Muscatine County’s agreement to jail ICE detainees remains secret

By: Clark Kauffman

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: February 20, 2026

Words: 1,169

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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Muscatine County, which has a contract to hold immigration detainees for the federal government, is refusing to publicly disclose its copy of that contract.

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. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

Like other Iowa counties, Muscatine County has a …

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