The head of the Iowa Department of Corrections announced Monday that he will retire at the end of December.  Jerry Bartruff made the announcement at the end of his budget presentation to the governor. Bartruff is calling for a budget that is about the same as last year.

Bartruff laid out some of the issues they’ve faced.

The Corrections Department Budget last year was roughly 450-million dollars.

There are seven-thousand-739 men in prison and 730 women.  The number of men went up by 100 in the last fiscal year, while the number of women dropped by nine.