Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility does two jobs. It is a minimum-security reentry prison on 152 acres in Henry County, reclassified in 2016 to prepare people for release, and it is the address every visitor application in Iowa is posted to. The Centralized Visiting Authority that decides who may visit any of the nine Iowa prisons sits at 1200 E Washington Street, and the number families ring about an application anywhere in the state is this prison's own switchboard. For families visiting somebody held here, the thing to know first is that there are two separate visiting schedules, one for the Main Building and one for the Minimum Live Out unit.
City
Mount Pleasant
County
Henry County
State
IA
Facility Type
state prison
Capacity
Approx. 1,000
Custody Levels
Minimum, plus a Minimum Live Out unit
Operator
Iowa Department of Corrections
Address
1200 E Washington St., Mount Pleasant, IA 52641
Phone
319-385-9511
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View ArticleMain Building to 7:00 PM, Minimum Live Out to 2:00 PM.
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View Article1200 E Washington takes applications, not mail.
View ArticleIowa runs one search across all nine prisons, narrowed here through the Location dropdown. The search names the facility but never the unit, which matters at Mount Pleasant more than at most Iowa prisons because the Main Building and the Minimum Live Out unit run entirely different visiting schedules.
See the full breakdownFour published schedules across two units: Main Building in person Saturday and Sunday 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Minimum Live Out 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Main Building video Tuesday to Thursday afternoons and evenings, and Minimum Live Out video at weekends. Two visitors per visit, the tightest cap in Iowa, and phone booking on 319-385-9511 is genuinely open here.
See the full breakdownDeposits go to the IDOC Offender Fiduciary Account at Fort Dodge carrying four required details, never to Mount Pleasant, and phone credit and restitution go to Iowa State Penitentiary. Iowa deducts restitution, filing fees and mandatory savings from outside money before it reaches a spending balance.
See the full breakdownSeven cents a minute to the lower 48, with an international rate card few states publish. Calls come out only and connect once your number is on the approved list, arranged from inside. Toll-free, forwarded and three-way numbers never work. Iowa names no vendor and publishes no call length or calling hours.
See the full breakdownPersonal mail goes to PO Box 96777 in Las Vegas under the routing line Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility - 1113, where Pigeonly Corrections opens and scans it. The particular risk here is that families already know a Mount Pleasant street address from the visitor application, and a letter sent there is returned.
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It depends which unit. Main Building visits run Saturday and Sunday, 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM, the latest in-person close of any Iowa prison. Minimum Live Out visits run Saturday and Sunday, 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Both are limited to two visitors per visit and both are booked in the Ameelio Connect app.
VisitationBecause Mount Pleasant houses Iowa's Centralized Visiting Authority. Every visitor application for all nine Iowa prisons is posted to 1200 E Washington Street, and 319-385-9511 is both this facility's number and the statewide help line families ring about an application anywhere in the state.
VisitationYes, and Mount Pleasant is more open about this than most Iowa prisons. Its page says to ring 319-385-9511 between 7:00 AM and 2:00 PM, Monday through Friday, and adds that visits scheduled by call are handled on a first come, first served basis.
VisitationYes. Mount Pleasant suspended in-person visitation at the Main Building on March 26, 2026 and reinstated it on May 2, 2026. Because suspensions happen with little notice and this facility has had one recently, ring 319-385-9511 before travelling.
VisitationTo the person's name and offender number, then the line Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility - 1113, then PO Box 96777, Las Vegas, NV 89193. Do not post a letter to 1200 E Washington Street. That address takes visitor applications, and Iowa returns non-legal mail sent to a facility.
MailIowa publishes two figures. The facility page describes capacity as approximately 1,000, while the Daily Statistics page on September 9, 2026 gave Mount Pleasant a count of 1,019 against a capacity of 776, with 81 in medical or segregation status, plus a separate MPCF Minimum Live-Out line at 104 against 164.
GeneralA separate unit at this site that Iowa counts on its own line and gives its own visiting schedule. It held 104 people against a capacity of 164 on September 9, 2026. Iowa does not expand the term on its pages, but the unit's visits run shorter hours and its video visits fall at weekends rather than midweek.
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