Ohio's Statehouse-to-Prison Pipeline 135th General Assembly (2023-2024)

Document Date: March 27, 2025

Ohio’s General Assembly has a serious mass incarceration problem. Each year, legislators of both parties introduce laws that create new crimes or extend the scope of existing laws and lengthen prison and jail sentences.

This is the Statehouse-to-Prison Pipeline.

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