The grant money will go towards building improvements including work to the structural support columns, installing masonry ...

This Week In History: On April 21, 1930, more than 320 inmates were killed in a fire at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus – the largest prison fire in U.S. history. Some of the inmates ...

A day after launch, the department's director asked state leaders to allow them to expand the program statewide as part of ...

The brother of Ohio Corrections Officer Andrew Lansing opens up for the first time about his brother's murder at Ross Correctional.

State inspectors conducting surprise visits at two Ohio youth prisons found staff shortages, violence and solitary confinement plague the facilities.

During our months-long investigation of Ohio’s Reagan Tokes law, The Marshall Project - Cleveland uncovered records of a riot at Lake Erie Correctional Institution that had gone unreported by the ...

The exhibit focuses on the early years of the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, the state's first women's prison. The ORW opened in 1916.

To identify these cases, courts and the state prison system label convictions under the Reagan Tokes law as SB201 sentences, a reference to the Ohio Senate bill that carried the criminal sentencing ...

The state of Ohio will be giving Tasers to some corrections officers in Ohio as part of a pilot program. According to the ...

Mansfielder Rita Shoulders attended the event Friday. She was the first Black female corrections officer at the Ohio State ...

Calls were also made by the Ohio Justice and Policy Center to review the program thoroughly before it is implemented in two ...

The Ohio Justice & Policy Center called for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to pause a planned $350,000 pilot program authorizing the use of Tasers on people who are incarcerated ...