings may be called by the chairperson or upon written request of any three members of the board. The chairperson shall preside at all meetings or in the chairperson’s absence, the vice chairperson shall preside. The members of the board shall be paid their actual expenses whi…

The chief administrative officer for the department is the director. The director shall be appointed by the governor subject to confirmation by the senate and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The director shall be qualified in reformatory and prison management, knowle…

1. The director shall: a. Supervise the operations of the institutions under the department’s jurisdiction and may delegate the powers and authorities given the director by statute to officers or employees of the department. b. Supervise state agents whose duties relate primarily…

1. Section 904.108, subsection 1 , paragraph “a”, does not limit the general supervisory or examining powers vested in the governor by the laws or constitution of the state, or legally vested by the governor in a committee appointed by the governor. 2. The superintendent of an in…

The department shall have an official seal with the words “Iowa Department of Corrections” and an engraved design. Every commission, order, or other paper of an official nature executed by the department may be attested with the seal. 83 Acts, ch 96, §10, 159 CS83, §217A.9 85 Act…

The department of corrections may enter into agreements, as provided for in chapter 28E , with a district department of correctional services as necessary. 84 Acts, ch 1184, §20 C85, §217A.10 85 Acts, ch 21, §54 CS85, §246.111 C93, §904.111

Institutional receipts of the department of corrections shall be deposited in the general fund of the state except as follows: 1. Reimbursement for services provided to another institution or state agency, rentals charged to employees or other persons for room, apartment, or hous…

The department may accept gifts of real or personal property from the federal government or any source. The director may exercise powers with reference to the property so accepted as necessary or appropriate to its preservation and the purposes for which it is given. 83 Acts, ch …

The director, staff members, assistants, and employees, in addition to salary, shall receive their necessary traveling expenses by the nearest practicable route, when engaged in the performance of official business. Permission shall not be granted to any person to travel to anoth…

Annually at the time provided by law, the department shall make a report to the governor and the general assembly, which shall cover the annual period ending with June 30 preceding the date of the report and shall include: 1. An itemized statement of the department’s expenditures…

1. The department of corrections shall not revise the allocations to the correctional institutions under the control of the department from the amounts allocated to the institutions, unless notice of the revisions is given prior to their effective date to the legislative services…

An interstate compact fund is established under the control of the department. All interstate compact fees collected by the department pursuant to section 907B.4 shall be deposited into the fund and the moneys shall be used by the department to offset the costs of complying with …

1. A federal receipts fund is established in the state treasury under the control of the department. The fund shall consist of all of the following: a. All federal moneys received by the department, including but not limited to moneys received for federally contracted services, b…

The department shall establish a fund for maintaining and operating a central warehouse and supply depot and distribution facility for surplus government products, canned goods, paper products, other staples, and for such other items as determined by the department. A department …

The department shall not enter into any agreement with a private sector for-profit entity for the purpose of housing inmates committed to the custody of the director. 2007 Acts, ch 103, §1

1. The Iowa medical and classification center at Oakdale shall be utilized as a forensic psychiatric hospital for persons displaying evidence of mental illness or psychosocial disorders and requiring diagnostic services or treatment in a security setting, as a security unit for p…

The director may provide facilities and personnel for a diagnostic intake and classification center. The work of the center shall include a scientific study of each inmate, the inmate’s career and life history, the causes of the inmate’s criminal acts and recommendations for the …

The director may establish a violator facility as a freestanding facility, or designate a portion of an existing correctional facility for the purpose. A violator facility is for the temporary confinement of offenders who have violated conditions of release under work release or …

1. The director shall appoint, subject to the advice and recommendations of the board, the superintendents of the institutions provided for in section 904.102 . 2. The superintendent has the immediate custody and control, subject to the orders and policies of the director, of all…

1. The director shall appoint, subject to the advice and recommendations of the board, a district director for each district department established in section 904.104A . 2. The district director has the immediate custody and control, subject to the orders and policies of the dire…

Each district director employed by the department shall be qualified in the administration of correctional programs. The district director shall: 1. Perform the duties and have the responsibilities delegated or specified by the department. 2. Manage the district department’s comm…

