After series of deaths, Cuyahoga County Jail struggles to implement new CPR policy
Jail officials updated an employee handbook in January to require CPR in medical emergencies, but they haven’t informed most corrections officers yet.
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State reverses course, finds Cuyahoga Jail staff failed to start CPR in Wade’s death
State inspectors said jail staff failed to provide CPR to Jennifer Wade after finding her unresponsive in her cell in February 2025.
We asked Ohio’s death row what they think of governor’s death penalty reversal
Like Gov. Mike DeWine, most agreed the death penalty is broken and does not deter crime, but not always with the same reasoning.
Ohio governor grants mercy to man on death row for first time
Weeks before calling to abolish capital punishment in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine commuted the man's death sentence to life in prison without parole.
Cuyahoga County Jail leaders knew their cameras were broken and took 4 years to fix them
A glitch in the surveillance system discovered in 2022 has finally been fixed. Families and inspectors could have used that evidence.
New videos show ‘absolutely egregious care’ in 2025 Cuyahoga County Jail death
Ohio reopens review of Jennifer Wade’s death after county officials failed to provide body cam footage.
‘Like the Walking Dead’: Smuggled drugs fuel chaos inside Ohio prisons
Prison officials are struggling to keep out drug-soaked paper, fueling a multimillion-dollar black market economy that stokes chaos, violence and death
Deadly errors: Why people keep dying inside Cuyahoga County’s Jail
Jail administrators fail to fix mistakes that continue to cost lives, an analysis of state records by The Marshall Project - Cleveland shows.
Who’s in Ohio’s psychiatric hospitals, how did they get there and when do they get out?
Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more patients.
Criminally ill: Systemic failures turn state mental hospitals into prisons
A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in Ohio’s state psychiatric hospitals.
