With Zoran Mamdani poised to win the New York mayor’s race, the red herring of “defunding the police” is rearing its head ...

The Tuscarawas County Jail will receive more than $208,000 from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office to strengthen addiction treatment programs for inmates, part of a broader ...

A New Orleans jail escapee who spent nearly five months on the run before his capture this week in Atlanta has agreed to be ...

A Canton driver has been sentenced to prison for killing her passenger in a 2024 crash on Route 30 in Perry Township.

Poor sanitation in jails has been the subject of civil rights lawsuits for decades. Plumbing issues, vermin infestations, ...

Long overloaded with too many inmates and not enough space to hold them, the state has turned to prisons as far off as Mississippi. Officials cite limited options; inmates’ lawyers and families say ...

Amy Spears, who stole money from the Carrollton Exempted Village School District as its treasurer, has been sentenced to prison.

An Ohio man who stole an elderly Oregon woman’s life savings was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday, two years after ...

Franklin County has a new, modern jail that is 'night and day' better. Building it out so another older jail can be shuttered ...

Edward J. Thomas Jr., 20, of Youngstown is an inmate at the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Center in Lucasville. He is serving an 18-year prison sentence for crimes he committed in 2020 ...

A Dayton man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for a multi-county chase with Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers that ended in Greene County.

Ten people were indicted last week by a Lawrence County grand jury on felony 4 and felony 5 charges that generally don’t end ...