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Anamosa State Penitentiary Overview

Anamosa State Penitentiary, often shortened to ASP, is operated by the Iowa Department of Corrections. The DOC facility page lists it as a medium-security prison in Jones County. It is a state corrections institution for sentenced Iowa prison inmates and DOC-supervised custody, not a booking jail for new county arrests. A person arrested in Jones County may begin at Jones County Jail, but a prison sentence moves lookup and custody questions to the Iowa DOC system.

The DOC page lists the prison at 406 N. High Street in Anamosa, names Brian Foster as warden, states that the institution was built in 1899, and gives an approximate capacity of 950. Those facts make ASP very different from the 26-bed county jail elsewhere in Anamosa. Search users should be precise with the facility name because "Anamosa inmate" may refer either to a county jail detainee or to a sentenced state prisoner.

Anamosa State Penitentiary Capacity

The sourced population figure for Anamosa State Penitentiary is its approximate capacity of 950, published by the Iowa DOC facility page. The captured official source did not provide a current headcount for the prison. Capacity describes the size of the institution, while a current count would require a DOC population report or a later official source that was not captured in the Jones County research file.

Iowa prison population records are handled at the state level. Public and confidential DOC offender information is governed by Iowa Code section 904.601, while local jail records and county booking records follow different laws and offices. When a person has moved from county jail to ASP, state offender status, institution placement, and sentence information should be checked through the Iowa DOC Offender Search.

Look Up ASP Inmates

The correct locator for Anamosa State Penitentiary is the Iowa DOC Offender Search. The Jones County Jail phone is not the right lookup channel for a sentenced prisoner housed at ASP, unless the question is about a person who has not yet left county custody. The DOC locator is built for sentenced Iowa offenders and supervised offenders, while the county jail route is for local arrestees, pretrial detainees, short county sentences, and work release.

1. Open the Iowa DOC Offender Search and choose the state offender search fields.
2. Enter the offender number if known, or search by legal first and last name.
3. Review the result for current institution or supervision status.
4. Confirm that the listed facility is Anamosa State Penitentiary before planning a visit or mailing items.
5. Use VINELink only as a custody-notification supplement, not as a substitute for the DOC locator.

Anamosa State Penitentiary Contact

Use the prison contact information for facility-specific questions such as current visiting status, entrance rules, and DOC procedures. Do not use the Jones County Jail records path for ASP inmate placement, prison visiting, or prison mail rules. County court records may still matter if the person was convicted in Jones County, but state custody records are managed by the Iowa Department of Corrections.

Anamosa State Penitentiary Visitation

The ASP facility page contains a current-status caution because it lists an in-person visitation suspension notice while also showing schedule rows for in-person and video visiting. Treat the DOC page as the controlling source before travel. State prison visitation is approval-based, scheduled, and subject to institution security rules. Visitors entering Iowa prisons are subject to search for security and contraband control, including pat down, metal detectors, electronic ion scanners, other electronic devices, or visual searches.

Visitors who refuse required searches will be denied entrance to the visiting room. Because the official page shows both a suspension notice and schedule data, current facility status should be checked with ASP or the DOC facility page before a visitor drives to the prison.

ASP Mail, Phone, and Money

Anamosa State Penitentiary uses Iowa DOC family and friends rules rather than Jones County Jail's Reliance phone and county commissary instructions. That distinction is important. A county jail mailing address or county phone vendor does not apply to a sentenced state prisoner at ASP. DOC mail, phone, and money-deposit processes can change by statewide contract or policy, so the DOC family resources should be checked before sending funds or property.

Anamosa State Penitentiary Admission

ASP does not book new street arrests the way Jones County Jail does. State-prison admission follows conviction, sentencing, DOC reception, classification, and placement. Classification is the state process for assigning custody level, institution, programs, and housing based on sentence, conduct, medical or safety needs, and DOC rules. A person convicted in Jones County may pass through county jail and court before any prison placement appears in the DOC locator.

When someone is missing from the county jail path after sentencing, the next search should be state-level. Iowa Courts Online can show the case outcome or mittimus, which is a court order committing a person to custody or sentence service. The DOC search then shows the state corrections side of the record when public information is available.

Anamosa State Penitentiary Programs

The DOC facility page lists several Iowa Prison Industries work and production areas at ASP. These programs are not county jail services and should not be confused with Jones County Jail work release. Iowa Prison Industries offerings listed for ASP include Braille transcription, cleaning products, custom woodworking, graphic arts, license plates, metal furniture, signs, and warehouse or farming operations.

The same research notes U.S. Department of Labor program categories at the prison: cognitive-based programming, education skills, and work skills. These categories describe prison programming for sentenced inmates under DOC management. The county jail research did not locate equivalent GED, vocational, medical, or grievance program details for Jones County Jail, which is another reason the two Anamosa facilities should be handled separately.

DOC

Iowa Department of Corrections, the state agency that manages prisons and state offender records.

Classification

The prison assignment process that considers custody level, sentence, risk, needs, and facility placement.

County Jail

A local facility for booking, pretrial custody, short county sentences, and local court holds.

About ASP Records

The official Iowa DOC Anamosa State Penitentiary page provides the facility facts for the prison, including the medium-security designation, warden name, build year, approximate capacity, and visiting schedule notes. The facility screenshot matches the DOC page and should be read as state-prison information, not county jail roster information.

ASP records connect most directly to the Iowa DOC Offender Search, DOC visiting rules, DOC family resources, and state correctional records law. Local Jones County records still matter for the arrest and court case that led to prison, but the prison placement itself is a state record.