United States · Iowa · Bloomfield
Davis County Jail
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Davis County Jail is a county jail located in Davis County, Iowa. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
Iowa
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
The Marshall Project reported the death of Kara Noakes in the Davis County Jail after jailers confiscated her blood-pressure medication, leading to her being found cold and blue.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 5/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
- · In-custody-death signal in sources
This facility scores 10. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 8 points above national average.
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Reports
- marshall-project28 Apr 2017
had to be hospitalized.” Farmington, Utah: On Sunday the Standard-Examiner, a newspaper in Ogden, published a fiery editorial about the death of 46-year-old Kara Noakes in the Davis County Jail, located in Farmington. When Noakes was booked for failure to appear, jailers confiscated her blood-pressure pills and other medication. Two days later she was found cold and blue. The cause of her death
Data completeness
54%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Davis County Jail. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/davis-county-jail
"Davis County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed October 24, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/davis-county-jail.
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