Iowa Medical and Classification Center News

An inmate died of natural causes Saturday in the Iowa Medical and Classification Center infirmary in Oakdale.

Rita Wolf Berg 65, of St. Donatus, Iowa, and her sister, Helen Wolf Kemp, 71, of Dubuque, occasionally receive checks for a few dollars from a victim restitution case in which their father was cheated out of several thousand dollars.

Rita Wolf Berg 65, of St. Donatus, Iowa, and her sister, Helen Wolf Kemp, 71, of Dubuque, occasionally receive checks for a few dollars from a victim restitution case in which their father was cheated out of several thousand dollars.

Associated Press - July 14, 2009 1:14 PM ET IOWA CITY, Iowa - A paralyzed inmate being held in the Iowa Medical and Classification Center outside Iowa City is costing Linn County taxpayers more than $3,000 daily.

They may be serving time for a variety of reasons, but Tuesday, several offenders donned a cap and gown to receive their GEDs.

Iowa County Sheriff officials said Tonch Weldon, charged with first-degree murder, was transferred from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to the medical wing of Iowa Medical and Classification Center, 2700 Coral Ridge Ave., Coralville.

The exterior slider doors of the Linn County Jail have been opening when they're not suppose to, but Sheriff Brian Gardner says Friday the electrical kinks should be worked out soon.

The trial of Matthew Wallace, whom authorities say kidnapped and assaulted a Fairfield college student, could be on hold pending a psychological evaluation.

A state corrections officer investigated for allegedly celebrating the death of a prison warden has been fired for distributing bumper stickers that disparage the Oakdale prison.

An inmate at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Oakdale was charged Wednesday for assaulting a guard last month.