What prison is Cody Brown incarcerated in and what security level is it?
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Executive summary
Available sources show multiple individuals named “Cody Brown” in news and public records but do not provide a single, definitive current prison location or security-level assignment for a specific Cody Brown you may mean (search results mention sentencing in Iowa, a 2019 Cedar Rapids sentence, and various inmate-roster or aggregator entries) [1] [2] [3]. No source in the provided set states unequivocally “Cody Brown is incarcerated at [named prison] with [security level]” (not found in current reporting).
1. Multiple people, multiple records — the name problem
Reporting and public records returned by the search include at least three distinct threads involving people named Cody Brown: (a) Cody Davis Brown charged and later sentenced in Iowa for methamphetamine-related offenses with a 20-year term noted in a Buchanan County press release [1]; (b) a different local case in Linn County, Iowa, where a Cody Brown was sentenced up to five years in connection with a 2018 death, reported by The Gazette [2]; and (c) online inmate-aggregator or county-roster entries that list a Cody Brown in county jails in Arkansas or Pennsylvania [3] [4]. Those multiple, overlapping results make it unsafe to assume all references point to the same person [1] [2] [3].
2. What the Buchanan County press release actually says
A Buchanan County (Iowa) press release details that Cody Davis Brown was sentenced in 2018 to 20 years after being convicted for Manufacturing Methamphetamine and related precursor-possession counts; that release discusses the investigation and lab results that led to the charges [1]. The press release documents charges and the sentence but does not list a current Department of Corrections facility or the security level of his incarceration in the materials provided here [1].
3. The Linn County case is a separate record and lists a different sentence
The Gazette’s reporting describes a Cody Brown who was sentenced up to five years for conduct connected with the 2018 death of a girlfriend; the article covers courtroom moments, restitution and fines, and the sentence determination, but it does not identify an exact prison facility or a security classification for that defendant in the stories provided [2].
4. Online aggregators and county rosters can be inconsistent
An inmate-aggregator site and county roster entries returned in the search suggest a Cody Brown associated with Faulkner County Jail (Conway, Arkansas) or Bucks County/Bucks County Department of Corrections (Doylestown, PA) in separate entries [3] [4] [5]. These commercial or third‑party listings often conflate individuals with the same name or pull transient jail-booking data; they are not authoritative proof of a long-term prison assignment or a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) security level [3] [4] [5].
5. No source here provides a BOP security-level assignment
Federal security classifications (minimum, low, medium, high, administrative) are maintained by the Bureau of Prisons; a general explainer on BOP security levels exists in the results, but none of the materials provided tie a named Cody Brown to a specific BOP facility or list his custody/security classification [6] [7]. In short: the dataset contains explanations of security-level categories but not an assignment for any Cody Brown in these search results [6] [7].
6. How to get a definitive answer — sources the current set lacks
To confirm the exact facility and security level for a particular person you must match identifying details (full name including middle name, date of birth, inmate register number) and then check authoritative custody tools: state DOC inmate locators, the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator, or official county jail rosters. Those authoritative queries are not present among the provided sources; therefore, the exact prison and security level for the Cody Brown you mean is not stated in the current reporting (not found in current reporting).
7. Credibility and potential agendas in the provided sources
Local newspapers and official county press releases (Buchanan County and The Gazette) are primary-source reporting for the cases they cover and supply sentencing information [1] [2]. By contrast, aggregator and commercial inmate-profile sites can be error-prone and often aim to drive traffic or monetize lookups; treat those with caution [3] [4]. The search set also includes unrelated celebrity/legal references to a “Kody/Kody Brown” (Sister Wives) which could confuse searches and are not relevant to criminal-custody questions [8] [9].
8. Bottom line and next steps
Available sources in this dataset document sentencing events involving people named Cody Brown and list various county-level custody mentions, but none provide a single, verifiable statement of the current prison facility and security-level assignment for a particular Cody Brown [1] [2] [3]. If you can supply a middle name, date of birth, or the jurisdiction (state and case identifier), I can re-check the supplied sources for a match; otherwise you should query the relevant state DOC or the Federal BOP inmate locator for an authoritative facility and custody-level answer (not found in current reporting).