GRAFTON, Ohio -- Amid this rural village's soybean fields sits one of the state's most crowded prisons, the Lorain Correctional Institution. A legislative watchdog group, the Correctional ...

A Lorain County corrections officer was fired for what the sheriff called "reckless judgment" that created a "serious ...

LORAIN, Ohio (WOIO) - Two Lorain County corrections officers have landed themselves in hot water, according to Sheriff Jack Hall. One was terminated for how he handled an alleged assault by an ...

GRAFTON, Ohio (WJW) – Several staff members and inmates at the Lorain Correctional Institution were hospitalized over the weekend after investigators say they were possibly exposed to an ...

Cuyahoga County Judge John O'Donnell sentenced Lewis to two and a half years in Lorain Correctional Institution in Grafton, Ohio, with credit for time served, and ordered him to pay $606 in ...

ELYRIA, Ohio (WOIO) - Two escaped inmates are still on the loose after breaking out from the Lorain/Medina Community Based Correctional Facility in Elyria on June 29, and police are urging the ...

Thomas, 22, of Lorain, was sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison after he pleaded guilty to and was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, discharging a firearm on or near a prohibited ...