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Poweshiek County Jail Overview

Poweshiek County Jail / Poweshiek County Public Safety Building is operated by the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office. The official sheriff page uses the Public Safety Building address as the main contact point for the sheriff and jail operation. The facility is a county jail, not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. It holds people arrested in Poweshiek County or otherwise lawfully committed to sheriff custody, including pretrial detainees, people waiting for initial appearance or bail action, county jail sentence inmates, and people held for transfer as authorized by law.

Iowa jail law helps define the facility's role. Iowa Code Chapter 356 treats county jails as places for people charged with crimes, witnesses, and others lawfully committed, and it places jail prisoner custody with the sheriff. Iowa Administrative Code 201 Chapter 50 sets statewide jail standards for administration, medical screening, suicide prevention, incident reports, and inspections. These state rules are important because Poweshiek County did not publish a separate jail handbook in the reviewed official pages.

The official Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office page shows the Public Safety Building contact block used for jail and sheriff routing.

That source is the first local channel for current custody questions because no official current-inmate search page was located.

Poweshiek County Jail Address

The jail and sheriff contact point is not the courthouse. The court and many county offices use the 302 East Main courthouse address in Montezuma, while the jail and sheriff facility use Barnes City Road. Use the exact jail address for custody questions, records pickup, or any confirmed jail visit.

Sheriff Matt Maschmann is listed as the current sheriff. The deputies page identifies Steve Kivi as chief deputy and Joe Meyer as Deputy/Jail Administrator/Communication Center Supervisor. A separate dispatch and jailers page lists combined dispatch/jailer staff, which matches the county's Public Safety Building model.

Poweshiek County Jail Inmate Lookup

No official Poweshiek County online jail roster, recent booking report, public mugshot gallery, or current-inmate database was located on the county sheriff site. That changes the lookup process. A person searching for a current inmate should start with the sheriff's main number or the public counter, then use court and state systems based on what the sheriff or case record shows.

1. Call 641-623-5679 and ask whether the person is currently in custody at Poweshiek County Jail.
2. Have the full legal name, approximate age or date of birth, and arrest date or case number if known.
3. Ask whether a public booking record, release status, bond amount, or transfer destination can be released by phone.
4. Use Iowa Courts Online for filed criminal cases after court entry.
5. Use Iowa VINELink for custody-status notification when a matching record is available.
6. Use Iowa DOC Offender Search only after sentencing or DOC supervision begins.

For records not resolved by phone or in person, Iowa Chapter 22 public-records rights may apply. Ask the sheriff what record exists and whether the request should identify a booking record, prisoner-calendar entry, release information, transfer record, or booking photo. A request can include the person's full name, date of birth or age, approximate arrest date, case number, preferred delivery method, and a request for a fee estimate before copies are produced.

Poweshiek County Jail Population

The official county pages reviewed did not publish a current live jail population dashboard, current capacity page, average daily population, or current demographic report for Poweshiek County Jail. The sheriff statistics page does publish historical inmates-booked-into-jail counts through 2015, and the Vera Incarceration Trends county dataset provides a 2019 historical jail population and capacity estimate. Those figures are useful context, but they are not a live 2026 inmate count.

The Vera 2019 row listed 9 pretrial and 13 sentenced jail custody counts for Poweshiek County, with 14 male and 4 female counts in the demographic breakdown. The official sheriff statistics table listed historical booking volume, including 604 inmates booked in 2012 and 450 in 2015. Treat those as historical data points, not a current roster or bed count.

Poweshiek County Jail Visitation

Poweshiek County did not publish a jail visitation schedule, visitor registration process, video visit vendor, visitor ID list, dress code, minor-child rule, or prohibited-items list in the official county sources reviewed. Do not use Iowa DOC prison visitation rules for Poweshiek County Jail. Prison visiting rules apply after a person is in an Iowa DOC facility, not while the person is held in the county jail.

The sheriff sales page gives one building-entry detail for public sheriff sales: sales are held at the Poweshiek County Public Safety Building South Door, using the door on the south side at the southwest corner. That instruction is for sheriff sales, not jail visitation. It should not be treated as a visitor entrance for inmates unless jail staff confirms it.

The official sheriff sales instructions identify the Public Safety Building South Door for those sales.