The director may appoint a farm operations administrator for institutions under the control of the departments of corrections and health and human services. If appointed, the farm operations administrator, subject to the direction of the director shall do all of the following: 1.…

1. The director shall determine the number and compensation of subordinate officers and employees for each institution subject to chapter 8A, subchapter IV . Subject to this chapter , the officers and employees shall be appointed and discharged by the superintendent or district d…

A training fund is established under the control of the department. The director shall provide training to all new officers or employees of the department free of charge. The department shall also offer in-service training which shall include classes for officers and employees in…

The director shall require officers and employees of institutions under the director’s control who are charged with the custody or control of money or property belonging to the state, to give an official bond properly conditioned and signed by sufficient sureties in a sum to be f…

1. The director may furnish the superintendent of each of the institutions, in addition to salary, with a dwelling house or with appropriate quarters in lieu of a house, or the director may compensate the superintendent of each of the institutions in lieu of furnishing a house or…

Quarterly conferences of the superintendents and the district directors of the institutions shall be held with the director for the consideration of all matters relative to the management of the institutions. Full minutes of the meetings shall be preserved in the records of the d…

1. The superintendent of each institution shall make an annual report to the director. 2. The district director of each district department shall make an annual report to the director. 83 Acts, ch 96, §37, 159 CS83, §217A.53 85 Acts, ch 21, §54 CS85, §246.307 88 Acts, ch 1049, §1…

The department and the director shall cooperate with any department or agency of the state government in any manner, including the exchange of employees, calculated to improve administration of the affairs of the institutions. Joint use of facilities by the department and another…

The director may secure the services of consultants to furnish advice on administrative, professional, or technical problems to the director or the employees of institutions under the director’s jurisdiction or to provide in-service training and instruction for the employees. The…

The director may maintain a canteen at an institution under the director’s jurisdiction for the sale to persons confined in or committed to the institution of items such as toilet articles, candy, tobacco products, notions, and other sundries, and may provide the necessary facili…

1. Funds appropriated to the department or other funds made available to the department shall not be used to distribute or make available any commercially published information or material to an inmate when such information or material is sexually explicit or features nudity. 2. …

1. The director may permit the superintendent or the district director, as applicable, of each institution to retain a stated amount of funds in possession as a contingent fund for the payment of freight, postage, commodities purchased on authority of the director on a cash basis…

A recycling fund for each prison institution is created as a separate and distinct fund in the state treasury. All moneys remitted to the department for the recycling operations of a prison institution shall be deposited in the fund established for that institution. Notwithstandi…

1. The director shall adopt rules governing the purchase of all articles and supplies needed at the various institutions and the form and verification of vouchers for the purchases. When purchases are made by sample, the sample shall be properly marked and retained until after an…

1. The department of corrections shall provide for the purchase of qualified renewable fuels to power internal combustion engines that are used to operate motor vehicles and for the purchase of motor vehicles operating using engines powered by qualified renewable fuels in the sam…

The department when purchasing hydraulic fluids, greases, and other industrial lubricants shall give preference to purchasing biobased hydraulic fluids, greases, and other industrial lubricants as provided in section 8A.316 . 98 Acts, ch 1082, §7 ; 2000 Acts, ch 1109, §7 ; 2003 A…

The department shall give preference to purchasing designated biobased products in the same manner as provided in section 8A.317 . 2008 Acts, ch 1104, §7

The purchase of materials or equipment for penal or correctional institutions under the department is exempted from the requirements of centralized purchasing and bidding by the department of administrative services if the materials or equipment are needed to make an emergency re…

1. The director shall cause plans and specifications to be prepared by the department of administrative services for all improvements authorized and costing over the competitive bid threshold in section 26.3 , or as established in section 314.1B . An appropriation for any improve…

1. The director of the department of administrative services shall, in writing, let all contracts for authorized improvements under chapter 8A, subchapter III , costing in excess of the competitive bid threshold in section 26.3 , or as established in section 314.1B . Upon prior a…

The director of the department of administrative services shall not authorize payment for construction purposes until satisfactory proof has been furnished to the director of the department of administrative services by the proper officer or supervising architect, that the contra…