Clarinda Correctional Facility opened in 1980 in Page County, in the far southwest corner of Iowa, and it is the most precisely scheduled prison in the state. Where other Iowa facilities publish an opening and closing time, Clarinda publishes four two-hour visiting blocks with the thirty-minute intermissions between them, video visits on four separate days, and a booking fallback that any family can use rather than only lawyers. This guide covers all of that, plus the Nevada mail address and its 1107 code, and the centralized money system that no longer takes anything at the door.
City
Clarinda
County
Page County
State
IA
Facility Type
state prison
Capacity
Approx. 1,000
Custody Levels
Medium
Operator
Iowa Department of Corrections
Address
2000 North 16th St., Clarinda, IA 51632
Phone
712-695-7140
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View ArticleThe most precisely published schedule in Iowa, and the friendliest fallback.
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View ArticleIowa runs one search for all nine prisons, narrowed to Clarinda through the Location dropdown, with Starts With, Matches and Sounds Like name modes. The record carries age, offense, commitment date, both discharge dates and the latest parole board decision. Iowa's disclaimer says the data is updated weekly, which matters given how far Clarinda is from most of the state.
See the full breakdownFour two-hour in-person blocks on Saturday and Sunday with published thirty-minute intermissions, capped at three visitors, plus video on four days a week in fifty-minute blocks. All free, all booked in Ameelio Connect, and uniquely in Iowa, any family unable to use the app can ring the prison and arrange a visit through the person's counselor.
See the full breakdownIowa banks all offender money at Fort Dodge, so nothing comes to Clarinda. Money orders and cashier's checks go to the IDOC Offender Fiduciary Account carrying the offender's name and number plus your name and full address, or they are returned. Access Corrections starts at $3.49, JPay from $3.95, and cash routes exist for anyone without a card.
See the full breakdownSeven cents a minute to the lower 48, with Iowa directing the revenue to legal services, education and victim services. Calls come out only to numbers approved from inside. Toll-free, 900, forwarded and three-way numbers are blocked outright. Phone credit is banked at Iowa State Penitentiary rather than Fort Dodge. Iowa names no vendor and publishes no call length.
See the full breakdownPersonal mail goes to PO Box 96777 in Las Vegas under the routing line Clarinda Correctional Facility - 1107, where Pigeonly Corrections opens and scans it. Iowa states mail sent directly to a prison is returned to sender. Letters including children's drawings, cards, postcards, ten 4x6 photos and unbound newsletters are accepted, and Iowa names a separate approved photo print provider.
See the full breakdown6 of 7 questions
Four blocks on Saturday and Sunday: 8:15 to 10:15, 10:45 to 12:45, 1:15 to 3:15, and 3:45 to 5:45, with a thirty-minute intermission between each. Clarinda is the only Iowa prison that publishes its day this precisely. Video visits run Saturday and Sunday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM and Friday 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, in fifty-minute blocks.
VisitationClarinda is the one Iowa prison that gives every family a way round it. Its page says that if you do not have access to the app you may contact the prison directly to discuss manually scheduling an in-person visit, on 712-695-7140, asking for the incarcerated person's counselor. Most other Iowa prisons limit that route to approved attorneys and social workers, or publish no fallback at all.
VisitationThree. Clarinda publishes the cap, which several Iowa prisons do not. Iowa's statewide policy sets the same figure of three adult visitors, with children counted against the room's seating capacity, so the two agree here.
VisitationNo. The Iowa Department of Corrections offers both in-person and video visits at no cost to approved friends and family. Getting approved is the slow part: a paper application, posted to Mount Pleasant, with a decision inside 30 days.
VisitationTo the person's name and offender number, then the line Clarinda Correctional Facility - 1107, then PO Box 96777, Las Vegas, NV 89193. Iowa states that non-legal mail sent directly to a prison is returned to sender, so both the Nevada address and the 1107 code matter.
MailNot to Clarinda. Iowa centralized offender banking at Fort Dodge, so money orders and cashier's checks go to the IDOC Offender Fiduciary Account, 1550 L Street, Suite B, Fort Dodge, IA 50501. Institutions no longer accept deposits at the door. Access Corrections, JPay and Western Union all handle electronic transfers.
Send MoneyWell over capacity. Iowa's daily count on September 9, 2026 showed 1,058 people held against an operational capacity of 750, with 46 in medical or segregation status. The facility page separately describes capacity as approximately 1,000. Both figures are official and Iowa does not explain the gap between them.
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