Recent events, organized by category (below) or region/state (right), concerning the corrections industry in Iowa. Comments, suggestions and contributions (below) appreciated.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Second chances are rare, but Nicholas Nelson is trying to make the most of his after spending more than two years in the juvenile justice system....[more]
Iowa was recently awarded a three-year, $750,000 federal grant from the Office of Management and Budget, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will aid state officials in implementing more effective juvenile justice programming....[more]
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, Monday, July 8, 2013
DES MOINES, Iowa — A Guatemalan man who apparently entered the U.S. illegally after being deported twice has been charged with killing an Iowa woman and her two children....[more]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than two years after an elderly convicted sex offender confessed to sexually assaulting a fellow nursing home resident 85-year-old William Cubbage still hasn't been tried....[more]
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The parents of the 15-year-old Iowa girl who was kidnapped and killed will work with a California nonprofit to push for stricter sentencing and monitoring for sex offenders who target children, the group told......[more]
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Authorities say a 32-year-old man died inside a northwest Iowa jail this weekend. The man was found dead Saturday in his cell at the Woodbury County jail in Sioux City...[more]
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) - Marshalltown Police are searching for an inmate who did not return from work release. Waterloo television station KWWL reports (http://bit.ly/15jF38b) that 40-year-old Casey Eugene Sheriff never returned to the ......[more]
FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) - Officials have placed the Iowa State Penitentiary and Clinical Care Unit in Fort Madison under restricted movement following the discovery of suspicious items....[more]
The agency says in a news release Tuesday that 32-year-old Thomas Huisman was found unresponsive in his cell on Saturday and couldn't be revived....[more]
* Adam Moss, 35, was found hanging with a bed sheet around his neck tied to wall vent in his cell Wednesday * In 2001 he beat his girlfriend, Leticia Aguilar, 31, and her five children, aged 6 to 12, to death with a hammer...[more]
CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) - The Department of Corrections says a 38-year-old inmate in a mental health unit in Coralville has killed himself. Officials say in a news release that Alex James Mabe was found early Monday, hanged with a bed sheet ......[more]
Associated Press, Monday, June 3, 2013
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