Why No One in Ohio Prisons Has Been Released Early Under Reform Law

Why No One in Ohio Prisons Has Been Released Early Under Reform Law

Intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release, the law is turning out as unbalanced as critics feared, with sentences extended at every turn.

All stick, no carrot: Ohio’s Reagan Tokes Law acts as a ‘one-way ratchet’ for prison time – The Land

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project – Cleveland, a nonprofit news team covering Ohio’s criminal justice systems. Sign up for their Cleveland newsletter and Facebook Group, and follow The Marshall Project on Instagram, Reddit and YouTube. In the final month of his two-year prison term, a guard ordered Lamar Clark Jr. into a cramped office. Against the blurred background of a computer screen, a professionally dresse…

Why people stay longer in prison under Ohio's Reagan Tokes law

In the final month of his two-year prison term, a guard ordered Lamar Clark Jr. into a cramped office. Against the blurred background of a computer screen, a professionally dressed woman appeared on camera and explained that Clark would not be going home to Cleveland. A new state law required that he spend another year in prison. The reason: Another incarcerated person claimed that Clark had attacked him in 2023 during a riot at Lake Erie Correc…