Video footage shows women in the jail appearing to stage a peaceful protest against the dire conditions in the female prison.

A recent lawsuit alleges medical staff at a Franklin County jail did not perform required safety checks on a woman, resulting in her death, then falsified records to cover ...

Pregnant people are undergoing constant horrors at the hands of the carceral state, and the laws we’ve passed aren’t helping ...

Lester Eubanks, 81, escaped from the Ohio State Penitentiary in 1973 while serving a life sentence for the death of ...

The Ohio House approved a bipartisan bill this week that would require all Ohio correctional facilities to provide menstrual products to inmates free-of-charge. House Bill 29, passed Wednesday by a ...

One of four inmates who escaped from a Franklin County minimum security facility Thursday has been taken back into custody.

Authorites in northwest Arkansas are searching for a former police chief serving time for murder and rape who escaped from ...

During the ongoing massive manhunt for 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail last week, authorities say the use of ...

Nick Mordowanec is a Newsweek investigative reporter based in Michigan. His focus includes U.S. and international politics and policies, immigration, crime and social issues. Other reporting has ...

Inmates at a Missouri prison have filed a lawsuit claiming they're suffering from life-threatening extreme heat in their un-air-conditioned cells during the summer. The suit claims that the ...

The Ohio prison system opens and scans letters and cards and then delivers the material to inmates on their state-issued tablets. At four prisons, legal mail from attorneys to inmates is also ...