Editor's Note: On Nov. 20, 2025, nearly a week after The Midwest Newsroom asked the Iowa Department of Corrections to comment for this article, department communications specialist Zach Carlyle ...
Iowa issued a request for proposals in July to explore privatizing prison health care, but it now says it won't award a ...
The Oregon Department of Corrections plans to pay an outside consultant an estimated $550,000 over the next year to assess the prison system’s troubled health care system, records show. The state this ...
Two top officials overseeing medical care at the Oregon Department of Corrections have been fired as the prison system’s health care standards come under scrutiny. Corrections Director Mike Reese on ...