Tasers aren’t the answer to improving the safety of Ohio prisons. We need a prison system that works, writes guest columnist Michaela Hahn Burriss, an attorney and the policy director for the Ohio ...

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 ...

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, including letters of private ...

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, ...

Security, pay, staffing: Ohio prison issues under spotlight after officer's death According to ODRC data, RCI had 736 use-of-force incidents between inmates and staff in 2023. It was the highest ...

Ohio’s Reagan Tokes Law is only keeping people in prison longer — not releasing anyone early. Before the Reagan Tokes law took effect in 2019, state prison administrators expected “no more than ...

The practice is intended to secure legal mail and ensure contraband does not enter prisons. The policy was introduced at four of the 28 prisons the state oversees in winter and spring of 2024 ...

According to ODRC data, RCI had 736 use-of-force incidents between inmates and staff in 2023. It was the highest number in the state.