To appeal his conviction for burglary and related charges, James Bishop needed the legal papers a Jefferson County court clerk had mailed him in prison. But mailroom staff at Ohio’s Noble Correctional ...

In June 2024, federal Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr., of the U.S. Southern District of Ohio, approved an agreement between Ohio prisons Director Annette Chambers-Smith and El-Barseem K. Allah, whose ...

The Ohio Parole Board has denied parole for three inmates convicted of crimes against women in Trumbull County that included ...

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But mailroom staff at Ohio’s Noble Correctional Institution decided there were too many pages. They gave Bishop two options: Have the legal documents destroyed, or pay $4.61 in postage to send ...