Iowa’s Office of Ombudsman, which investigates complaints related to local and state government, opened 6,266 cases this year. Of those, 56 percent involved the Iowa Department of Corrections, and 24 percent involved the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.
State investigators found that two jails restrained inmates in chairs for excessive amounts of time. One jail used the restraints punitively, and the other confined someone who was having a mental health crisis.
The Iowa Ombudsman’s Office released a report Thursday saying county jails across the state should stop collecting money for medical expenses from inmates who haven’t been convicted of a crime.
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Complaints to the Iowa Ombudsman about unemployment claims tripled in fiscal 2021, with a large share coming from Iowans awarded jobless benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic and then later told they had to repay the money.
Jackson County sheriff’s deputies erred when they did not investigate a neighboring county prosecutor for drunken driving after encountering her intoxicated in her car on the side of a highway late one night in 2019, a state investigation has concluded.
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