While visiting the Lebanon prison, attorney Angela S. Larsen, a lead attorney on the Ohio Justice & Policy Center lawsuit, said the prison staff told her to give the warden copies of papers her client ...

Tasers aren’t the answer to improving the safety of Ohio prisons. We need a prison system that works, writes guest columnist ...

In a one-page memo issued months into the new policy, prison system officials signaled to county court clerks that they need ...

Under the old policy, which larger prison systems in California and Texas also use, legal mail only needed the valid return address of a law office or court. In the early days of Ohio’s new policy, ...

A doctor who billed Medicaid for more than 10 times the medical equipment he never bought, totaling $1.5 million, is headed to prison. Robert Florea, 49, was convicted of third-degree felony ...

Tony Brigano started at ODRC as a social worker at Lebanon Correctional Institution in 1974. He also worked at Chillicothe Correctional Institution, the former Ohio Penitentiary, and the former ...

The change was included in the final version of the state budget bill is expected to be approved this week. Ohio created the prison watchdog agency in 1977. Nearly a decade ago, lawmakers made a ...

An inmate at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute has been sentenced to an additional five years in prison for the fatal stabbing in 2023 of a fellow inmate. Otha Don Watkins III, 43, of ...

Ohio doctor Robert Florea was sentenced to two years in prison for Medicaid fraud. Florea fraudulently billed Medicaid $1.5 million for medical equipment he never purchased.

Ohio created the prison watchdog agency in 1977. Nearly a decade ago, lawmakers made a move to dismantle the committee if its director didn't resign.