A judge has ordered the federal government to state why it has jailed, for almost two years, an immigration detainee now being held in the Muscatine County Jail.

In recent months, Muscatine County’s jail administrator has been named in five lawsuits related to the county’s agreement to jail some of the immigrants who are picked up in Iowa by the U.S.

A federal judge ordered the Muscatine County Jail to release an ICE detainee who had been incarcerated for almost a year after a judge ruled in his favor on an asylum request. Court records indicate ...

MUSCATINE COUNTY, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Muscatine County has agreed to pay $85,000 to settle claims that it discriminated against a former jail administrator due to his anti-Muslim and ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa (KWQC) - A former jailer in Muscatine County will receive nearly $87,000 from the county to settle a lawsuit. Dean Naylor was fired by the county over online posts he made about ...

(IOWA CAPITOL DISPATCH) - The Muscatine County Jail was promised a 75% increase in potential revenue for holding federal immigration detainees during the first year of the Trump administration’s ...

On Jan. 16, the Iowa Capital Dispatch asked Muscatine County Sheriff Quinn Riess and Jail Administrator Matt McCleary for a copy of the county’s contract with ICE. Neither Riess nor McCleary responded ...

MUSCATINE COUNTY, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - A federal judge has ordered the Muscatine County Jail to release an ICE detainee who had been incarcerated for almost a year after a judge ruled in his ...