Former Ohio House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson, who died Oct. 25 at age 97, was one of Ohio’s finest-ever public servants, as well as one of Ohio Republicans’ wisest counselors. Davidson, of Reynoldsburg, ...

In an unusual political development that could impact control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Eric Hafner, an ...

Roxsandra Wright, a former correction officer at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Shirley, was arrested on Sunday following a joint investigation by the Department of Correction and ...

Accusing the state of “deliberate indifference,” a federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that sweltering heat in a ...

The federal government has granted approval of a new federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky, per an announcement Monday.

Many men at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institute, an aging complex lacking air conditioning in housing areas, suffered from ...

As part of a sweeping two-year investigation into prison labor, The Associated Press found that correctional staff nationwide ...

The estate of a 38-year-old Clearfield man who was found unresponsive in his cell at the State Correctional Institution Smithfield, Huntingdon County, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit ...

The lawsuit filed this week by the prison reform advocacy group Florida Justice Institute says that heat at the facility has ...

Parts of the Q buildings at Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers were found to have elevated levels of polychlorinated ...