criminal justice

A grand jury has indicted Des Moines resident Doug Jensen on six charges for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump extremists. Photos and videos of the Des Moines resident during the siege have been circulated widely, showing him wearing a QAnon T-shirt and confronting law enforcement officers.

Starting next month, some Linn County defendants accused of possessing small amounts of marijuana may be able to avoid a criminal record, under a new diversion program. But there are concerns the program's restrictions may reinforce racial disparities.

Iowa imprisons Black people at a rate more than ten times that of white people, one of the largest racial disparities in prison populations in the country. Researchers link the causes of these discrepancies to the legacy of generations of discrimination and implicit bias.

In the wake of the first publicly-known death of an Iowa Department of Corrections employee due to COVID-19, the head of the union representing corrections workers in Iowa is calling for the state's prisons to "shelter-in-place" in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus behind bars.

Survivors of sexual assault in Iowa can now track where an evidence kit is being held and whether it has been analyzed by the state criminal lab.

Students, government officials and former felons talked about their key concerns for the presidential election at the Brown and Black Forum roundtable this week.

A new report from The Sentencing Project estimates more than 45,000 Iowans with felony convictions have had their voting rights restored since 2016, mostly because of an executive order by Gov. Kim Reynolds. But Black Iowans are still disproportionately disenfranchised.

Prominent Black Lives Matter organizer Matthew Bruce has been charged with first degree criminal mischief after Des Moines police accused him of…

The Iowa City City Council voted Tuesday night to develop a plan to restructure the city’s police department, at the urging of local Black Lives Matter…

Hundreds of protesters marched in Cedar Rapids Saturday for the second weekend in a row, with organizers calling for the city council to address specific…