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 ...

Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into solitary confinement.

A 16-year-old Cleveland boy will become one of the state’s youngest inmates after pleading guilty to murder and felonious ...

CUYAHOGA COUNTY — A 16-year-old boy was sentenced to life in prison for a deadly shooting near an Ohio high school.

Findlay police fatally shot Robert Norton, 90, after he allegedly pointed a gun at officers, marking the second fatal police ...

The superintendent for schools in Ohio prisons and correctional facilities is retiring after 32 years of public service in education for both incarcerated adults and youth. Jennifer Sanders, ...

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

Rayjon Roy McElroy pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person in ...

It wasn't immediately clear what prompted Nathan Peru, 31, to go to the hospital or what led up to the deadly shooting.

Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said brake dust and bird droppings helped to identify SUV involved in Oct. 14 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two men were sentenced Friday for the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy in southeast Columbus last year, ...

An Ohio bill named after a corrections officer who was killed by an inmate on Christmas morning seeks to increase the ...