A Grimes man, who is being held in the Linn County Jail after an 11-hour standoff with Cedar Rapids police in February over a ...

Iowa’s measure was enacted amid a wave of similar legislation around the country, driven by Republican lawmakers, to prohibit ...

Christopher Kern, the man involved in a nearly 11-hour standoff with police at the Chelsea apartment complex last February, ...

After a routine dental appointment and while leaving in restraints, a man tried to escape from the two Linn County Sheriff’s ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

SCORE, which contracts jail services to multiple cities, is also alleged to have had longstanding issues with inadequate ...

Martinez Morales claims an inmate planted the drugs in her bag as a setup. A confidential informant tipped off authorities about the drugs, leading to a search of Martinez Morales' belongings.

The House approved a plan for Iowa Health and Human Services to reimburse county jails $50 per day for holding sexually violent predators.

Tucked away five miles south of Newton, Iowa, Newton Correctional Facility holds 938 low- and medium-security inmates. The facility is also the site of Homes for Iowa, a nonprofit organization that ...

The third legislative coffee of the series touched on topics like property taxes, gender identity and cancer rates.

Francis Donald Heim Jr. knew that what he was doing was wrong. He knew that the sexually explicit messages intended for a 14-year-old girl were, at least, very inappropriate and, at most, illegal and ...