Ohio jail population falling, but overall incarceration rate rising

The number of people in Ohio jails is dropping, but the steadily rising inmate population of state prisons is more than enough to boost the state's overall incarceration rate. The latest update by the Vera Institute of Justice Incarceration Trends Project showed Ohio's jail population was 237.7 per 100,000 residents in 2014, well below the national average of 326 per 100,000