/news/tags/ohio-sentencing-laws Ohio sentencing laws en-US Copyright Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:49:48 GMT /news/government-politics/2020-06-25/study-shows-passing-criminal-sentencing-bill-would-keep-thousands-of-ohioans-healthier Two bills under consideration in the Ohio Legislature would change sentencing for low-level drug crimes to intervention over incarceration. A new study... Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:49:48 GMT /news/government-politics/2020-06-25/study-shows-passing-criminal-sentencing-bill-would-keep-thousands-of-ohioans-healthier Jo Ingles, Jo Ingles /news/government-politics/2017-04-09/cleveland-releases-five-from-jail-after-traffic-code-sentencing-oversight For the past 10 months, a defendants in traffic cases received sentences higher than allowed under city code. In May of last year, the city did a routine… Mon, 10 Apr 2017 02:35:37 GMT /news/government-politics/2017-04-09/cleveland-releases-five-from-jail-after-traffic-code-sentencing-oversight Nick Castele /news/government-politics/2016-12-27/the-head-of-ohios-prisons-pushes-for-an-overhaul-of-ohios-sentencing-laws About a quarter of Ohio’s employees work for its prison system. So a shrinking state budget will likely affect that department. But that’s not the only… Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:11:00 GMT /news/government-politics/2016-12-27/the-head-of-ohios-prisons-pushes-for-an-overhaul-of-ohios-sentencing-laws M.L. Schultze