Officials said the Franklin County Jail is "in the middle of a safety emergency." The jail has had an increase in inmate ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 Whitnel on Dec. 13 in Paducah, has been formally indicted by a ...

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 ...