If a woman is serving a prison sentence in Iowa, she is almost certainly at Mitchellville. The Iowa Correctional Institution for Women is the state's only women's prison and its women's intake centre, and on September 9, 2026 it held 728 of the 732 women in Iowa's prison population. It is also the most open prison in the state about its visiting room: five visitors per visit against three elsewhere, and twenty visiting stations per two-hour slot published outright. What it does not publish is a capacity figure or an opening date, the only Iowa prison missing both.
City
Mitchellville
County
Polk County
State
IA
Facility Type
state prison
Gender
Female
Custody Levels
Medium, plus a Minimum Live-Out unit
Operator
Iowa Department of Corrections
Address
420 Mill St. SW, Mitchellville, IA 50169
Phone
515-725-5042
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View ArticleThe cap, the slots, and the narrow route round the app.
View ArticleICIW banks the first money, Fort Dodge handles the rest.
View ArticleCalls come out only, and forwarding numbers never connect.
View ArticleNevada, not Mitchellville, and what happens to the paper.
View ArticleIowa runs one search for all nine prisons, and for a woman the Location filter is almost redundant, since Mitchellville held 728 of the state's 732 incarcerated women. Filtering by sex is often the faster move. Iowa's Daily Statistics page lists this prison as Mitchellville rather than ICIW.
See the full breakdownSaturday and Sunday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, five visitors per visit and twenty stations per two-hour slot, all booked in the Ameelio Connect app. Video runs Monday and Friday 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM with five general population stations and two Minimum Live-Out stations an hour, and Iowa charges nothing for either.
See the full breakdownICIW deposits the cash a woman arrives with, which Iowa's funds policy assigns to this facility for every female commitment in the state. After that, deposits go to the IDOC Offender Fiduciary Account at Fort Dodge carrying four required details, while phone credit and restitution go to Iowa State Penitentiary.
See the full breakdownSeven cents a minute to the lower 48, with an international rate card few states publish. Calls go out only and connect once your number is on her approved list, which is arranged from inside. Toll-free, forwarded and three-way numbers never work. Iowa names no phone vendor and publishes no call length.
See the full breakdownPersonal mail goes to PO Box 96777 in Las Vegas under the routing line Iowa Correctional Institution for Women - 1109, where Pigeonly Corrections opens and scans it. Ten photos or ten enclosed pages at most, originals destroyed after scanning, and anything posted to Mitchellville returned to sender.
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Five, which is the most generous cap published by any Iowa prison. Most publish three or publish nothing at all. ICIW also states that it runs twenty visiting stations per two-hour time slot, so the room's capacity is public in a way it is not elsewhere in the state.
VisitationSaturday and Sunday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, booked in the Ameelio Connect app only. Video visits run Monday and Friday, 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM, in one-hour slots with five stations for general population and two for the Minimum Live-Out unit.
VisitationYes, and it is the intake centre too. The Iowa Department of Corrections states that female offenders are processed through the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women at Mitchellville, and its funds policy makes ICIW responsible for depositing intake money for every female incarcerated individual in the state.
GeneralOnly in narrow circumstances. ICIW says that if you cannot use the Ameelio app and you are an approved visitor with the Department of Human Services or an approved attorney, you may ring 515-725-5042 Friday through Monday and ask for the visiting room officer. For anyone else, a special visit has to be initiated by the incarcerated person.
VisitationTo her name and offender number, then the line Iowa Correctional Institution for Women - 1109, then PO Box 96777, Las Vegas, NV 89193. Iowa returns to sender any non-legal mail posted to the prison in Mitchellville.
MailIt does not say. ICIW is the only one of Iowa's nine prisons whose facility page has no capacity field and no opened or built date. The department's separate Daily Statistics page fills part of the gap, giving Mitchellville a count of 728 against a capacity of 654 on September 9, 2026, with 114 in medical or segregation status.
GeneralA separate unit at ICIW that Iowa counts on its own line, with a capacity of 120. On September 9, 2026 it held nobody at all. Iowa does not expand the term on its own pages, and video visiting reserves two stations an hour for that unit alongside five for general population.
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All information on this page comes directly from official government and facility sources. How we verify information › Last verified September 9, 2026. Official source: doc.iowa.gov/districts-prisons/iowa-correctional-institution-women ›