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

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 ...

Inside Franklin County's James A. Karnes Corrections Center on Columbus' West Side, 35 men, all veterans of the U.S. military, sat at tables while a county sheriff's deputy told them about their ...

A former Franklin County Sheriff's deputy admitted to telling inmates at the county jail about another detainee's pending sex offense, putting the wheels of an assault in motion. According to U.S.

On May 8, 1966, Franklin County jail inmates revolted against the conditions in the jail. Called the “Mother’s Day Riot” in The Columbus Dispatch, inmates smashed about fifty windows, ripped out two ...

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, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office hosted its annual Thanksgiving dinner for inmates. The jail staff served a special Thanksgiving dinner for 80 inmates on ...

A former Franklin County Sheriff's Office jail deputy pleaded guilty on Friday in U.S. District Court to depriving an inmate of his civil rights by instigating an inmate fight in 2022. The U.S.