How to write to someone at Iowa State Penitentiary
Personal letters for people at Iowa State Penitentiary go to Iowa's mail center below, not to the prison. Fill in the person's name and ID number where marked.
Checked against the department's own pages . How we check, and corrections
PERSONAL LETTERS GO TO
Dashed lines are for you to fill in, in the department's own words.
Don't mail personal letters straight to the prison; they are returned to sender. Send them to the department's central mail processing address instead, and use this facility line: Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) - 1110.
Legal mail from lawyers and courts has its own address or rules: see the department's mail page.
- Where letters go
- To a department-wide mail center, not the prison
- What happens to them
- Scanned
- What they get
- A printed copy
“all incoming non-legal mail must be sent to a central mail processing facility at the following address:” Department source
Street address (not for letters unless the department says so): 2111 330th Ave., PO Box 316, Fort Madison, IA 52627
“Pigeonly will process the following non-legal mail at their offsite facility: Letters (including children's drawings), Greeting cards, Postcards, 4X6 Photos (limit to 10 photos), Unbound newsletters”
No one at Iowa State Penitentiary is listed yet. Know someone there who wants mail? List them for $50.
CorrLinks
You start it from outside.
- Go to corrlinks.com (or the CorrLinks app), agree to the terms and create an account.
- Fund your account with a Visa or Mastercard credit card.
- Add the person to your address book using their state ID number.
- Write and send your message. Facility staff review it and deliver it on their schedule.
Iowa: Called O-mail. $0.25 per o-mail sent. The person inside buys their own o-mail credits to reply.
Questions
What is the mailing address for Iowa State Penitentiary?
Personal mail goes to the department's mail center: Incarcerated Individual Name - Offender ID Number, Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) - 1110, PO Box 96777, Las Vegas, NV 89193.
Is mail scanned at Iowa State Penitentiary?
Yes. Personal letters are scanned at a department-wide mail center. The person receives a printed copy.
Can I message someone at Iowa State Penitentiary electronically?
Iowa uses CorrLinks. On CorrLinks, you make an account, add the person by name and ID number, and pay per message.
Can someone at Iowa State Penitentiary be listed on a pen pal site?
We found no rule in Iowa's published policies against it, and normal mail rules still apply. Rules change; the department's page is the final word.
Something wrong or out of date? Tell us and we fix it from the department's page. How we check.
Sources: Iowa State Penitentiary page, Iowa mail rules, read 2026-10-07. Rules change; the department's page is the final word. Find someone: official inmate locator.