Officials do agree that help is needed amidst staffing issues at the Franklin County Jail that they say are leading to a ...

Staffing shortages and long shifts at Franklin County Jail left officers stretched thin after an inmate struck one with a ...

Officials said the Franklin County Jail is "in the middle of a safety emergency." The jail has had an increase in inmate ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A second inmate who escaped from a minimum security facility in Franklin County has been arrested. Michael Norton, 31, was taken into custody on Friday and faces a felony ...

Franklin County Jail still has half the correctional officers it needs. Training is being expanded to boost security and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The fourth and final inmate who escaped a minimum security correctional facility in Franklin County nearly three months ago is back in custody. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, ...

A Franklin County Sheriff's deputy resigned in January after an adult female inmate alleged that he sexually assaulted her, prompting an internal investigation. Andrew Litteral, 39, a deputy sheriff ...

The family of a man who died in the Franklin County jail in 2022 while he was supposed to be under medical supervision has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county in federal court. Thomas D.

Emaleigh Smith, a Franklin County jailer, was arrested for supplying an inmate with alcohol, nicotine, and THC edibles. Smith faces charges including providing prohibited items to inmates and ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio — It’s been a long road. One that Reatha Freeman has traveled the last 366 days. “It’s been very painful,” she said. “Very hurtful.” Freeman stands outside the Jackson Pike Jail, ...

Inmates at the Franklin County jail are routinely subjected to inhumane and barbaric practices, according to a lawsuit filed by a Seattle-based legal-aid organization. Mentally ill inmates are chained ...