In November 2024, the former DYS director told News 5 that scaling down facilities was the first of 26 recommendations to improve safety and outcomes in the state’s juvenile justice system.“It’s ...

Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill on Wednesday making it a crime for predators to groom a child for sexual abuse, using a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An officer at the Ross County Correctional Institution died from blunt force injuries to his head on Christmas Day, according to an autopsy report. The Franklin County Coroner's ...

Andrew Lansing, 62, died of blunt force trauma to the head while working his shift at the Ross Correctional Institution in ...

Construction will start in the spring on new, smaller youth prisons, Ohio officials said. It's part of a plan to incarcerate ...

As part of the Ohio Department of Youth Services commitment to a system transformation in the juvenile justice system, the ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

The Ohio Department of Youth Services is planning to build four small juvenile detention centers in Bedford and Grafton, to ...