Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction likes to say it has a mission that matters and a ...

On April 21, 1930, Easter Monday, a fire tore through the Ohio State Penitentiary, killing 322 inmates and injuring about 130 others. Investigators later determined the blaze was intentionally set as ...

The Ohio legislature is currently vetting a sweeping prison reform bill that sponsors say will make it easier to staff Ohio’s prison system, largely by making Ohio prisons a safer place to work. The ...

He was home planting corn the day after his departure when news came of the shootings at Kent State University, and he was called back to the relatively peaceful task of maintaining a cordon around ...

The new state prisons director is tamping down on escalating violence in Ohio’s 31 prisons, where inmate-on-inmate assaults have jumped 20.6 percent last year over 2007 and disturbances involving four ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction likes to say it has a mission that matters and a team that cares. Right now, it has job openings and prospective ...