Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside Ohio's death house, there is a room for executions and separate witness rooms: one for those connected to the victim and ...

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (WSAZ) - The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) paused to honor the employees who have lost their lives in the line of duty. The 33rd annual memorial ceremony at SOCF in ...

There are 11,798 staff, including 6,216 guards. Formerly, the Lucasville prison and the Ohio State Penitentiary at Youngstown housed the state’s maximum-security inmates, but disruptive offenders were ...

The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to seal records involving a post-conviction death penalty appeal brought by inmate James Were, who was convicted of murdering Corrections Officer Robert ...