Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

J.M. Smucker issued a voluntary recall for its Jif peanut butter products last week due to potential salmonella contamination.

Everyone incarcerated in Ohio’s prisons can be classified in one of two groups – those who are commonly referred to as “old law inmates” and those known as “new law inmates.” The dividing line is July 1, 1996. That’s when Ohio changed the parole board system.

For a while now, state prisons have semi-officially been letting priests bring in sacramental wine for inmates' communions. Ohio’s new state budget now makes it legal. But even before COVID-19 locked down inmate communions, county jail inmates only received grape juice.

There have been 115 confirmed or probable COVID-19 inmate deaths and 7 staff deaths in Ohio’s prison system. The prison population has been reduced because of COVID, but advocates say the facilities are still overcrowded and dangerous.

Gov. Mike DeWine wanted to make a message clear Monday during a press conference: As the state reopens, the success of the economy depends on whether...

Gov. Mike DeWine used his Thursday briefing on coronavirus in Ohio to provide some insight into what the state's prisons are doing to battle the...

There were 11,292 cases of COVID-19 cases as of Sunday – and nearly a quarter of those are either inmates or staff at Ohio prisons.

A review of how former inmates are monitored after being released from Ohio’s prisons has resulted in 11 recommendations on better policies for post...

Gov. Mike DeWine has signed an executive order to create a panel that will review Ohio’s parole system and how those who leave prison are supervised.

Gov. Mike DeWine says the state is keeping a close eye on the Cuyahoga County Jail system and the problems it’s had with inmate deaths and use of force....

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Death penalty opponents have begun a week-long walk from a prison in Lucasville to the Statehouse to protest capital…

A state panel of legislators that usually flies under the radar held a meeting that became a venue for a passionate debate about Ohio’s parole board…