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Guards at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville plan to picket outside the prison Wednesday, trying to draw attention to what they call…

There are a handful of proposals at the Statehouse that attempt to cut down on prison time in favor of rehabilitation. Supporters believe this reduces...

A Cleveland man who spent 23 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit went free today thanks to new forensic evidence. Family, friends and...

A former nurse's aide who was convicted of killing 37 people in Ohio and Kentucky in the 1970s and '80s died Thursday, two days after he was attacked and beaten in his prison cell.

Inside Pickaway Correctional Institution, around 70 inmates are packing up pasta. The sauce, too - tomato basil. Rick McNary, of the Iowa-based nonprofit…

Ohio's Correctional Institution Inspection Committee, which reviews and evaluates the state's prisons, may be folded into the governor's administration -…

The Ohio prisons system has accidentally released about 2,000 prisoners' Social Security numbers as part of a records request by a convicted identity…

The state says an Ohio man condemned to die for the slaying of his former girlfriend has killed himself on death row.The Ohio prisons agency tells The…

The state patrol is investigating the death of a prison inmate found unresponsive after he was removed from his cell while trying to harm himself.Patrol…

A federal appeals court hears arguments Tuesday over the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process as the state hopes to start carrying out…