After reports circulated earlier this week that an officer was assaulted inside the Franklin County Jail, county officials ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understaffing at Franklin County Jail is leading to a safety and fiscal crisis inside the facility, according to the ...

Officials do agree that help is needed amidst staffing issues at the Franklin County Jail that they say are leading to a ...

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.

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