Community leaders and local agencies in Columbus are working to address the deep connections between homelessness, ...

Strategic hiring and expanded support services are key as Wayne County gets ready to open its renovated jail in 2026.

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County officials say the community needs to have a better way for helping people in the legal system with mental health issues. For now, most of those people are being served by ...

County, state and federal prisons are very good at keeping inmates secure while incarcerated. At the same time, many locations struggle with the “corrective” part of corrections because facilities are ...

Though commissioners recognized the county jail's improvements and efforts to reduce the total inmate population, its ...

The number of women in jail globally has soared by 17% in a decade, despite leaders' pledges to put fewer women behind bars ...

Behind bars I watched men beg for help and get turned away because they lacked a formal diagnosis before incarceration.

The legal agreement with the DOJ mandates jail upgrades, but leaves the deadlines to the implementation schedule.

As reported in “The Growth of Incarceration,” a survey found that more than half of all inmates had some form of mental illness. Because of this high number of mental health problems for inmates, it ...

At the end of last year, 30 defendants from New Orleans were awaiting transfer to the hospital. By mid-October, 33 remained caught in the backlog, confined in a jail that a federal judge has ruled ...

Castillo says she wants to divert people with mental health needs away from jail, and toward treatment, recovery, and ...