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Iowa's prisons held 130.6% of their bed capacity (November 2026)

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CF Finding130.6%Courts & Justice

On November 9, 2026 the Iowa Department of Corrections counted 9,130 people assigned to its prisons against 6,990 beds, 2,140 more people than beds. Civic Forecast calculation from two counts the Iowa Department of Corrections publishes on the Iowa Data Hub (CC BY 4.0): prison population and bed capacity, each summed over its prisons.

Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.

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