Efforts to abolish capital punishment in Ohio are heating up with a bipartisan bill that has drawn the support of former lawmakers who helped enact the state’s death ...

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 ...

Two employees at a private prison in Youngstown are accused of working together to smuggle in drugs and cellphones. Jodi Johnson, registered nurse, hid drugs inside food or drink containers and ...

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

The case has been a long-standing sore point in Lebanon. The cleric’s family believes he may still be alive in a Libyan ...

Tyler Deaton, a 22-year-old from Warren County, has been sentenced to six to nine years in prison after being found guilty of ...

An 18-year-old charged as one of the alleged shooters in a triple homicide in 2023 is now facing new assault charges for allegedly attacking another prisoner at the Lebanon County Correctional ...

A Linn County judge sentenced a Lebanon man to prison for brutally beating one man and robbing another at knifepoint in unrelated incidents.

LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - State and local prison officials are stepping up efforts to confiscate smuggled narcotics, especially drug-soaked paper. They say this type of contraband has been posing ...

Israel carried out intense airstrikes on southern Lebanon early on Saturday, killing one person, wounding seven and briefly cutting a highway that links Beirut with parts of south Lebanon, the Health ...

Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson asked a Utah judge to swap his shackles and prison garb for civilian clothes in court — arguing that convicted Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger was granted the ...

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. There will be no criminal charges for the corrections officer suspected of recording and leaking prison security footage of Bryan Kohberger, The ...