The 50 or so guard members will assist with “mission critical functions” at the Marion Correctional Institution, said JoEllen Smith, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and ...

Marion Correctional Institution is the site of the biggest coronavirus outbreak in Ohio, driving Marion County to the highest rate of COVID-19 cases in the state. The situation at MCI is serious ...

MARION — Prisoners at Marion Correctional Institution have reported feeling helpless and relatively unprotected against the new coronavirus, which has infected at least 47 prisoners there. The Marion ...

When Ohio tested all of its prison inmates for the coronavirus, Marion Correctional Institution was found to be a hotspot for COVID-19, with more than 1,900 men – about 80 percent of the prison ...

MARION — A flare-up of the novel coronavirus at the Marion prison has decimated staff there, dozens of whom have fallen ill to the virus, new numbers show. At least 34 staff members and nine inmates ...

MARION, Ohio – The regulars begin pulling into the tiny gas station well before dawn. They grab Monster energy drinks and tins of Copenhagen chewing tobacco and pay for them behind a wall of ...

MARION, Ohio — The population of Ohio's Marion County is just over 65,000. Yet, as of Tuesday, it has the highest number of cases of COVID-19 in the state. The outbreak of coronavirus can be traced to ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Jason Thompson lay awake in his dormitory bed in the Marion ...