Tucked away five miles south of Newton, Iowa, Newton Correctional Facility holds 938 low- and medium-security inmates. The ...

They’re both serving sentences of life in prison. The lawsuit alleges the Anamosa prison was over-capacity and under-staffed for at least five months before McFarland and Schulte were fatally ...

On the day Robert McFarland was killed, there were supposed to be three corrections officers assigned to the Anamosa State Penitentiary infirmary, according to his wife, Sara Montague McFarland.

Nearly four years ago, two Anamosa inmates serving sentences of 40 and 20 years felt they had nothing to lose as they planned an escape. In the process they killed a prison nurse and a guard and ...