State prison officials have suspended in-person visits with inmates at a southeast Iowa prison. The Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility is a minimum security prison and, according to the Iowa Department of Corrections website, there were over a thousand inmates at...
Two employees at the state’s maximum security prison in Fort Madison were stabbed 16 days ago and state officials today announced two inmates have been charged with attempted murder. Twenty-nine-year-old Dennis Lawson and 23-year-old Anthony Bauer are being...
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...
Inmates at the state prison in Newton began building homes in 2019 and the program has reached a major milestone. The 150th modular home built on a 100-acre site inside the prison complex was delivered to Mason City this week. Melissa Schoneberg is executive director...
State officials have rejected bids from companies applying to provide medical care inside Iowa’s nine prisons and Governor Kim Reynolds says “it made sense” to check to see if a private company could provide those services more efficiently than...
