Former prison worker smuggles drugs into Lebanon Correctional, gets probation

A former prison worker who smuggled drugs into Lebanon Correctional Institution, leading to an inmate's 2023 overdose death, was sentenced to probation. Lindsey Brooke Lucas, 40, of Moraine was ...

Inmate wins $404,000 award in civil rights case against Ohio prison officers

Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into ...
The Herald-Dispatch

Ohio man sentenced to prison in drug case

An Ohio man was sentenced to three to four-and-a-half years in prison Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court in a ...
The Highland County Press

Former Ohio deputy sentenced to more than nine years in prison for sexually abusing an inmate

Damon K. Perry, 53, of Youngstown, was sentenced to 112 months (approximately 9.3 years) in prison by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent after he pleaded guilty in May to two counts of sexual abuse ...

Ohio inmate restrained, pepper sprayed in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility prison cell

Video shows Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows taken down and pepper sprayed by prison staff, leading to a $404,000 civil rights ...
The Land

‘It was chaos’: How an Ohio youth treatment center tried to put an end to rising violence

A year after taking over Mohican Young Star Academy, new owners and leadership face questions from workers, police and ...