Residents have expressed concerns about the ICE contract and 10 deputies who are now trained to make immigration arrests to ...

Prison officials find illegal drugs nearly 10,000 times a year but don't know how the contraband made it inside in 90% of those cases. Of the known sources, legal mail accounts for about 1.3% of ...

A method some Ohio prisons use to prevent drugs from being trafficked into facilities through the mail is being challenged in court, with a nonprofit law firm claiming it invades inmates’ privacy.

The narrower definition significantly reduced the volume of legal mail, slashing the pieces arriving in the months before the new policy from over 10,000 to less than 3,000 by the end of last year, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A nonprofit law firm has sued the Ohio prison system over a policy that directs corrections officials to read and scan inmates’ mail, ...

Data shows 336 immigrants now held in six Ohio facilities, up from 111 in January, with majority having no criminal ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio’s biennial state budget has evolved from a simple funding mechanism into a vehicle for significant policy changes, often with minimal public debate. These are the 5 takeaways ...

The change was included in the final version of the state budget bill is expected to be approved this week.. Ohio created the prison watchdog agency in 1977. Nearly a decade ago, lawmakers made a ...

Attorneys with the Ohio Justice & Policy Center say that despite using control numbers, staff at 11 prisons have in the past few months started opening, scanning and reading attorney-client legal ...