Iowa regulators have suspended the license of a state-employed nurse accused of providing inadequate care for a prison inmate who died hours later. In October 2025, the board charged Penny Lynn ...
More than 2,000 incarcerated Iowans and correctional officers are enduring 90-plus-degree heat without air conditioning this ...
MINUTES WITH HIGHLIGHTS FROM TODAY’S ACTION. SO FAR, YOU’RE LOOKING LIVE AT THE IOWA STATE HOUSE ON THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON, WHERE LAWMAKERS ADVANCE A NUMBER OF BILLS THAT COULD IMPACT YOU. STARTING ...
Iowans, especially corrections workers, will pay a heavy price unless House File 2542 is revised, writes Bryan Widenhouse.
As summer temperatures rise into the 90s, more than 1,000 Iowa prisoners and correctional officers are sweating it out ...
DES MOINES — State funding would be designated toward expanding current prisons or constructing new correctional facilities in Iowa under legislation advanced by Iowa House lawmakers Monday as the ...
The Iowa State Penitentiary has a new warden. Janie Mendez has been named as the new warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) by the Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC). Mendez brings over 20 ...
FORT MADISON, Iowa (KTIV) - A second Sioux City man in prison for other crimes has pleaded not guilty to charges of stabbing two correctional officers while at the Iowa State Penitentiary. Dennis ...
Iowa regulators have suspended the license of a state-employed nurse accused of providing inadequate care for a prison inmate who died hours later.