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A bipartisan group including one of the nation's leading anti-tax crusaders and the American Civil Liberties Union is launching a new effort to reduce…

More than half of all inmates in the U.S. suffer from some kind of mental illness. But managing mental health treatments in prisons remains a challenge…

Franklin County’s jails are overcrowded and old. The downtown jail is 46 years old, and the jail on Jackson Pike is 31 years old. Neither functions…

A report by the Ohio Inspector General finds that inmates at the Marion Correctional Institution built contraband computers and used them to commit…

Authorities have captured one man and are searching for two others who escaped from a state-run regional prison in southeast Ohio.Nelsonville police say…

Records show Ohio's prisons agency made nearly $1.3 million after selling about 1,400 dairy cattle as part of a larger effort to raise money for new…

The head of Ohio's prisons says the state is close to needing a new prison, but that he won't ask for the estimated $1 billion to build it.The Newark…

The state has announced $3 million in grants to address the mental health needs of Ohio offenders in county jails in hopes of reducing jail populations…

Melissa Etheridge says a video of female inmates singing one of her songs led to her performing with them at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in…

It’s estimated over 95 percent of the current prison population nationwide will be released at some time. The Obama administration also wants to reduce…