Ross Correctional Institution News

Terry Collins, a Chillicothe native who has guided the state correctional system for more than three years and been involved in state service for 33 years, is stepping down as director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

A woman turned herself in on a secret indictment warrant for allegedly passing drugs to her incarcerated son.

No one was injured when a Highland County sheriff's deputy went off the roadway into a ditch Wednesday morning on U.S. 50 and California Hollow Road.

The charges were serious, and so were the consequences -- at least initially. A guard at the Ross Correctional Institution was accused of using a workplace computer to show sexually explicit images to a female co-worker. According to state personnel records, he also made lewd comments to the co-worker about her body -- with an inmate looking on.

COLUMBUS -- A Ross Correctional Institution inmate will see if a federal jury agrees that jail employees in Muskingum County used excessive force against him.

After two and a half years in federal and state prisons, Ravenna's former mayor will be released from prison today.

The union that represents corrections officers at Ross Correctional Institution believes a proposed plan to close security posts could jeopardize safety around the prison.

Donations from Ross Correctional Institution employees and inmates resulted in more than $2,700 raised for 'Operation Feed,' which helps local food banks.

After two and a half years in federal and state prisons, Ravenna's former mayor is coming home - but not to Ravenna.

After two and a half years in federal and state prisons, Ravenna's former mayor is coming home - but not to Ravenna.

The summer sun beat down on Adam Conn's shoulders like it did when he was a boy cutting tobacco in Kentucky.

In addition to the indictment of a Waverly man on six counts of steroid possession, the grand jury returned 14 other indictments, six of them open.

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Two local women accused of attempting to get prohibited items to a Ross Correctional Facility inmate by throwing the items over a fence were indicted Friday by a Ross County grand jury.

A gas line broke at the Ross Correctional Institution farm camp Monday morning, causing some traffic disruption.