Trump’s Union Order Endangers Federal Prison Officers, Labor Leaders Say Supporters of the union, which represents 30,000 prison employees, fear the move will worsen an ongoing staffing crisis. themarshallproject.org/2025/03/31/tru…

Not a single person has been released early, according to a Marshall Project - Cleveland review of prison records for the past six years. Meanwhile, 700 people — mostly Black men — have been denied release due to added time. via Doug Livingston themarshallproject.org/2025/04/17/ohi…

A third person has died in custody of the Cuyahoga County Jail this year. A 39-year-old woman was pronounced dead at MetroHealth medical center after a transfer due to “preexisting medical conditions that resulted in a medical emergency.” She is the second woman to die this year

It's the architecture, stupid. Ivy Scott, Brittany Hailer, and Daja E. Henry 🌸 on a key reason why jails are so dysfunctional and deadly: No fresh air or sunlight themarshallproject.org/2025/05/21/sun…

Cleveland and Cuyahoga County say they are walking away from task force meetings with the Greater Cleveland Partnership, protesting GCP executive committee’s endorsement of a suburban Browns domed stadium.

The unbearable darkness of the Cuyahoga County jail ideastream.org/2025-05-22/the…

Prison walls shouldn’t stop a person from appealing a conviction or alleging abuses. But a 2021 crackdown on drug smuggling in the mail has delayed or prevented legal documents from reaching people inside Ohio’s 28 state prisons. Via ⁦Doug Livingston⁩ themarshallproject.org/2025/06/23/leg…

EMS runs and emergency department visits have been on the rise at the Cuyahoga County Jail, outpacing growth in the avg. jail population. The jail was the No. 1 destination for Cleveland ambulances last year, according to stats collected by the EMS union.

MetroHealth: "We have seen an increase in the complexity of healthcare needs of the jail population over the last several years." More from Celia Hack and me for Signal Cleveland: signalcleveland.org/cleveland-ems-…

Conditions Inside Cuyahoga County Jail Amid Heatwave, No Air Conditioning: “They had us locked up because they were saying they didn't have enough correctional officers, so they couldn't let us out. It was draining my body.” themarshallproject.org/2025/07/03/cuy…

A Cuyahoga County Jail corrections officer was sent to the hospital last week for heat-related illness when the jail’s AC shutoff. Incarcerated persons reported medical emergencies and delays in getting released due to short staffing. themarshallproject.org/2025/07/03/cuy…

What, to the American Incarcerated Person, Is Your Fourth of July? themarshallproject.org/2025/07/04/wha…

Welp. Gov. Mike DeWine signs measure allowing Ohio lawmakers to shield texts, emails from public view - cleveland.com/news/2025/07/g…