Prisons

Two Ohio correctional institutions are bringing in hundreds of new books for incarcerated residents.

The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice brings those inside and outside of prisons together to build community and break stereotypes.

The ensemble and nonprofit Renovare brings classical music to places you might not normally find it, forging relationships and fostering music appreciation.

In Ideastream’s “Sound of Us” poetic reentry series, Cardell Belfoure talks with Ohioans who are making a difference in their communities after leaving prison. He guides them in writing poetry about their reentry experiences.

The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization, will bring local criminal justice reporting into 44 correctional institutions across the state.

The Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project brings free college courses into Ohio’s prisons, to the benefit of students on campus and behind bars.

Seventeen people have been tested for coronavirus in five Ohio prisons – 13 results were negative and the rest are pending, and those inmates are in…

An office that inspects and reports on conditions, trends and violence in Ohio’s 27 adult prisons and three juvenile facilities is down to one staffer,…

The head of Ohio’s government watchdog agency has found what he’s calling “rampant fraud, waste and abuse” in the inmate vocational training program that…

Ohio has more execution dates set than any other state. And a new report from Harvard Law School shows most of those condemned inmates have serious mental…