A federal jury in Cincinnati awarded $404,000 in damages recently to Tommy Meadows, an inmate at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville — located in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Ohio bill named after a corrections officer who was killed by an inmate on Christmas morning seeks to increase the penalties for incarcerated people who harm prison ...

(The Center Square) – High school athletes in Ohio can be paid for their name, image and likeness, at least for the next 45 days. The Ohio High School Athletic Association plans an emergency vote on ...

Former Lebanon High School forward Anthony Thompson announced his commitment to the Ohio State Buckeyes on Tuesday. The 6-foot-8 Thompson, who now plays for Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, is ...

The Butler County Sheriff's Office will receive an increased rate for holding ICE detainees. The federal government approved a new rate of $105 per day per detainee, up from the current $68. The ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with serious mental illnesses from being executed. Nine people have been removed from death row, with 25 cases still pending. Some death row inmates have ...

In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished.

SAC CITY, Iowa (KTIV) - Voters in Sac County, Iowa, will have on their ballots a $12.5 million bond for a new jail. The current jail is over 85 years old, and Sac County officials say a new one is ...

LAGRANGE, Ga. (WTVM) - A Troup County jail inmate died this morning at a local hospital after experiencing a medical episode, authorities said. Jody Wilson, 56, began experiencing an altered mental ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – After national news spotlighted how former inmates are being hit and killed along the road back to town from the Santa Fe jail. County leaders are now leaning into new ideas to ...

The superintendent for schools in Ohio prisons and correctional facilities is retiring after 32 years of public service in education for both incarcerated adults and youth. Jennifer Sanders, ...