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

Federal and state governments offset budget shortfalls by forcing incarcerated laborers to work to maintain the very prisons ...

After years of chasing grants, Ashtabula County finally came up a winner Friday, as Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced a $15 million grant for the construction of a ...

Grant Hardin wore an outfit designed to look like a law enforcement officer, which let him bypass security and get out of the ...

The United Nation’s Mandela Laws defines solitary confinement as 22 hours or more a day “without meaningful human contact.” ...

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 ...

A federal judge in Boston delayed a hearing on federal prosecutors’ push to detain 82-year-old Ralph DeLeo, a former leader ...

Gov. Mike DeWine, legislative leaders, community leaders, and law enforcement officials and news reporters. It was the single largest prison riot in state history. "I probably got 10 hours of sleep in ...

The Reagan Tokes law links alleged behavior in prison to time served. People who break prison rules, especially for violent or sexual behavior, are kept beyond their minimum term. Elected judges play ...

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 ...

Since February, three county sheriff’s offices in Ohio have signed agreements with the federal government to help with ...