As administrator of the Pickaway County Jail, Carpenter oversees a program started last year that gets inmates into a medication-assisted treatment program for opiate addiction immediately upon ...

A prisoner hanged himself with a bed sheet in his cell at the Pickaway County jail early today. Deputies found Clyde W. Blake II, 28, of Circleville, while checking on prisoners about 2:05 a.m. He ...

PICKAWAY COUNTY, Ohio - The Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office says an inmate worker who walked away from the Pickaway County Jail Wednesday morning is now back in custody. The escape happened ...

Pickaway County deputies say an inmate who walked away from work detail, yesterday, has been captured. According to the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office, at about 5am, Wednesday, inmate worker ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Four inmates overdosed in two days at the same Ohio prison earlier this year, requiring the use of CPR and doses of an anti-overdose drug as guards scrambled to revive the ...

Governor Mike DeWine announced today that Pickaway County will receive $4.49 million in state funding to enhance safety and security at its jail as part of a $50 million investment in local jail ...

The inmate in the deputy's van was taken to OhioHealth Berger Hospital and is still in custody. "Sheriff Hafey and the rest of the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office would like to express our ...

Kin died at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post Thursday afternoon. Deputy Kin, of Upper Sandusky, was ferrying the inmate in a ...

The inmate in the deputy's van was taken to OhioHealth Berger Hospital and is still in custody. "Sheriff Hafey and the rest of the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office would like to express our ...

The "inmate was unresponsive, blue in the face and lips and did not have a pulse nor was he breathing," according to a report on an overdose late in the evening of Feb. 18 at Pickaway Correctional ...