Articles Tagged: Iowa Department of Corrections

Iowa will hire an outside firm to conduct a review of its prisons, following the killings of two employees by …

The Iowa Department of Corrections is seeking an outside vendor to review all parts of the prison system, from staffing and inmate classification to the safety of buildings where more than 8,000 offenders are housed.

Attack comes a month after deadly incident

‘I am beside myself when I go in a cellblock that has 300 offenders and two prison guards’

Iowa OSHA violations, understaffing preceded murders of correctional officer and nurse

Why don’t the union’s numbers match those from the Corrections Department?

House, Senate differ on funding levels

’People died, I believe, potentially because radio systems did not work’