The Ohio prison system opens and scans letters and cards and then delivers the material to inmates on their state-issued tablets. At four prisons, legal mail from attorneys to inmates is also ...

An investigation into Ohio's juvenile detention centers and youth prisons won the prestigious Scripps Howard Journalism Award for Local/Regional Investigative Reporting on Sunday. The eight-month ...

Tasers are now officially being used within the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction system. According to ODRC, its pilot program was launched at Trumbull Correctional Institution on ...

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 ...

Ohio's youth prisons face ongoing staff shortages, increased violence, and rising solitary confinement hours. Inspections at Indian River and Circleville juvenile correctional facilities revealed ...

The Marshall Project highlights a new report that sheds light on pregnant people behind bars, but misses their lived ...

A federal judge sentenced disbarred celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi to seven years and three months in prison for embezzling tens of millions of dollars from his clients, including several with severe ph ...

Despite being outnumbered at the Statehouse, Ohio Democrats are angling to influence a $61 billion budget that they say is ...

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 ...

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 ...