Jeffrey Wilkins has been in prison 16 of the last 19 years. He said he was stuck in a cycle. Wilkins said he previously put ...

Starting this summer, Butler County judges will no longer send some felony offenders to prison, so officials are applying for a $1.2 million grant to help pay for dealing with the scofflaws locally. A ...

A Butler County Prison inmate accused of stabbing a man to death was found with two metal shanks, according to Butler County ...

The federal government will soon pay the Butler County jail even more money to house ICE detainees.Earlier this year, the Butler County Jail restarted it's federal contract with the Department of ...

People showed up to protest the Butler County Jail's contract with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

For the past month, large counties like Butler County have been forced to house low-level felony offenders locally rather than shipping them off to prison.At least part of the $600,000 appropriation ...

Previous coverage of the Butler County Jail above. DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – State Representatives Christine Cockley and Mark Sigrist, along with Senator (District 25) William P. DeMora, penned a letter ...

The man serving time for the death of Katelyn Markham is asking a judge to let him out of prison early and Butler County’s prosecutor is responding.Katelyn Markham disappeared from her Fairfield ...

Butler County jail officials say it’s hard to know how many people in the jail are developmentally disabled or suffer from mental health issues, as they aren’t required to keep that statistic; but ...