G > How long do you think Kent was in the
G > FORT DES MOINES RESIDENTIAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY?
KBW > Do you honestly think people convicted
KBW > of crimes end up housed in a MUSEUM?
KBW > Get off the illegal drugs, Greg. I'm being very serious.
Kent, The FORT DES MOINES RESIDENTIAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
is not a museum.
Even the LINK you just posted has a MAP button.
If you call up the map and slide a little South
and West, along Thayer street a spot is actually
marked right on the map "Polk County Work Release Center".
Notice the aerial of the buildings by that text?
LOL!
http://fifthdcs.com/DistrictMap.cfm
[ see lower left side text cut and pasted below ]
Fort Des Moines Community Corrections Complex
Building 68
Building 70
Honors Unit
Youthful Offender Program/Drug Court
http://fifthdcs.com/addresses.cfm?location=fort
Fort Des Moines Community Corrections Complex
Main Phone Number: (515) 242-6900
Building 68
68 Thayer St
Des Moines, IA 50315
fax (515) 242-6961
Building 70
70 Thayer St
Des Moines, IA 50315
fax (515) 242-6958
Honors Unit
65 Gruber St
Des Moines, IA 50315
fax (515) 242-6672
Youthful Offender Program/Drug Court
65 Gruber St
Des Moines, IA 50315
fax (515) 242-5630
http://www.humanrights.iowa.gov/cjjp/images/pdf/02_pub/Probationers.pdf
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FORT DES MOINES RESIDENTIAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, DES
MOINES, IOWA
The Fifth Judicial District has three separate residential facilities
located in the
southwestern area of Des Moines on the grounds of a former army post,
Fort Des
Moines. However, only one of these facilities serves probationers. The
remaining two
facilities serve the needs of OWI and Work Release populations
respectively. The area
surrounding the expansive grounds of the former army post is a mixture
of residential
and commercial structures.
The residential facility program for probationers was first
established in 1971. The
current single level facility was opened in 1999, after being newly
constructed, and has a
designated capacity of 80 male beds. Unlike other facilities, all beds
are reserved solely
for probationers. As of July 2000, the facility was operating at or
under its designated
capacity; however, there were an unspecified number of probationers
awaiting
admission at that time.
Culver signs infrastructure bill that keeps sex offenders on DM’s
south side
William Petroski April 28, 2010 [ Catch that DATE? ]
Gov. Chet Culver has signed a $273 million infrastructure
spending bill with a provision that will keep sex offenders
indefinitely at the Fort Des Moines correctional facility on the
city’s south side. <snip>