Ohio will sell a state-owned former correctional facility to Hocking County for $1 to establish a new regional jail. At a Hocking County Commissioners Meeting on ...

The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor Department announced its third agreement this week with a company in the industry agreeing to pay a ...

Several men incarcerated at the Ross Correctional Institution say that correctional staff, joined by a tactical unit with no ...

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction staff members gather on Jan. 3 for Andrew Lansing’s funeral procession as it ...

Sal Almanza has worked 24-hour shifts in grueling terrain, cutting fire lines and hauling away brush trying to keep ahead of ...

In late 2023, the Healey-Driscoll administration’s Department of Correction began implementing the #NoCostCalls bill passed in the fiscal 2024 budget, an act providing for unlimited free phone ...

New York’s Department of Corrections has opened a wellness center for guards on Rikers — including a “serenity room,” a gym and business center — in an ongoing push to help COs live more ...

The Canadian Prime Minister will no longer lead the Liberal Party, and there are reasons to worry about what will happen if the Conservatives win the next election. In the eighties, the ...

The decision reverses a policy imposed by former Sheriff Paul Penzone in response to rising overdose deaths and the arrest of ...

A former corrections officer at the Stark County Jail has pleaded guilty to tampering with records, a coverup related to a ...

The N.C. Department of Adult Correction has a new leader: Leslie Cooley Dismukes was sworn in as secretary on Jan. 6. Addressing the growing health care and mental health needs of the state’s prison ...

People hold signs while attending a LGBTQ rally in the rotunda at the Kentucky state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024.