State faces nearly $2 billion cost as inmate population projected to surge 50 percent.

Iowa may need to build three new prisons to accommodate a new measure the governor signed into law this week.

By state estimates, HF 2542 will cost nearly $2 billion in prison construction to build three new medium security prisons and ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a 3-strikes bill that more than doubles the minimum sentence for habitual offenders and could cost ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A break in occurred at the construction site of the new Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison last ...

A nonprofit is trying to save an empty Iowa penitentiary that dates to the 1830s as questions loom about what to do with a sprawling complex. The Des Moines Register reports that Historic Iowa State ...

The Iowa Court of Appeals has ruled that the daughter of Lorena Schulte, a nurse killed during an attempted escape at Anamosa State Penitentiary, can continue her lawsuit against the state.