The Jail System
Iowa has 96 jails in 99 counties. The jail population in 2021 was 4,486.
The Prison System
As of December 31, 2021, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of the State of Iowa correctional authorities was 8,562 located in 36 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. Iowa operated facilities had a staff of 3,700 employees and a budget of $469,955,705.
The Community Corrections System
As of December 31, 2021, Iowa community corrections population was 24,839 under probation and 7,261 under parole.
Methodology
The National Institute of Corrections depends on publicly available information to provide the information on this page.
The statistics for budgets, employee positions, county numbers, and state prison facilities data come from state departments of corrections, other state reports and state agencies. If data is missing for a state, then we were unable to find that information.
The data on prison population come from the Prisoner in 2021 report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The report includes the count of prisoners in the unified systems of Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Violent and property crime rates are provided by the Vera Institute.
