The county has a new contract with the U.S. Marshals Service to house up to 20 federal inmates at the Portage County Jail at ...

A registered sex offender who broke into a house in March and reportedly performed a sex act on himself while standing over two people as they slept is headed to prison. Timothy Dale Creech, 47, of ...

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 ...

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections is planning to replace one of its oldest facilities in a $30 million project. Here's what it will look like.

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.