The state prison system adopted tighter restrictions for legal mail in 2021 to keep out paper dipped in hard-to-detect synthetic drugs. Drug seizures traced to legal mail — a tiny fraction of drug ...

In Marion, the North Central Correctional Complex found 22 of 117 inmates (18.8%) tested positive for drugs, up from 15.65% in March ― the highest percentage in the Ohio prison system.

MARION — Hours after Gov. Mike DeWine declared inmates may be safer inside Ohio prisons than outside, the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announced Sunday night a staff member ...

Ohio's Correctional Institution Inspection Committee released its Biennium Report on Friday, listing the inspections of more than 30 ODRC detention and prison facilities. It highlights a 33 ...

Respondents incarcerated in Ohio picked Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor, 50% to 31%, compared to 46% to 33% at prisons and jails in other states. Incarcerated Black people ...

Anti-gerrymandering groups in Ohio and nationally are looking to correct what they say is a representational flaw in redistricting regarding prison populations. As it stands now, those ...

MARION, Ohio (WCMH) – 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 ...

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 ...

On Easter Sunday in 1993, hundreds of inmates started the largest prison riot in Ohio’s history. When it was over, one guard and nine inmates were dead. More than 400 inmates took control of L ...

Emptage-Walker said on Jan. 23 of this year, the Solutions Re-entry Project honored 140 men at NCCC who successfully graduated from 32 "different peer-facilitated programs" at the prison.

These labs are expected to open next fall. NCCC got $7 million from the federal CARES Act in 2020 for coronavirus relief. Of this, $3 million was earmarked for students in the form of direct aid.