Editor's Note: On Nov. 20, 2025, nearly a week after The Midwest Newsroom asked the Iowa Department of Corrections to comment for this article, department communications specialist Zach Carlyle ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - The percentage of Iowa re-offenders has generally gone down over the last decade to its lowest rate, this year, of 32.8%. It’s a three percentage point decrease from fiscal ...

The Iowa Dental Board has reinstated the license of a Waterloo dentist convicted of being intoxicated at the state prison where he was providing dental care for inmates.

State prison officials are evaluating the cost of installing air conditioning in the housing units at the state prison in Mount Pleasant. During this month’s Board of Corrections meeting, Iowa ...

This editorial by Lucas Grundmeier represents the views of the Register's editorial board. Iowa local and state governments should be commended for tackling the problem of overcrowded prisons and ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - The widow of an Anamosa prison guard who was killed four years ago is fighting what she claims is a state effort to limit workplace rights before the Iowa Supreme Court. Sara ...

A Sioux City man serving life in prison has died. The Iowa Department of Corrections reports 63-year-old Mathew Scott Hallum died Tuesday in hospice at the Iowa Medical Classification Center in ...