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Ed Tibbetts/Iowa Capital Dispatch

Ed Tibbetts has covered Iowa politics, government and trends for more than three decades. A former reporter and editorial page editor for the Quad-City Times, he now is a freelance journalist who publishes the Along the Mississippi newsletter on Substack. He is a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative.

Civil rights group objects to using federal COVID aid for prisons

By: Ed Tibbetts/Iowa Capital Dispatch and Jim Small - January 23, 2023

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Treasury Department to take a harder line on states and local governments using federal American Rescue Plan Act money to build and expand correctional facilities. One of the projects it cited is in Arizona, where prison officials said they planned to spend $4.2 million to renovate executive […]

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