The general contractor responsible for constructing the empty Fort Madison state prison wants an additional $18.1 million in state payments beyond its original contract award for nearly $117 million.

The Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) in Fort Madison has a new warden. It was announced Monday that Mark C. Foreman will oversee ...

A state corrections official Tuesday said the Iowa State Penitentiary maximum-security facility was placed under lockdown status after an inmate assaulted another prisoner in the Fort Madison ...

Sen. Rich Taylor, R-Mount Pleasant, who is retired as the heating and cooling technician at the existing Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, said he is concerned the geothermal system in the ...

Driving by the original Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, I always wondered if the offenders housed within were tormented by happy sounds emanating from the miniature golf and ice cream ...

Iowa's corrections agency says dozens of inmates at its Fort Madison prison were involved recently in a "large fight" that included minor injuries. The Iowa Department of Corrections confirmed ...

A New London man will spend two years in federal prison after admitting to using ... the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 617 in Fort Madison for his personal expenses.

FORT MADISON, Iowa - A non-profit group is trying to save the old Fort Madison Prison that's been sitting vacant since August of 2015. The Fort Madison Prison was built back in 1839 and has a lot ...

DES MOINES (AP) -- Almost two years after the escape of two prisoners serving life sentences escaped from its wall, the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison is undergoing a $1.6 million ...

Fort Madison's Maximum Security State Penitentiary, established in 1839 In Fort Madison, 550 inmates were scheduled to be transferred to a new $132 million state maximum security prison - that was ...

Justin Kestner, 25, escaped early Sunday from a cell in the A-Pod unit at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, which houses some of the state's most difficult inmates. "This is an ...