The Ohio Reformatory in Mansfield, best known as the location of the 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption," has its own story ...

Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into ...

LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - State and local prison officials are stepping up efforts to confiscate smuggled narcotics, especially drug-soaked paper. They say this type of contraband has been posing ...

Reporter Laura Bischoff covered a trial in Pickaway County Common Pleas Court. Susan and Adam Withers, a mother and son, were sentenced to 14 to 19 and a half years in prison after their two pit bulls ...

A proposal to ban state agencies from buying United States and Ohio flags that weren’t made in the U.S. could expand ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with mental illnesses from being executed. Nine inmates have been removed from ...

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder seeks to dismiss state theft charges while serving a 20-year federal prison ...

A Marshall Project - Cleveland and News 5 investigation helped spark a bipartisan bill to track pregnancy outcomes in Ohio ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

A Columbiana man has been sentenced to prison for breaking into home of a state representative and her mother, an appeals ...