When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates took over and injured three guards, just days after staffing ...

A man who is serving a life sentence for the 1989 stabbing death of 68-year-old Hugo Schiazza, faced a parole review on ...

Deportations are being politicized, but each involves an actual human being. Seven years after being deported from Ohio, two such people are still trying to pick up the pieces. President ...

The Ohio Parole Board has decided to release a man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend in front of her child in 1980.

This Black History Month, a small town in Northeast Ohio is bringing to light a powerful story of courage, defiance, and the Underground Railroad: the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue.

LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio — A man accused of using books to bring drugs into an Ohio prison is facing charges, according to our CBS ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Indiana needed extra basketball to seal a 77-76 overtime win at Ohio State on Friday night, snapping a two-game losing streak and pulling the Hoosiers’ feet back underneath them.

Meet Maria DeVito, who joined The Dispatch in August to cover Gahanna, Pataskala, Pickerington and Reynoldsburg.

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, ...

All Tammarisk Lyman had to do to get her kids back from the state of Kansas, her lawyer repeatedly told her in emails, was stop saying that her husband Chris was innocent of murdering their ...

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 ...