Sioux City Work Release Inmate (Sex Offender) listed as escaped

December 2nd, 2016 by Ric Hanson

(Update 6:15-a.m.: Meyer was apprehended today at 1-a.m. and is being held in the Woodbury County Jail.)

The Iowa Department of Corrections reports a male inmate at the Sioux City Work Release Facility (WRF) who was listed as escaped Thursday night when he failed to return to the WRF from his place of employment, was apprehended early this (Friday) morning. 32-year old Michael Allen Meyer had been ordered to Work Release following a Lifetime Sex Offender Special Sentence Parole (SSP) revocation, on Oct. 13th. He was transferred to SSP in Feb., 2014. His sentence for Sexual Abuse in the 3rd Degree out of Woodbury County, began in Nov., 2010.