The Reagan Tokes Act is an Ohio law that took effect in 2019 in response to the murder of a 21-year-old female college student by a man recently released from prison. The law requires judges to give ...

The Reagan Tokes Act is an Ohio law that took effect in 2019 in response to the murder of a 21-year-old female college student by a man recently released from prison. The law requires judges to ...

Ohio has the money to hire and pay guards, behavioral health clinicians, teachers and others needed inside the state's youth prisons but simply cannot get people to take the jobs, according to ...

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 should ... into the prisons. The juvenile justice group recommended creating a gang coordinator position at the Ohio Department of Youth Services who would work with local law enforcement ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On Christmas morning ... drafting legislation to address staffing issues, among other things. The draft bill called “Andy’s Law,” would require ODRC to hire a consulting ...

Construction is expected to start this spring on new, smaller youth prisons, which will allow the state to eventually close the larger Cuyahoga Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility. The Ohio ...

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (WCMH) — The head of the state prisons department is speaking ... a letter to Governor DeWine asking him to address issues inside the facility. One of those concerns was ...