The Iowa House has voted to toughen Iowa’s law on habitual offenders and set a minimum 20-year prison sentence for people convicted of several serious crimes. Representative Steve Holt, a Republican from Denison, said it would be a mandatory sentence of at least...
People convicted of several serious crimes would face a minimum 20-year prison sentence without parole under a bill advancing in the Iowa House. During a House subcommittee hearing, Mahaska County Attorney Andrew Ritland said he’s prosecuted people with more...