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United States — Iowa
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If an institution’s buildings are destroyed or made unfit by fire, storms, or similar causes, the director must arrange temporary confinement and care for inmates elsewhere in the state. The director may do the same if there is an epidemic among inmates.
United States — Iowa
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If the director hires a private person or entity to transport inmates, the contract must require background, training, equipment, and standards compliance conditions.
United States — Iowa
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The department must distribute fund money as grants to nonprofit organizations that help eligible surviving families with accident or health care coverage costs.
United States — Iowa
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The director or the director’s designee must visit and inspect the institutions under the director’s control and investigate their financial condition and management at least once every six months.
United States — Iowa
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The director may investigate charges of abuse, neglect, or mismanagement involving officers or employees of institutions under the director’s supervision or control.
United States — Iowa
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The director may summon witnesses, examine them under oath, access relevant records and property, and order production of relevant books or papers.
United States — Iowa
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If someone disobeys the director’s orders or refuses to provide required evidence, the director must ask the district court for contempt, and the court must handle it as contempt of court.
United States — Iowa
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The director must record testimony taken at an investigation, and the recording generally cannot be transcribed unless the case is appealed or an interested party requests and pays for a transcript.
United States — Iowa
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Institution superintendents must send the director a true copy of each entrant’s record within ten days, and must also report an inmate’s departure, discharge, transfer, or death within ten days.
United States — Iowa
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If there is a question about the propriety of a commitment or detention, the superintendent or district director must notify the director within three days, and the director must look into the matter and take appropriate action.
United States — Iowa
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The director may transfer inmates between institutions, including for mental or physical examination or treatment, and may handle certain transfers involving mentally ill inmates and prisoners under the stated conditions.
United States — Iowa
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A state prison superintendent may receive certain federal inmates and keep them under their sentences, and the director may transfer state inmates to the federal Bureau of Prisons.
United States — Iowa
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Inmates who disobey disciplinary rules can be punished under those rules, and correctional staff may use only reasonably necessary force when an inmate resists lawful authority or commands.
United States — Iowa
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Inmates generally may not possess U.S. or foreign currency in department correctional facilities, unless the director authorizes it by rule.
United States — Iowa
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An escaping inmate may be arrested and returned to the institution by certain correctional staff, and by peace officers or others if requested in writing by the superintendent or state director.
United States — Iowa
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If a person escapes from a state correctional institution, the person’s necessary and legal expenses while absent are to be paid from unappropriated state treasury funds.
United States — Iowa
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Institution staff must receive and safeguard inmate property, and the superintendent and director must manage inmate money through an inmate savings fund and related return or delivery rules.
United States — Iowa
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The department may establish and maintain an inmate telephone fund, and the director must adopt rules for disbursing money from it.
United States — Iowa
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Money converted from an inmate’s property must be sent to the treasurer of state about a year after death, and the superintendent must keep a permanent record and send a transcript to the treasurer.
United States — Iowa
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The superintendent must ask each committed person their religious preference, record it, and ask them to sign the entry.