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Fort Dodge Correctional Facility
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Fort Dodge Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Webster County, Iowa. Rated capacity: 1,162. Reported population: 1,296. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Fort Dodge Correctional Facility (FDCF) is a medium security institution located on 60 acres (240,000 m2) of land in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The institution has 1,250 beds, and it has 1,312 inmates (1,162 at capacity) and another 75 in segregation (as of 29 April 2018). About 372 people are employed by the institution. The Fort Dodge facility is based on a campus model, with administration and treatment buildings, five living units, and support structures such as warehouse and power plant buildings. The living areas are divided into units to provide easier supervision and control of inmates.
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Capacity
1,162
Current population
1,296
Occupancy
112%
Year opened
1998
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Iowa Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1998
Region
Iowa
Security level
Medium
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
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 5/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 112% of design capacity
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
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- North Kern State Prison (Nksp)DelanoMediumState prison167% occupancy
- Valley State Prison (Vsp)ChowchillaMediumState prison180% occupancy
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%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
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5471073)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Fort Dodge Correctional Facility. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fort-dodge-correctional-facility
"Fort Dodge Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed October 24, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/fort-dodge-correctional-facility.
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