The cash bail amendment last year brought by Ohio lawmakers and approved in November directing judges to weigh public safety when setting cash bail inadvertently undermined...
Police officer trainees and current law enforcement accentuated the positives of companion bills at the Ohio Statehouse to lower the minimum age to become a police...
Republicans nationwide went big on claims that crime was rampant in our cities and that it was crucial to elect hard-nosed conservatives to stop it. The...
A college student who gave birth in a sorority house bathroom and was convicted of murder after throwing the baby away will receive a new sentencing...
Tiffin, Ohio — Seneca County’s Participating in Victory of Transition (PIVOT) Drug Court is the recipient of a $750,000 enhancement grant from the Department of Justice...
Tiffin, Ohio — The PIVOT Drug Recovery Program of the Seneca County Common Pleas Court and Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court has earned final certification from the Ohio...
Across the nation, prison commissaries are raising prices on items that many consider basic necessities — from deodorant to fresh fruit — not provided by the...
This article originally appeared in Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Several major corporations, from Amazon to Walmart, are promising to pay travel expenses for...
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced executive actions that would pardon thousands of people with prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession. Biden then called on governors to...
Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in a Thursday hearing last week grilled the top leader of federal prisons on how the agency would address...
Researchers with the Health Policy Institute of Ohio are raising concerns about the health impacts of cash bail. This November voters will decide on a measure that...
The Department of Justice did not properly count nearly 1,000 deaths of incarcerated people in jails and prisons, according to a bipartisan report released Tuesday by...
Tiffin, Ohio — Tiffin University’s School of Criminal Justice and Social Sciences is accepting applications for the new Cold Case Fellowship Program, that will launch in...
A new report recommends sweeping changes to the justice system in Ohio, with hopes of rectifying systemic issues and stemming wrongful convictions. But the changes still...
If there’s a way to make the death penalty nonarbitrary and nondiscriminatory, the United States hasn’t found it, a group that studies capital punishment said in...