Teono Smith News Today

Iowans who have loved ones in prison came to the Statehouse Monday to ask lawmakers to change the state’s process for considering commutation requests from those serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. A three-member panel of state representatives unanimously advanced a bipartisan proposal Monday that they’re calling the “lifers’ second chance bill.”

A barber is offering people in the community the opportunity to become barbers through an apprenticeship. Some of the people it will help include former inmates