COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An escaped prisoner in Muskingum County ... He was sentenced to four years in prison in 2017 for the latter conviction and denied early release in 2020.

Ohio State Reformatory was a notorious maximum security prison that would later serve as the set for the film The Shawshank Redemption. Shelves hung from the ceiling give the tens of thousands of ...

Wayne S. Pletcher is reported to have escaped from the jail, located at 28 N. Fourth St. in Zanesville, at approximately 5:09 p.m. Saturday, according to a post on the Muskingum County Sheriff’s ...