North Central Correctional Facility News

ROCKWELL CITY Jim McKinney's job may seem like a contradiction. As the warden of North Central Correctional Facility, McKinney gives the inmates of the facility the opportunity to help others and themselves.

Twenty-three children, their parents and several North Central Correctional Facility staff members left the admissions gate at the facility with a head count of 44 people - and zero bikes - for the short walk to the gym.

The interpretation of a fiscal discrepancy in inmate pay between the Department of Corrections and the office of Citizen's Aide/Ombudsman has been turned over to the Iowa attorney general's office for review.

State budget cuts affecting the Department of Corrections are still up in the air.

The jobs of 74 corrections workers in the Fort Dodge area appear to depend on the possibility of unions reaching an agreement with Gov.

Fifty-one positions at the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility are expected to be eliminated due to state-wide budget cuts.

On any given workday, Chad Kelchen might enter data in a computer, fix a toilet, collect fees and patch up a washed out trail.

Gov. Chet Culver is preparing to cut the state's general fund budget by 10 percent and the impact of his work may be felt in local schools, state parks and the two prisons in the Fort Dodge area.

As inmates of North Central Correctional Facility, the offenders there have little freedom or independence.

Do a good turn daily. Service above self. ... To help other people at all times.