A method some Ohio prisons use to prevent drugs from being trafficked into facilities through the mail is being challenged in ...

Hundreds of incarcerated people like Clark are denied release from Ohio prisons each year under Senate Bill 201, better known as the Reagan Tokes law. Enacted in 2019, the law was designed to protect ...

Ohio State Marion students turned their research on women's history into a night of theater at the Marion Women’s Club & Home. The March 28 event was part of a collaboration between Ohio State M ...

Ohio is spending $349,400 to buy Tasers for corrections officers at two high-security state prisons. The policy for how and when the stun guns will be used inside the prisons is still being developed.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX ... and a 40-percent vacancy rate at the medium security North Central Correctional Complex in Marion. The committee recommends that the ODRC create a pool of retirees ...

Prison director said officer Andrew Lansing "made the ultimate sacrifice." An inmate allegedly assaulted and killed a veteran corrections officer on Christmas Day at an Ohio prison, an attack ...

Chillicothe, Ohio — A corrections officer died after an assault by an inmate in an Ohio prison on Christmas morning, authorities said Wednesday. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and ...

In more than a quarter century behind bars, Michael Conley unlearned the apathy about voting he carried into an Ohio prison when he was sentenced ... said a Black respondent from North Central ...

Ohio should stop sending nonviolent first-time offenders and children under age 14 to the state's youth prisons and give juvenile court judges more discretion on how to handle kids caught with ...

An Ohio prison inmate, who said he was attacked by multiple corrections officers while handcuffed, has settled a lawsuit he filed against the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

MARION, Ohio – A Marion County man will spend at least the next 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping and torturing a woman last year.A judge sentenced Shane Edward Hooper, 36, to ...

MARION, Ohio — A man was sentenced to more than 25 years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and burglary last month. Marion County Common Pleas Court Judge Matthew ...