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A couple of Ohio jails have invested in biometric bracelets to better monitor the health of people within their facilities. They say the tech could save lives. Not everyone is on board.

The National Conference on Higher Education in Prison took place in Cleveland last week, with a field trip to an Ohio correctional institution.

An anti-drug smuggling policy has slowed the delivery of time-sensitive court documents as prison staff read letters protected by attorney-client privilege.

A conference on helping citizens released from prison rejoin the community with a brighter future ended Friday in Columbus.

A bipartisan group including one of the nation's leading anti-tax crusaders and the American Civil Liberties Union is launching a new effort to reduce…

More than half of all inmates in the U.S. suffer from some kind of mental illness. But managing mental health treatments in prisons remains a challenge…

Franklin County’s jails are overcrowded and old. The downtown jail is 46 years old, and the jail on Jackson Pike is 31 years old. Neither functions…

A report by the Ohio Inspector General finds that inmates at the Marion Correctional Institution built contraband computers and used them to commit…

Authorities have captured one man and are searching for two others who escaped from a state-run regional prison in southeast Ohio.Nelsonville police say…

Records show Ohio's prisons agency made nearly $1.3 million after selling about 1,400 dairy cattle as part of a larger effort to raise money for new…