A new bill introduced at the Ohio State House aims to impose stricter penalties on inmates who harm or kill correctional ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The corrections officer who was attacked and killed by an inmate at Ross Correctional Institution last Christmas Day received a posthumous award Friday, announced the Ohio Department ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Mordecia Black, who was released from prison in January after serving a nine-and-a-half-year sentence at the Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, is accused of cutting off ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Justice and Policy Center released a statement Friday, calling for the state's pilot program for the use of tasers in prisons to be paused. The group said there needs to be a ...