The Ohio legislature is currently vetting a sweeping prison reform bill that sponsors say will make it easier to staff Ohio’s ...

Three former Ohio State football stars are facing years in prison after being arrested for unrelated incidents. Former ...

Conducting rounds should be done in person, not via video cameras, state inspectors told youth prison managers.

Two women have died at the Dayton Correctional Institution in the past 10 months as the state women’s prison has struggled ...

Drug-sniffing dogs, mail scanning and increased drone security are all measures Ohio prison officials are taking to try to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — After repeated postponements, Gov. Mike DeWine has set a new date to announce his personal view on Ohio’s ...

Prisoners — and even some workers — said staff are the most obvious and overlooked source of the smuggling inside Ohio ...

Staff at Ohio's Indian River youth prison fear for their safety due to chronic shortages, with officers working alone.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Corrections officer Barbara Devine grew nervous at the sight of the K-9 unit as she walked through security at Chillicothe ...

A yearlong investigation found K2-laced “paper hits” driving violence and deaths — while smuggling persists despite costly security upgrades.

Guards and other employees bring in drugs that fuel a multimillion-dollar prison economy, leading to chaos, violence and ...

A new K-9 is joining Ohio’s efforts to keep drugs out of state prisons. He’s Rocco, a German shorthaired pointer trained to ...