Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits. While some states try to make the situation better, in other states efforts ...

Currently, there is no Ohio law requiring jails and prisons to provide feminine hygiene products. In 2022, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction issued a policy to ensure women ...

Opinion Feminine hygiene products in Ohio prisons - basic dignity, bipartisan decency: editorial Published: Jun. 04, 2025, 5:52 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A bill that would require Ohio prisons to offer incarcerated women free feminine hygiene products has taken a step toward becoming law. The Ohio House unanimously passed ...

Mordecia Black had lengthy record as a teen, served several prison terms as an adult Beginning at the age of 13, Black started getting into trouble with the law. Before he was an adult, he had 27 ...

Gutting Ohio’s independent prison oversight body and handing its powers over to an office responsible for defending prisons in court is a serious mistake. It’s not too late.

Attorneys with the Ohio Justice & Policy Center say that despite using control numbers, staff at 11 prisons have in the past few months started opening, scanning and reading attorney-client legal ...

To appeal his conviction for burglary and related charges, James Bishop needed the legal papers a Jefferson County court clerk had mailed him in prison. But mailroom staff at Ohio’s Noble Correctional ...

The state prison system adopted tighter restrictions for legal mail in 2021 to keep out paper dipped in hard-to-detect synthetic drugs. Drug seizures traced to legal mail — a tiny fraction of drug ...

Prison walls shouldn’t stop a person from receiving the court records that were used to convict and sentence them. But a 2021 pandemic-era crackdown on drug smuggling in the mail has delayed or ...