Annette Chambers-Smith

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is moving forward with its plan to install more than 5,000 body-worn cameras inside all of the prisons and adult parole facilities.

Ten prison workers have been named as involved in the February beating and death of a Columbus man who’d arrived at a Pickaway County correctional facility just two weeks earlier to start his sentence for a stabbing.

A report from the ACLU of Ohio finds that nearly one of every 10 bills introduced by Ohio lawmakers during the last legislative session were criminal…

Ohio’s prison authority is vaccinating inmates and staff against the coronavirus at three detention facilities starting this week, but vaccines are limited to inmates under medical care. According to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, vaccinations will be available to 593 inmates and 456 staff members. The shipments began arriving Monday.

When Ohio gets its first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine, medical professionals, residents and staff at long-term care facilities and EMS workers will…

For the first two months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., Ohio’s response set an example. Thanks to an early shutdown order, the state’s…

The director of Ohio's prison system has announced that she has tested positive for the coronavirus.Annette Chambers-Smith is head of the Ohio Department…

Gov. Mike DeWine used his Thursday briefing on coronavirus in Ohio to provide some insight into what the state's prisons are doing to battle the...

Widespread coronavirus testing in Ohio prisons fueled a weekend surge in cases, which researchers say could represent the peak of the pandemic in Ohio.…

Inmates sitting in soiled diapers or beds for hours. Feces in the showers. Urine caked on beds.These are just some of the conditions reported by inmates…