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Ohio’s program to fast-track clemency for people convicted of felonies clears 100 pardons
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — An attempted robbery conviction hung like a black cloud over Carla Thomas for more than 20 years. The Akron woman told an audience at Ohio… Read More
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DeWine establishes a task force to look at Ohio’s youth corrections system
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the state has formed a task force to examine, and propose solutions to, problems within the state’s juvenile justice… Read More
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Liberation Now!
A new group that explores different social justice issues through a variety of media and with rotating facilitators – maybe even you! Come meet other advocates and activists every other… Read More
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Liberation Now!
A new group that explores different social justice issues through a variety of media and with rotating facilitators – maybe even you! Come meet other advocates and activists every other… Read More
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Liberation Now!
A new group that explores different social justice issues through a variety of media and with rotating facilitators – maybe even you! Come meet other advocates and activists every other… Read More
![WOUB Digital](https://woub.org/wp-content/themes/2014woub/img/basic.jpg)
Liberation Now!
A new group that explores different social justice issues through a variety of media and with rotating facilitators – maybe even you! Come meet other advocates and activists every other… Read More
![WOUB Digital](https://woub.org/wp-content/themes/2014woub/img/basic.jpg)
Liberation Now!
A new group that explores different social justice issues through a variety of media and with rotating facilitators – maybe even you! Come meet other advocates and activists every other… Read More
![WOUB Digital](https://woub.org/wp-content/themes/2014woub/img/basic.jpg)
Liberation Now!
A new group that explores different social justice issues through a variety of media and with rotating facilitators – maybe even you! Come meet other advocates and activists every other… Read More
![Morgan Brodt kisses her son Axel inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Women's Reformatory in Marysville, Ohio](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ABCs-Scheller-9-scaled-1-e1657943694712-900x422.jpg)
Prison nurseries allow for ‘intimate moments’ important to childhood development
By: Kaitlin Thorne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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MARYSVILLE, Ohio (OVR) — Every morning Gianna wakes up in a wooden crib next to her mother’s bed. Sunlight streams through the window, warming the room and displaying the razor-wire… Read More
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Lawsuit argues Ohio’s police officers aren’t meeting state training requirements
By: Matt Richmond | ideastream
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CLEVELAND (Ideastream) — Mariah Crenshaw has spent years building a case that officers around Ohio are violating state law simply by continuing to serve as officers. It started in 2014…. Read More
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ShotSpotter generates thousands of alerts in Dayton, but officers find few crimes
By: Mawa Iqbal | WYSO
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DAYTON, Ohio (WYSO) — It’s a typical Tuesday at the Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center. In a dimly-lit room, dispatchers hunch over computer monitors, responding to 911 calls through headsets. The… Read More
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Senate President Pushes Back On Report Blaming Lawmakers For Prison Population
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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A report from the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio says nearly one in eight bills introduced by state lawmakers either creates a new crime or expands sentences. But the leader… Read More