All inmates at the Marion Correctional Institution are being tested for COVID-19 as the prison has the highest number of people who have tested positive for the disease, state officials said Sunday.

According to prison statistics released Sunday by the Ohio Department of Health, 1,828 inmates and 109 staff members at MCI have tested positive for the strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19.

The largest-known coronavirus hotspot in the country isn’t in New York or California: it’s the Marion Correctional Institution, an Ohio state prison about 50 miles north of Columbus. According ...

Although Marion is part of the federal Bureau of Prisons, one-third of its 350 inmates, all of whom are men, have been transferred from state prisons and the District of Columbia.

COLUMBUS, Ohio --Two Ohio prisoners took discarded computers and used them to access the prison’s network, create inmate passes for restricted areas and apply for credit cards under another ...