In November 2024, the former DYS director told News 5 that scaling down facilities was the first of 26 recommendations to improve safety and outcomes in the state’s juvenile justice system.“It’s ...

Ohio Department of Youth Services announced ... is 35 miles from the current facility and neighbors the Grafton Correctional Institution. “I’m proud of my new team for quickly expanding ...

CANTON ‒ A judge has granted early release to a former attorney imprisoned earlier this year for stealing from his clients.

Former Ohio attorney William R ... Sparks will be on probation following his release from the Grafton Correctional Institution. Other terms of his release are to be filed in the court record ...

As part of the Ohio Department of Youth Services commitment to a system transformation in the juvenile justice system, the agency is announcing that construction could begin this spring on four new ...

LEAVITTSBURG, Ohio — The new year means the next step for one ... Louis Fields started the program while he was an inmate at Grafton Correctional Institution. He said it helps give people hope. “We ...

(full story) Appellate panel says state court lacked jurisdiction in prison case A Tenth District Court of Appeals panel upheld a ruling by the Ohio Court of Claims ... to hear the claim brought by a ...

Construction will start in the spring on new, smaller youth prisons, Ohio officials said. It's part of a plan to incarcerate ...

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