According to court records Alisa Rilla Nichols Staats, 30, of Muscatine, will spend not more than five years in prison ... Staats will be taken to the Iowa Medical and Classification Center ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A man charged with ... guilty Friday and was immediately sentenced to life in prison. Russell Overlin, 52, of Mitchellville, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree ...

Michael Karl Geilenfeld was sentenced to 210 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually abusing children at the St.

A prison guard fired in Fort Dodge gets unemployment benefits after state fails to back up allegation she had inmate romance ...

CORALVILLE, Iowa (WOWT) - A man serving time in prison for sexual assault died in an Iowa prison Tuesday. In a release sent Thursday, the Iowa Department of Corrections said Raymond Miller was ...

ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa (KTIV) - A Northwest Iowa correctional facility is working to set its inmates up for success by providing them with a higher education while serving their time. KTIV was ...

A bill that’s cleared an Iowa House subcommittee would set up a “prison infrastructure fund” and launch a study of the nine state-run prisons. Representative Brian Lohse, a Republican from ...

The recent escapes follow several other high-profile breakouts, like that of Danilo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison, sparking a two-week manhunt, and the escape ...

Iowa law enforcement is asking for the public's help in finding a man who escaped from a work release program.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Alton Buford was wanted. Buford, 37, was wanted by the Iowa Department of Corrections District 7 High Risk Unit for escape from Davenport Residential Correctional Facility ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - A judge sentenced an Iowa City man to more than 16 years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography. Law enforcement seized five electronic devices with ...