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 ...

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

CANTON ‒ A judge has granted early release to a former attorney imprisoned earlier this year for stealing from his clients.

Louis Fields started the program while he was an inmate at Grafton Correctional Institution. He said it helps give people hope. “We want to get them prepared, get them back out to society and get them ...

Sparks will be on probation following his release from the Grafton Correctional Institution. Other terms of his release are to be filed in the court record by the judge in the future. Sparks ...

Appellate panel says state court lacked jurisdiction in prison case A Tenth District Court of Appeals panel upheld a ruling by the Ohio Court of Claims that the state court lacked jurisdiction to hear ...

Lawson was given a life sentence in 1962 and died in Grafton Correctional Centre in 2003.