Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps says the county will be receiving more money for holding federal prisoners. He has ...

Prison guards found 36-year-old J. Trinidad Ramirez stabbed to death in the J Housing Unit of the prison on Nov. 26.

A man named as a person of interest in connection with the March 1st murder of Symora Reaves at the H2O Nightclub in Marion County has now been charged, accordi ...

A Marion County jail inmate has been convicted of killing his cellmate. A Marion County judge recently delivered the guilty verdict to D’Angelo Smith. Prosecutors said that in June 2022, Smith ...

The Marion Police Department is conducting an internal use-of-force review into the February officer-involved shooting that ended with a Marion teenager’s death. Officer Spenser Hartman on Feb. 4 ...

Inmate D'Angelo Smith convicted of killing cellmate by strangling in Marion County jail. Motive unclear, sentencing set for April 22.

One day after the Iowa Attorney General's Office deemed the deadly shooting of an 18-year-old wielding a machete justified, Marion Police released 911 audio and ...

Marion police released new bodycam footage Tuesday in the shooting of 18-year-old Saber Bernard after the Iowa Attorney General’s Office ruled the shooting justified earlier this week.

An inmate at the Marion County Adult Detention Center has been charged with smuggling the drugs that killed another inmate in ...

A drug screen showed fentanyl, buproprione, busperone and nalaxone in his system, along with other chemicals.

WFYI obtained the 2025 data through a public records request to provide a clearer picture of how people move through the immigration enforcement process in the local jail.