According to ODRC data, RCI had 736 use-of-force incidents between inmates and staff in 2023. It was the highest number in the state.

Most people that get out of prison, the last thing they want to do is go back. But a lot of times if they don’t get a leg up ...

AKRON, OHIO-The U.S. Department of Justice announced on January 23 that Soumya Rudra, 42, of Whitehall, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge John R.

According to the Ohio Office of Budget and Management (OBM), the $7.5 million was included in the budget in the last few ...

Food banks across Ohio are grappling with a potential funding shortfall that could leave them without millions of dollars, ...

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations World Food Program said Tuesday one of its staffers has died in a Yemeni prison three weeks after his detention by Houthi rebels. The announcement came a day after the ...

Springfield, Ohio, Mayor Rob Rue speaks to residents during a town hall about the 2024 presidential election's focus on the town's influx of Haitian immigrants on September 24, 2024. Dominic Gwinn ...

hoping to cut costs and improve food quality. Critics, however, point to past failures of prison food privatization in other states, citing issues like poor food quality and inadequate portions. While ...

Prison officials also said they would assign monitoring personnel to oversee the outside vendor’s operations and regularly survey the inmate population on food preferences and quality via state-issued ...

was sentenced to two years in prison, and pharmacist Kindy Ghussin of Greene County, Ohio, was sentenced to five years and five months in prison. On Sept. 5, the DOJ said, a federal jury convicted ...

Fresh food was easy to come by when Teri Castle began serving time in the West Virginia Department of Corrections. Women incarcerated at the Lakin Correctional Center had unlimited access to a ...