The Ohio House unanimously passed House Bill 29 on Wednesday, which would require all jails and prisons in the state that ...

A method some Ohio prisons use to prevent drugs from being trafficked into facilities through the mail is being challenged in ...

On Christmas morning, Ross Correctional Institution ... legislation to address staffing issues, among other things. The draft ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Deaths in county jails should be investigated by independent agencies, Mike DeWine and Dave Yost say. But neither will call ...

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 ...