The Lorain County commissioners held public hearings in the last week regarding placing a 0.25 percent sales tax increase on the Nov. 3 General Election ballot to fund a new jail and youth detention ...

Lorain County held the first public hearings on a proposed 15-year sales tax to fund a $143 million replacement jail before a November vote.

A $6.35 million settlement has been reached in a federal civil rights lawsuit involving a former Lorain County inmate who suffered a broken neck and paralysis in 2023. According to Spangenberg Shibley ...

GRAFTON, Ohio (WJW) — A dog that was dumped behind the Lorain Skate World on May 29 and rescued by a nearby homeowner days later is progressing through a training program at the Grafton Correctional ...

A dog that was dumped behind the Lorain Skate World on May 29 and rescued by a nearby homeowner days later is progressing through a training program at the Grafton Correctional Institution. Ukraine ...

Inmates at the Jefferson City Correctional Center are again sounding alarms about the quality of medical care in the prison. "Difficult doesn't even begin to describe it," said Lee Cobb, a 71-year-old ...

JESUP, Ga. (WSAV) — Two inmates escaped from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Jesup on Friday before being recaptured by law enforcement, a Jesup Police Department spokesperson told WSAV.

Former FCI Milan corrections officer Cara Wozniak, 33, of Milan, pleaded guilty to having sex with an inmate under her authority and providing contraband to an inmate. (Courtesy U.S. District ...

Missouri officials have released video and a 100-page report documenting a February riot inside a local jail, where 34 inmates briefly took control of a housing unit and damaged property following ...

A prison program helps women stitch together a brighter future while crafting symbols of freedom.Inmates at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup are sewing American and Maryland ...

LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) — A 30-year-old woman died inside the Lorain County Jail on Sunday morning. Melissa Boylan was booked just before 1 a.m. Saturday on a bench warrant and a fleeing and ...

Georgia officials secured grand jury indictments against 16 inmates linked to a violent prison gang network. The defendants are accused of stabbing and critically injuring multiple inmates during a ...