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Who’s in Ohio’s psychiatric hospitals, how did they get there and when do they get out?

By Doug Livingston & The Marshall Project ● Health ● January 7, 2026

Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more patients.

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Celebrating The Land’s Lakewood Community Journalism program

By The Land ● Arts & Culture ● January 1, 2026

The Land launched a Lakewood Community Journalism program in 2025. See some of the great stories our students wrote last year!

Officer who killed Tamir Rice fired from ranger position in West Virginia

By The Associated Press ● Communities ● December 23, 2025

A former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice has been fired from his new post as a ranger in West Virginia. It’s the fourth known time in seven years that Timothy Loehmann left a small department amid community backlash.

Global Initiative program enables the Renee Jones Empowerment Center to mentor Malawi in human trafficking

By Christopher Johnston ● Public Safety ● December 22, 2025

Since 2023, Renee Jones has led a Global Initiative program that has significantly empowered Malawi, Africa, one of the world’s poorest nations, to combat human trafficking.

Advocates, front-line providers ramp up support for Cleveland’s unhoused this winter

By Taylor Wilson ● Social Equity ● December 15, 2025

“Warm weather shelters, cold weather shelters, specifically in our current climate, in communities like Cleveland and other places that have harsher winters or are even harsher summers, are lifesaving interventions.”

‘Substantial risk’: Mohican Young Star Academy admissions suspended as state investigates

By Brittany Hailer & The Marshall Project ● Public Safety ● December 6, 2025

Weeks after The Marshall Project – Cleveland found escalating violence, Ohio’s embattled youth treatment center is once again facing scrutiny.

Getting a single parking ticket in Lorain led hundreds to lose their driver’s licenses

By The Marshall Project & Mark Puente ● Civic Engagement ● November 25, 2025

A Marshall Project – Cleveland investigation has prompted city officials to stop issuing parking citations that, for years, led to license suspensions.

Migrants thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap

By The Associated Press ● Communities ● November 19, 2025

The nation’s immigration courts have undergone a fundamental change under the administration of President Donald Trump. He pledged to impose hardline immigration policies, an issue that was popular with his voters. In practice, the administration has resorted to unusually aggressive tactics, many of which have played out in immigration courts in the United States.

Have you ever wanted to ride along in a patrol car? Lakewood Police Department Citizens’ Police Academy is your chance

By Sharyn Arai ● Communities ● November 6, 2025

Have you ever wanted to ride along with a police officer? Applications are open for the 2026 Lakewood Citizen’s Police Academy.

‘It was chaos’: How an Ohio youth treatment center tried to put an end to rising violence

By Brittany Hailer & The Marshall Project ● Public Safety ● November 6, 2025

A year after taking over Mohican Young Star Academy, new owners and leadership face questions from workers, police and neighbors about its direction.