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 ...

Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into ...

The stabbing of an inmate late Sunday at the private prison is the ninth this year and the 17th since the beginning of 2024, ...

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, ...

Deputy Warden of the Special Services Team, Allan Szoke, said 14 inmates graduated with associate degrees from Sinclair College and 119 got job-related certificates. He said the money for classes does ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with mental illnesses from being executed. Nine inmates have been removed from ...

State prison officials are placing all the blame for the Christmas Day killing of Corrections Officer Andrew Lansing on one man: inmate Rashawn Cannon. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and ...

LANCASTER, Ohio (WCMH) — A pair of future service dogs that spent months training in an Ohio prison are entering the next phase of their journey. On Monday, Canine Companions and the Southeastern ...

The Ohio Reformatory in Mansfield, best known as the location of the 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption," has its own story ...