Locate Building 70 Records

Building 70 Overview

Fort Des Moines Community Corrections Complex Building 70 is listed by the Iowa DOC Fifth Judicial District Department of Correctional Services at 70 Thayer St., Des Moines, IA 50315. The official phone is (515) 242-6905 and the fax is (515) 242-6961. It is part of the Fort Des Moines community corrections complex serving Polk County and the Fifth Judicial District. It should be described as a community corrections, residential placement, or state work-release setting, not as the Polk County Jail.

The Fifth District page lists services that include residential placement, state work release, pretrial interviews, pretrial supervision, probation, parole supervision, electronic monitoring, federal clients, fugitive unit work, mental health programming, drug treatment court, sex offender programming, and other treatment or supervision functions. Building 70 fits within that community corrections network. A person may live at a residential center while working, reporting, following program rules, and remaining under DOC or court supervision.

The research did not locate a public capacity or average daily population number for Building 70. It also did not locate a public building-specific roster, mugshot list, or release list. That absence should not be filled with Polk County Jail data. The jail dashboard is useful for adult jail population, but it is not a Building 70 census.

The official Fifth District facilities page is the best matching image source for Fort Des Moines community corrections. The screenshot below comes from the Iowa DOC Fifth District page that lists services and Des Moines facilities.

Use the Fifth District source for building contacts and program context, then verify individual status through the correct lookup or office.

Building 70 Capacity

No accessible official source in the project research published a capacity, rated bed count, or average daily population for Building 70. Because this is a community corrections building rather than the adult jail, the Polk County Jail's 1,500-bed capacity and monthly jail dashboard figures should not be assigned to it. The most precise public description available is its role as a Fifth District community corrections and residential/work-release facility.

When a public capacity is not available, the safer status question is whether the person is currently assigned there, whether they are under parole, probation, pretrial, work release, or residential placement, and which office can confirm the permitted contact. Those details can be more important than bed count for families trying to schedule a visit or send mail.

Look Up Building 70 Status

Building 70 is not searched through the Polk County current-inmate list unless the person is physically held at Polk County Jail. Lookup depends on the person's legal status. For sentenced DOC or community corrections status, use Iowa DOC Offender Search. For pending cases or pretrial supervision, use Iowa Courts Online and the court record. For program-specific details, call the Fifth District facility or district office. If the person was arrested very recently, then the county jail roster may still be relevant for the initial custody stage.

1. Search Iowa DOC Offender Search by name or offender number if the person is in DOC custody or community corrections.
2. Use the Location field carefully because Fifth District can appear for community corrections rather than prison housing.
3. Check Iowa Courts Online for pretrial, probation, parole-revocation, or sentencing context tied to Polk County cases.
4. Call Building 70 at (515) 242-6905 for facility-specific routing when public tools do not answer the status question.
5. Use Polk County Jail only if the person is arrested, booked, detained, or returned to the jail rather than assigned to the residential program.

A work-release or community corrections placement can include rules about employment, movement, reporting, testing, treatment, curfew, and approved visitors. Those program rules are not the same as bond, jail visitation, or jail commissary rules. Direct contact with the facility is often required before any visit or delivery.

Building 70 Contact

The contact card should be used for facility routing, not as a substitute for court orders or DOC records. For a person on pretrial supervision, probation, parole, or work release, the supervising officer or program contact may be the correct source. For a person returned to jail, the Polk County Jail phone and roster become relevant again.

Building 70 Visits

The research did not locate a public Building 70 visiting schedule with open hours by day. Community corrections visits are often governed by program status, security rules, approval, and the resident's supervision plan. Do not apply Polk County Jail's ICSolutions video schedule to Building 70 unless Fifth District staff specifically direct a visitor to that process. Call the facility before travel.

Visitors should ask about identification, parking, dress rules, items that may be brought inside, and whether the resident is eligible for a visit. A person assigned to work release may be away from the building for approved work or programming during parts of the day.

Building 70 Mail and Money

Building 70 mail, phone, and money rules were not published in the accessible official research. DOC family-service rules may apply in some contexts, but community corrections can have local procedures that differ from prison mail processing and adult jail commissary. Confirm the person's status first, then ask Fifth District staff which mail address, property limits, phone rules, or payment channels are allowed.

If the person is a sentenced DOC offender, DOC offender banking or DOC family-service channels may be relevant. If the person is on pretrial supervision, the court record and supervising office may matter more than a deposit account.

Building 70 Intake

Intake to Building 70 is not a street-arrest booking. It generally follows a court order, DOC assignment, supervision decision, revocation process, work-release placement, or residential-program referral. The person may have a Polk County criminal case, a DOC offender record, or a supervision file. The exact route depends on whether the person is pretrial, sentenced, on probation, on parole, in work release, or under another Fifth District program.

The facility can also be part of a custody change. A person may move from jail to residential placement, from residential placement back to jail after an alleged violation, or from local custody into DOC custody after sentencing. Those moves explain why a single search can fail if only one system is checked. The county jail roster, Iowa DOC search, Iowa Courts Online, and direct Fifth District contact each answer a different part of the custody question.

About Building 70

Building 70 is one of several Polk County community corrections facilities listed through the Iowa DOC Fifth District. The Fifth District also lists Fort Des Moines Building 65/66, Fort Des Moines Building 68, and Fresh Start Women's Center. Together, these facilities show that correctional custody in Polk County is not limited to the Sheriff's adult jail and the Mitchellville state prison. Community corrections can include residential accountability while allowing work, treatment, supervision, and gradual transition.

Because the facility is program-based, the most accurate language is "community corrections client," "resident," "work-release participant," or "supervised person" when the exact status is not known. Calling every person an inmate can blur the difference between jail detention and DOC community placement. For facility-wide context on the county system, the Polk County inmate population page separates county jail, state prison, federal, juvenile, and community corrections channels.