The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. MARENGO - Cleanliness and innovation might not be words that come to mind when thinking of an Iowa jail, ...

Iowa crime victims can keep track of inmates in jail and prison using a new mobile app.The state Attorney General's Office said Thursday the free VINEMobile app will allow crime victims and the public ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A judge says staff at an Iowa jail must allow a man charged with killing a state trooper to meet privately with his lawyers. Officials at the Black Hawk County jail in Waterloo ...

Authorities say they've captured two men who escaped from the Jackson County Jail last week. Clinton police say 20-year-old Brian Willey and 19-year-old Andrew Combs were captured after a short foot ...

The ACLU has filed a class-action lawsuit against an Iowa sheriff and county over the daily fees charged to inmates in the county jail. Getty Images As inmates process out of Black Hawk County Jail in ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - One by one, four women positioned their bare feet on yoga mats around the drab-carpeted, makeshift studio in downtown Davenport. “We’ll start in the Mountain Pose,” Joan ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A judge accepted the guilty pleas Tuesday of a man charged with killing a sheriff”s deputy and wounding another while escaping from an Iowa jail. Wesley Correa-Carmenaty, ...

SCOTT COUNTY, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Scott County Jail workers allowed a woman in mental distress to repeatedly bang her head against cell walls for hours without intervening or providing ...