"Honest, hardworking, hard-charging and not one to suffer fools easily. "Tough, contentious, funny, loving, faithful, compassionate." Those were the words Brooke Karnes Carnevale said have been used ...

That’s because corrections deputies are only legally allowed to carrying weapons and arrest people because they are commissioned under the authority of Sheriff Jim Raymond. If the county takes over ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Franklin County officials plan to demolish the former Downtown jail next year, clearing the way for a potential mixed-use redevelopment that could include an early learning ...

According to one study, about 40% of adult inmates will re-offend within three years. In Franklin County, commissioners have approved $360 million to spend on building a new jail that focuses on ...

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.

Teamsters Local 839 is taking the Franklin County sheriff to court over his decision to limit the union’s access at the jail. The union represents the county’s corrections deputies. The civil suit ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Waiting in the inmate intake area of Franklin County’s new jail is not unlike waiting in an airport. At least when it’s empty. That’s how it felt on Wednesday during a community ...

Following his arrest in Franklin County, Phillip Whitnel, the suspected shooter in the incident that killed Stephanie Stacey ...

The Franklin County House of Correction in Greenfield was the first in the state and among the first in the country to provide methadone in-house for its clients in an effort to subdue their addiction ...

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 ...