State officials have rejected bids from companies applying to provide medical care inside Iowa’s nine prisons and Governor Kim Reynolds says “it made sense” to check to see if a private company could provide those services more efficiently than state-paid prison staff. “Making sure that we’re using taxpayer dollars wisely,” Reynolds told reporters on Tuesday […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






