COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – 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 ...

To appeal his conviction for burglary and related charges, James Bishop needed the legal papers a Jefferson County court clerk had mailed him in prison. But mailroom staff at Ohio’s Noble Correctional ...

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 ...

Prison walls shouldn’t stop a person from receiving the court records that were used to convict and sentence them. But a 2021 pandemic-era crackdown on drug smuggling in the mail has delayed or ...

Mordecia Black had lengthy record as a teen, served several prison terms as an adult Beginning at the age of 13, Black started getting into trouble with the law. Before he was an adult, he had 27 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A bill that would require Ohio prisons to offer incarcerated women free feminine hygiene products has taken a step toward becoming law. The Ohio House unanimously passed ...

Riicara Janelle Dior is a transgender woman currently serving time at the Grafton Correctional Facility — a men's prison in ...

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 ...

Currently, there is no Ohio law requiring jails and prisons to provide feminine hygiene products. In 2022, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction issued a policy to ensure women ...