Iowa regulators have sanctioned a second state-employed nurse in the 2025 death of an inmate at the Newton Correctional Facility. In October 2025, the Iowa Board of Nursing charged two Department of Corrections nurses — Penny Lynn Daniels of Newton and David Arterburn of Altoona — with committing an act that might adversely affect a patient’s […]

Iowa regulators have issued an emergency order suspending the license of a physician associate who was accused of having sex with a prison-inmate patient while working for the Iowa Department of Corrections. The Iowa Board of Physician Associates has charged Kyle L. Parks with unethical conduct, an offense the board describes as including verbally or […]