COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Three of five Ohio inmates sentenced to death for an historic prison riot plan a hunger strike starting on the uprising’s 20th anniversary Thursday to protest the state ...

Vallandingham was among 12 staff members taken hostage on April 11, 1993, when inmates overtook the prison that sits 10 miles north of the Ohio River.

Meanwhile, Ohio prison director Annette Chambers-Smith has denied every application for early release under the new law. After more than 20 years of fixed prison terms, the Reagan Tokes law ...

Prison administrators could not say whether the threat of longer sentences under the Reagan Tokes law might counter rising levels of violence in Ohio prisons. One official suggested that the law would ...