The state is investigating the discovery of homemade knives found in a prison where guards are alleging violent working conditions.

The state says it expects thousands of doses of swine flu vaccine any day for prison medical workers and certain inmates.

The state is reviewing whether dozens of felons sent back to prison for parole violations might have to be released because of problems with their original sentences.

Ohio is considering using lethal injections into inmates’ bone marrow or muscles as possible alternatives or back-up measures to the traditional intravenous execution procedure.

The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request to present more evidence he says could have changed the outcome of his trial. 

An appeals court that delayed a death-row inmate’s execution scheduled for April has now reversed its decision and lifted a stay. 

A state prison guard is being investigated after he was accused of having sex with female inmates.

An Ohio sheriff who abruptly closed a jail and transferred more than 200 inmates says the move could save hundreds of thousands of dollars by year’s end.

A city’s overcrowded jail will start charging inmates $1 day to be there.