IPI In The News

Read more about IPI (Iowa Prison Industries), our incarcerated individual training programs and the products and services we produce in the following news stories!

• Prisoner-built home arrives in Oakville for affordable housing
  

  Published on 11/6/23 by jnickell via The Hawk Eye

• Selling Iowa’s prison farms could bring millions, but cost history
  Published on 2/26/23 by Erin Jordan via The Gazette

• Two Homes for Iowa being moved into Fort Madison
  Published on 11/22/22 by Chuck Vandenberg via Pen City Current

• Iowa prisoners create new life while building affordable housing
  Published on 10/27/22 by Jannay Towne via WHO-13 Des Moines

• Inmates at Iowa's state prisons helping produce PPE
  Published on 4/28/20 by Courtney Spinelli via KWQC

• Iowa prisoners help make protective gear, hand sanitizer during COVID-19 pandemic
  Published on 4/1/20 by Sarah Beckman via We Are Iowa

• Homes for Iowa Inc. house rolls into Perry
  Published on 3/5/20 by Jim Caufield via The Perry News

• Midwestern states turning to inmates to address housing shortage
  Published on 8/1/19 by Mitt Hicks via Fox News

• Iowa DOT now offering new all-black license plate
  Published on 7/1/19 by Mitchell Schmidt via The Gazette

• Iowa inmates join effort to plug workforce shortage, housing gap in new prison program
  Published on 6/20/19 by Caroline Cummings via Iowa’s News NOW

• Newton prison inmates building homes, learning a trade
  Published on 6/14/19 by Dar Danielson via Radio Iowa

• Iowa has a rural housing shortage. Here's how the state's prison inmates will help solve it.
  Published on 6/7/19 by Kim Norvell via Des Moines Register

• Photos: Newton Correctional Facility converts old barn to make new houses
  Published on 6/4/19 by Brian Powers via Des Moines Register

• Burlington Police Show Off New Headquarters
  Published on 7/28/18 by Jason Parrott via Tristates Public Radio

• New license plate trickling out to Iowa vehicle owners
  Published on 6/17/18 by Bret Hayworth via Sioux City Journal
  

• Anamosa inmates look to the future with graduation ceremonies
  Published on 12/13/17 by Dave Franzman via KCRG-TV9

• These women hope to find the right path after prison
  Published on 11/22/17 by Rheya Spigner via KCCI Des Moines

• Profile: Iowa prison educator finds value in investing improvement
  Published on 09/03/17 by Michaela Ramm via The Gazette

• Moorland firm wants to hire NCCF inmates
  Published on 08/17/17 by Joe Sutter via The Messenger

• Choosing Iowa's New License Plate
  Published on 08/15/17 by John Pemble via Iowa Public Radio

• New Signs will mark Prairie Park Trail in Laurens
  Published on 06/22/2017 by Bill Shea via the Messenger
  
  
• If a tree falls on campus: Iowa State's TreeCYcling
  Published 03/19/2017 by Michael Heckle via the Iowa State Daily
  
  
• Prison workers donate to food bank
  Published 08/11/2016 by Lara Netolicky via Journal-Eureka
  
  
• Iowa Prison Industries helps Hancher Auditorium with new uniforms
  Published 07/06/2016 by Steffi Lee via CBS2/Fox 28
  
  
• Graduation Day: Prison inmates celebrate completion of education and apprenticeships
  Published 06/30/2016 by Lara Netolicky via Journal-Eureka
  
  
• Students avoid the floor, thanks to 400 hallway benches
  Published 04/21/2016 by Anne Krapfl via the Inside Iowa State
  
  City High students learn on their feet with standing desks
  Published 02/03/2016 by Holly Hines via the Iowa City Press-Citizen
  
  
• Breaking the Cycle: Program Gives Offenders Education and a Second Chance
  Published 01/26/2016 by Morgan McHugh via CBS2/Fox 28
  
  
• New benches being installed throughout campus
  Published 12/08/2015 by Madison Tuttle via the Iowa State Daily
  
  
• ISU student designs uniforms for Iowa prisoners
  Published 08/28/2015 by Michaela Ramm via the Iowa State Daily
  
  
• Inmates install dorm furniture
  Published 08/04/2015 by Matthew Rezab via the Iowa State Daily
  
  
• Breaking the cycle: Comprehensive re-entry programs key to reintegrating offenders
  Published 01/25/2015 by Chelsea Keenan via The Gazette
  
  
• ISU design students collaborate with Iowa Prison Industries
  Published 04/28/2014 by Dar Danielson via Radio Iowa
  
  
• Easter Seals Iowa's Camp Sunnyside celebrates finish of two cabins
  Published 09/24/2013 by Donnelle Eller via the The Des Moines Register
  
  
• Iowa prison inmates making more than license plates
  Published 11/25/2011 by Pat Curtis via Radio Iowa