Prison News | Iowa

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• Gangs in Prison
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• Prison Conditions & Corruption
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• Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
• Suicides in Prison
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Education & Rehabilitation

• Sioux City program offers second chance to young adults with criminal past
  
  SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Second chances are rare, but Nicholas Nelson is trying to make the most of his after spending more than two years in the juvenile justice system.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Saturday, July 27, 2013
  
  
• Iowa Awarded Federal Grant to Improve Juvenile Justice Programming
  
  Iowa was recently awarded a three-year, $750,000 federal grant from the Office of Management and Budget, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will aid state officials in implementing more effective juvenile justice programming.... [ more ]
  Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, Monday, July 8, 2013
  
  

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

• Twice deported illegal alien charged with Iowa murder of 3
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — A Guatemalan man who apparently entered the U.S. illegally after being deported twice has been charged with killing an Iowa woman and her two children.... [ more ]
  GOPUSA, Monday, July 22, 2019
  
  

Gangs in Prison

• New unit will house Iowa's special needs prisoners
  
  More than 40-percent of Iowa's prison population is classified as having special needs, with either behavioral or mental health problems...... [ more ]
  Radio Iowa , Monday, June 4, 2007
  
  
• Iowa fails its mentally ill citizens at every level
  
  Mentally ill Iowans are suffering inadequate and inappropriate treatment behind prison walls... [ more ]
  DesMoinesRegister, Monday, June 4, 2007
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

• Iowa fails its mentally ill citizens at every level
  
  Mentally ill Iowans are suffering inadequate and inappropriate treatment behind prison walls... [ more ]
  DesMoinesRegister, Monday, June 4, 2007
  
  

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• Floyd County reviews plans for jail operations
  
  CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) | Floyd County in northeast Iowa is reviewing its plans to move some jail services to another county.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, March 31, 2014
  
  
• Trial in Iowa nursing home assault delayed
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than two years after an elderly convicted sex offender confessed to sexually assaulting a fellow nursing home resident 85-year-old William Cubbage still hasn't been tried.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Sunday, September 29, 2013
  
  
• Family of slain Iowa teen to work with Calif. group to seek 1-strike law for child predators
  
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The parents of the 15-year-old Iowa girl who was kidnapped and killed will work with a California nonprofit to push for stricter sentencing and monitoring for sex offenders who target children, the group told...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, July 5, 2013
  
  
• New unit will house Iowa's special needs prisoners
  
  More than 40-percent of Iowa's prison population is classified as having special needs, with either behavioral or mental health problems...... [ more ]
  Radio Iowa , Monday, June 4, 2007
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

Prison Life & Culture

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• Authorities investigate death of 32-year-old man in northwest Iowa jail this weekend
  
  SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Authorities say a 32-year-old man died inside a northwest Iowa jail this weekend. The man was found dead Saturday in his cell at the Woodbury County jail in Sioux City... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Sunday, August 18, 2013
  
  
• Iowa authorities looking for Marshalltown inmate who did not return Thursday from work release
  
  MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) - Marshalltown Police are searching for an inmate who did not return from work release. Waterloo television station KWWL reports (http://bit.ly/15jF38b) that 40-year-old Casey Eugene Sheriff never returned to the ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, August 2, 2013
  
  
• Officials place Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison under restricted movement
  
  FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) - Officials have placed the Iowa State Penitentiary and Clinical Care Unit in Fort Madison under restricted movement following the discovery of suspicious items.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, June 24, 2013
  
  

Suicides in Prison

• Autopsy shows Woodbury County Jail death of 32-year-old inmate was suicide
  
  The agency says in a news release Tuesday that 32-year-old Thomas Huisman was found unresponsive in his cell on Saturday and couldn't be revived.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, August 20, 2013
  
  
• Iowa man who killed 7�including his girlfriend and her 5 children�commits suicide in prison
  
  * Adam Moss, 35, was found hanging with a bed sheet around his neck tied to wall vent in his cell Wednesday * In 2001 he beat his girlfriend, Leticia Aguilar, 31, and her five children, aged 6 to 12, to death with a hammer... [ more ]
  Daily Mail Online, Friday, June 28, 2013
  
  
• Corrections Department says inmate serving time for robbery hangs himself at Coralville unit
  
  CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) - The Department of Corrections says a 38-year-old inmate in a mental health unit in Coralville has killed himself. Officials say in a news release that Alex James Mabe was found early Monday, hanged with a bed sheet ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, June 3, 2013
  
  

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