The building detail is useful for confirming the local Public Safety Building name, but custody visits still require a call to the jail.

Poweshiek Jail Mail Phone Money

Poweshiek County did not publish an inmate mail format, commissary deposit vendor, public deposit portal, property-release rule, legal-mail rule, book policy, phone-rate table, or jail handbook in the official county sources reviewed. The sheriff has both a physical address and a P.O. Box, so do not guess which address or format should be used for inmate mail. Call the sheriff before sending letters, books, money orders, property, or publications.

Reliance Telephone lists Poweshiek County Jail at the Barnes City Road address and gives a facility voicemail number of 641-316-0584. That vendor source supports a voicemail channel, but it is not a county jail roster and does not provide a full local jail phone-rate policy.

Use Reliance only for the voicemail detail it supplies, and confirm all current phone, messaging, and account rules with the jail.

Poweshiek Jail Fee Categories

Resolution 2026-9 is a room-and-board and work-release fee schedule, not a public commissary deposit instruction. The Board of Supervisors minutes from August 4, 2025 approved the resolution, and the resolution sets categories for sentenced Poweshiek inmates, Poweshiek work release, out-of-county work release, and inmates from another agency. It does not tell the public how to add money to a commissary account or how to post bond.

Ask the sheriff or the responsible county office where any room-and-board or work-release bill is paid, whether the fee applies to the person at issue, and whether any bond, court cost, restitution, or DOC money rule is a separate matter. Work release can be part of a court-ordered county jail sentence, but the fee schedule does not publish eligibility, employer rules, or a daily release schedule.

Poweshiek County Jail Booking

No local Poweshiek jail intake handbook was located, so the best official path combines the county attorney's criminal-process page with Iowa jail standards. After a reported crime, the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction investigates. If an arrest is made, the person may be transported to the sheriff and jail facility for booking. State jail standards require admission medical history and screening, suicide and self-injury screening, medical policies, medication control, and incident-report procedures.

An initial appearance is set shortly after arrest. At that hearing, the magistrate advises the defendant of the charges and possible consequences, handles counsel rights, may address no-contact orders in certain cases, sets a preliminary-hearing date, and addresses bail conditions. Wednesday includes Magistrate Court and initial appearances on the local court schedule, but hearing times should be confirmed with the clerk.

Booking

Administrative intake after arrest, including identity and custody processing.

Initial appearance

The first court hearing where charges, rights, bail, and next hearing dates are addressed.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency or jurisdiction that can affect release.

Work release

A custody status that may allow approved work time during a county jail sentence.

Poweshiek Jail to DOC Transfer

The Iowa Department of Corrections is separate from Poweshiek County Jail. The county attorney criminal-process page says a court-ordered prison sentence results in immediate custody and transfer by the sheriff to the prison system. After that point, the Iowa DOC offender search becomes the public locator for prison location, offender number, offense, county of commitment, and supervision status. Poweshiek County has no Iowa DOC prison inside the county.

DOC money, visitation, mail, phone, and prison facility rules apply only after DOC custody begins. DOC family services list Access Corrections, JPay, Western Union, Send2Corrections, and mailed money orders to the IDOC Offender Fiduciary Account for DOC offenders. Those are not Poweshiek County Jail commissary rules. If a person cannot be found in the county jail workflow, use DOC search only when sentencing, prison transfer, parole, probation, or DOC supervision is likely.

Poweshiek Public Safety Building

The Public Safety Building is the local sheriff and jail operations address. The county site also shows fingerprinting by appointment through the sheriff number, option 1, and states the building closes on designated holidays while weapons-permit applicants can use the lobby intercom around the clock. Board of Supervisors minutes from September 2025 add local operations context: county officials discussed Public Safety Building maintenance and a Zuercher cloud move for dispatch, jail-management, and records-management software.

Those building and software notes do not create a public inmate roster, but they support the local record-routing picture. Dispatch, jail management, and records management are part of the sheriff operation. For current custody, call the jail. For court filings, use Iowa Courts Online and the Poweshiek Clerk of Court at the courthouse. For prosecution and charging decisions, the Poweshiek County Attorney's Office is the local prosecutor, and its office is listed at the Public Safety Center by appointment only. For prison placement after sentencing, use Iowa DOC. For release notification, use IowaVINE.