COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A method some Ohio prisons use to prevent drugs from being trafficked into facilities through the mail is being challenged in court, with a nonprofit law firm claiming it ...

Riicara Janelle Dior is a transgender woman currently serving time at the Grafton Correctional Facility — a men's prison in ...

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 ...

Nonprofit law firm sues Ohio prisons over screening of inmates’ legal mail Updated: May. 23, 2025, 12:09 p.m. | Published: May. 23, 2025, 12:08 p.m.

The change was included in the final version of the state budget bill is expected to be approved this week. Ohio created the prison watchdog agency in 1977. Nearly a decade ago, lawmakers made a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...