When I told my three boys, ages 15, 13, and 11, that we were heading to Mansfield ... Ohio State Reformatory. Known to many from the major motion picture The Shawshank Redemption. This former ...

Since then, I have seen the movie at least once a year. I read the short story — originally titled Rita Hayworth and ...

The golfer, in the middle of his Memorial Tournament preparations, made a visit to the former Ohio Reformatory in Mansfield ... The Shawshank Redemption appears on his list of favorite prison ...

The Ohio prison system opens and scans letters and cards and then delivers the material to inmates on their state-issued tablets. At four prisons, legal mail from attorneys to inmates is also ...

A former Ohio youth prison manager, Renee Depalo, faces charges for allegedly helping smuggle contraband into the Circleville Juvenile Correctional Facility. Depalo resigned from her position in ...

A 36-year-old Mansfield Correctional Institution corrections officer is accused of bringing suspected narcotics into the maximum security prison. Crystal Kinser of Newark, Ohio is charged with ...

MANSFIELD, Ohio (WJW) — Local humane agents said they believe a puppy found underweight, lethargic and listless was “literally hours from passing away” when he was saved. The “miracle ...

Ohio House Bill 29 would require free menstrual products and showers for incarcerated women. Supporters cite stories of incarcerated women struggling to obtain necessary hygiene products.

MANSFIELD, Ohio (WJW) – New Year’s Eve 1989 ... A jury convicted Boyle of murder, and he was sentenced to 20 years-to-life in prison. With his mother dead and his father in prison, Collier ...