A newly created state program next year will begin notifying residents when a jail or prison break has taken place in the ...

Several hundred inmates in Ohio’s high security prisons would lose access to Sinclair Community College’s educational offerings if a GOP prison reform bill makes it way into law, and many more of the ...

By all accounts, bloody violence inside many of Ohio’s public and private prison walls has intensified out of control in recent years. In Youngstown, the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center has logged ...

A former Pike County police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for running a large-scale drug ...

A Lake County man was sentenced to federal prison for not paying required employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service ...

Citing the need to keep out drug-soaked paper, state prison officials have expanded the opening and scanning of confidential attorney mail to incarcerated clients in every Ohio prison. Since 2021, ...

To keep the money coming, Honaker told officials that simple tasks like climbing stairs caused him extreme pain.

LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - State and local prison officials are stepping up efforts to confiscate smuggled narcotics, especially drug-soaked paper. They say this type of contraband has been posing ...

A former corrections officer was sentenced to prison for trying to smuggle drugs, a cell phone and SIM cards into a state prison in Trumbull County.

Upon attempting to take the packages into Trumbull Correctional Institution, he was intercepted by law enforcement.