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Central Ohio correctional facilities awarded nearly $1 million for addiction treatment

Five central Ohio correctional institutions have received a combined total of nearly $1 million in state grants to support ...
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New Ohio law would eliminate some prison education programs to protect corrections officers

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — On Christmas Day last year, Andrew Lansing, an officer at Chillicothe’s Ross Correctional Institution, was assaulted and killed by inmate Rashawn Cannon. Now, Andy’s Law, a ...
Cleveland Scene

How Ohio’s Mental Hospitals Are More Like Prisons

Tyeesha Ferguson, mother of Quincy Jackson III, in Springfield, Ohio, in May 2025. Ferguson has been advocating for her son to receive mental health treatment for most of his adult life. He has been ...
Columbus Dispatch

Man sentenced for sending drugs to Ohio prisoners in JD Vance memoir

A Toledo-area man was sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison for smuggling drugs into Ohio prisons. Austin Siebert pleaded guilty to drug and firearm charges after sending books with drug-soaked ...