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"This sexual deviant used his profession to stalk and harass women," said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley in a previous statement.
Tasers aren’t the answer to improving the safety of Ohio prisons. We need a prison system that works, writes guest columnist ...
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, ...
An anti-drug smuggling policy has slowed the delivery of time-sensitive court documents as prison staff read letters protected by attorney-client privilege.
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 ...
The state prison system adopted tighter restrictions for legal mail in 2021 to keep out paper dipped in hard-to-detect synthetic drugs. Drug seizures traced to legal mail — a tiny fraction of drug ...
All Stick, No Carrot: Ohio’s Reagan Tokes Law Acts as a ‘One-Way Ratchet’ for Prison Time Intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release, the law is turning out as ...
The law was the legislative reaction to the 2017 murder of Reagan Tokes, a 21-year-old Ohio State University student, by a man recently released from prison. Lawmakers sought to ensure public safety ...
Posted: Mar 20, 2025 / 11:22 AM EDT Updated: Mar 20, 2025 / 11:22 AM EDT DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation is reportedly planning to replace a local prison.
LEBANON, Ohio (WDTN) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison after killing a 23-year-old woman last year. Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell announced the sentencing of Elijah Malik ...
The Ohio to Erie challenge requires someone to run 326 miles. It’s the equivalent of running from Cincinnati to Cleveland — or in Singleton’s world, 815 laps around a gravel track in his prison.
Bryan Singleton takes a break after completing the Ohio to Erie running challenge inside the Lebanon Correctional Institution. Singleton says he has been in and out of prison since he was 18.