Mitchellville held 728 of the 732 women in Iowa's prison population on September 9, 2026, so for a woman the location field rarely says anything else. Start with a name below and we will find them.
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There is no separate roster for this prison. Iowa runs one offender search across all nine facilities and community supervision, and you narrow it through the Location dropdown. Searching for a woman is a different exercise from searching for a man in Iowa, because there is only one women’s prison and it is also the women’s intake centre, so the answer is Mitchellville nearly every time. What the search will not tell you is which unit she is in, and at this prison that changes how a video visit is booked.
Open Iowa’s statewide offender search and set Location to the ICIW entry, or set Sex to female and leave Location on All. Whichever filter you pick, you can also look her up by name with Pigeonly.
The second approach is usually better here. Iowa’s Daily Statistics page counted 732 women in the state’s prison population on September 9, 2026, and 728 of them were at Mitchellville. Filtering by sex catches the handful who are somewhere else, on a corrections compact, an interstate compact, or under a judicial district’s supervision.
Iowa writes this facility three different ways across its own pages, and it is worth knowing all three so a search does not stall.
The facility’s own page and the offender search say Iowa Correctional Institution for Women.
The department’s index of districts and prisons says Iowa Correctional Institute for Women, with Institute rather than Institution.
The Daily Statistics page, which publishes counts and capacities daily, says Mitchellville.
The facility page is the authoritative one. All three are the same address in Polk County.
Starts With is the default and works from a partial name.
Matches requires the name exactly as Iowa recorded it, which at a women’s prison is often a maiden name or a name recorded before a marriage.
Sounds Like finds names pronounced the same and spelled differently. It is the mode to reach for whenever a name has changed, since the version in Iowa’s system may predate the one you know.
County of Commitment narrows a common surname, and it means where the case originated rather than where she is now.
Iowa adds a caution of its own to a parole interview date: contact Board of Parole staff to confirm it rather than trusting the page.
Iowa’s Daily Statistics page counts this site as two separate lines, and the offender search shows neither.
On September 9, 2026, Mitchellville held 728 against a capacity of 654, with 114 in medical or segregation status. Directly beneath it, ICIW Minimum Live-Out showed 0 against a capacity of 120.
That empty unit still shapes visiting. ICIW’s video schedule reserves five stations for general population and two for Minimum Live-Out in each one-hour slot, so the department is holding capacity open for a unit that currently has nobody in it.
Since the search does not publish a unit, the practical move is to ask on 515-725-5042 which schedule she falls under before you book anything.
ICIW is the only one of Iowa’s nine prisons whose facility page carries no capacity field and no opened or built date.
Every other facility page publishes at least a rounded capacity. This one does not, and the department gives no reason. The Daily Statistics figures above are the only official numbers available, and they are a different kind of figure: an operational capacity measured daily rather than a descriptive one.
A record with the right name and nothing in the location, offense or date fields almost always means release.
Iowa keeps released people in the database and empties those fields rather than deleting the record. It reads like a fault and it is your answer, though ring and confirm if a release would be unexpected.
The search disclaimer says information is updated on a weekly basis and may change quickly. A separate Iowa Department of Corrections page tells families a transfer generally appears within 24 hours of the move.
Both are official and neither mentions the other. At a prison holding nearly every incarcerated woman in the state, transfers out are less common than at the men’s prisons, so the location field here is more stable than it is anywhere else in Iowa.
She is in county custody. Anyone awaiting trial or sentencing is held by a county, and county rosters are not in this search.
The name in Iowa’s system is different. Try Sounds Like, or search the surname alone.
She was released. See the blank record above.
She is on community supervision. The Location dropdown includes each judicial district, and the interstate and corrections compacts.
The case was federal. There are no federal prisons in Iowa, so the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) runs a separate locator.
Copy the offender number and the exact legal name spelling down the first time you find them.
The mail routing line needs both, a money order to Fort Dodge is returned without them, and the visitor application asks for them on the first line. Iowa’s correspondence policy also requires the legal name on incoming mail rather than a preferred one, which at a women’s prison is a distinction worth reading twice.
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Use the statewide offender search at doc-search.iowa.gov. Setting Sex to female and leaving Location on All is usually faster than filtering by facility, because Iowa has one women's prison and it held 728 of the state's 732 incarcerated women on September 9, 2026.
Inmate SearchThe facility's own page and the offender search say Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. The department's districts and prisons index says Institute rather than Institution. The Daily Statistics page calls the same prison Mitchellville. The facility page is authoritative, and all three refer to 420 Mill Street SW in Polk County.
Inmate SearchNo. The search shows the facility but never the unit, and at ICIW that matters because Iowa counts a separate Minimum Live-Out unit with its own capacity of 120, and reserves two video visiting stations an hour for it. Ring 515-725-5042 and ask which schedule applies before booking.
Inmate SearchAlmost always a release. Iowa keeps released people in the database and empties the location, offense and date fields instead of deleting the record. It looks like a broken search and it is really the answer, though confirm by phone if a release would surprise you.
Inmate SearchUse the Sounds Like name mode, and try any earlier surname as well. Iowa's records may carry a name from before a marriage or a change, and its correspondence policy requires the legal name on mail rather than a preferred one. Starts With handles a partial name and Matches needs an exact one.
Inmate SearchIowa's facility page publishes no capacity figure at all, uniquely among the nine prisons. Its Daily Statistics page gave Mitchellville a count of 728 against a capacity of 654 on September 9, 2026, with 114 in medical or segregation status, plus a separate ICIW Minimum Live-Out line holding nobody against a capacity of 120.
Inmate SearchIowa publishes two answers. The search disclaimer says data is updated weekly and may change quickly, while a separate Iowa DOC page says a transfer generally shows within 24 hours. Both are official. Because ICIW is the state's only women's prison, transfers out are rarer than at the men's facilities and the location field is more stable.
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