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He said he received reports that another inmate helped stop the assault.
Prison guard assaulted at Iowa's Anamosa State Penitentiary →
That is why we believe the department's classification system - how they classify inmates and put them in work programs - is totally screwed up,” said Danny Homan, president of the union that represents prison workers, who has also pointed to shortages of funding and staff as a problem.
Inmate charged in Iowa prison deaths had threatened before →
