With summer underway and school out, the Ohio Department of Public Safety and the Ohio Department of Commerce are reminding permit holders and parents about underage drinking laws. The season can be ...

The Montgomery County Jail Coalition wants a civilian oversight committee to have a say over how the region’s jail functions.

The wife of an Ohio sheriff's deputy who was allegedly murdered by Rodney Hinton Jr. after his son was killed by a cop is ...

After nearly four hours of waiting outside the office, the worst came to pass.

Family members filed a lawsuit over 32-year-old Daniel Ford's 2023 death at the La Plata County Jail in Colorado, calling it ...

The parents of a man who died alone in a Colorado jail cell after an ulcer burned a hole in his digestive tract and left him in what they said was excruciating pain for about 15 hours have filed a fed ...

A Columbus Dispatch photographer has won a regional Emmy award for a 2024 video chronicling inmate deaths in county jails across Ohio.

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers. That's according to ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to detain far more people than before, tapping a legal authority to jail ...

The Senate passed about $9 billion in cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting; the Justice Department fired prosecutor Maurene Comey; there were new Israeli strikes in Gaza; a tropical weather ...

Some legal experts and property managers say the demands pose serious legal questions because they are not signed by a judge.

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the ...