Muscatine County

Notes on the record

• Muscatine County names its jail plainly — 'Muscatine County Jail', 414 E. Third St., Muscatine — on the Sheriff's Office Jail Division page, and names the people who run it: Sheriff Quinn Riess, Captain Matt McCleary as Jail Administrator and Lieutenant Nick Doy as Assistant Jail Administrator.
• The Sheriff's Office publishes annual reports for every year from 2011 through 2025 at https://www.muscatinecountyiowa.gov/sheriff/annual_reports/. The 2024 report was read in full: it names Sheriff Quinn Riess and Capt. Matt McCleary but carries no rated capacity, bed count, average daily population, booking total, jail budget figure, boarding revenue or per-diem rate, and no death-in-custody, inspection or PREA information. That is why capacity, budget, contracts and deaths are marked 'no' despite a long published report series.
• The Jail Division page links a county-domain PREA page (https://www.muscatinecountyiowa.gov/sheriff/prison_rape_elimination_act_prea/). That page could not be opened in this session, so whether it publishes audit results is unverified and the prea check is recorded 'no' rather than guessed.
• The Jail Division page routes commissary deposits to the Access Corrections vendor and publishes visitation hours, but no phone, video-visit or commissary rate schedule appears on the county's own domain, so fees is 'no'.
• Jail inspection: Iowa inspects every jail every year but the state does not publish the report. Iowa Code 356.43 requires the Iowa Department of Corrections and its inspectors to make periodic inspections of every jail and municipal holding facility, and Iowa Admin. Code 201—50.3 requires the chief jail inspector to visit and inspect each jail within the state at least annually, with 201—50.2(3) allowing those visits to be unannounced and requiring jail staff to produce all books, records, medical records, data, documents and accounts. Iowa Code 356.43(4) then routes the report to only four places — the IDOC director, the sheriff or police chief, the local governing body, and the county attorney. Nothing requires anyone to post it, and doc.iowa.gov has no jail-inspections section. Muscatine County does not publish its copy on its own domain.
• Iowa has no public statewide dataset of deaths in county custody. Iowa Admin. Code 201—50.22(14) requires the state jail inspection unit to be notified within 24 hours of any death, attempted suicide, fire, escape, injury to staff or prisoners from assaults, or use of force and prisoner self-injuries, and Iowa Code 127.3(1) requires an autopsy for a death in a jail or under police custody where no natural disease process accounts for it. Neither produces a published number.
• Iowa Code 356.49 requires every sheriff to file a monthly written report with the IDOC director giving the number of men, women and juveniles held. No evidence was found that IDOC publishes those counts, so capacity and population can pass only from the county's own figures.
• Iowa's open-records right is Iowa Code ch. 22; 22.2 gives every person the right to examine and copy a public record. There is no blanket response deadline — the only clock is 22.8(4), which caps a delay taken to screen a record for confidentiality at twenty calendar days and says it ordinarily should not exceed ten business days.
• Board of Supervisors. The board meets regularly Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. at the Muscatine County Administration Building. Agendas, minutes and meeting videos are archived by year for 2022 through 2026, including special sessions labelled 'Budget - County Departments' (January 13, 2026) and 'Budget - Outside Agencies' (January 20, 2026). The individual supervisors' names were not obtainable from a page opened in this session.