A new Ohio law will soon give incarcerated women free access to period products in Ohio correctional facilities. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed Ohio House Bill 29 on Dec. 19 and it will go into effect ...

According to a recent report by the Dayton Daily News, the Ohio state prison system was short more than 500 corrections officers at the end of last year. The Daily News conducted its investigation ...

CHILLICOTHE — Since 1968, Ohio Penal Industries and the Ohio Department of Transportation have partnered to produce trucks that keep Ohio’s roads safe, with 175 incarcerated workers assembling plow ...

Inmates in solitary confinement at Ohio's Butler County Jail are being served the same meal three times a day as a form of ...

Ohio's prisons system and natural resources department have signed an agreement allowing inmates to build new versions of the state's most popular park cabin. Gary Mohr, director of the Ohio ...

More than half the $77 million the state of Ohio has awarded wrongfully imprisoned people since 1976 was paid out in the last ...

Ohio's state prisons ended 2025 more than 500 correction officers below full staffing, with 7.4% of all budgeted positions ...

A former Mansfield Correctional Institution inmate changed his mind Tuesday about pleading guilty to allegedly beating a corrections officer.

A Toledo-area man was sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison for smuggling drugs into Ohio prisons. Austin Siebert pleaded guilty to drug and firearm charges after sending books with drug-soaked ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio bill named after a corrections officer who was killed by an inmate on Christmas morning seeks to increase the penalties for incarcerated people who harm prison ...