State prison officials have suspended in-person visits with inmates at a southeast Iowa prison. The Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility is a minimum security prison and, according to the Iowa Department of Corrections website, there were over a thousand inmates at the facility this morning. The agency’s news release indicates visitations via video link will continue […]

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






