Articles About Greene County Jail

• Man arrested in connection with Hawthorne Apartments fire

  By Reilly DixonMarch 6, 2024

  

  On Monday, Feb. 26, a local resident was arrested in connection to the fire that erupted at the Hawthorne Place Apartments last summer. He is being charged with aggravated arson, burglary and possessing criminal tools, and is presently in custody at the Greene County Jail. 

• Efforts seek bail reform

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 17, 2021

  

  As of Tuesday afternoon last week, 225 people awaiting trial were being held at one of two Greene County jail facilities — the downtown jail and the Adult Detention Center. Many of those individuals remained behind bars over the holidays, lacking the bail money that allows release until a scheduled court date.

• Greene County Jail— Avoiding a COVID outbreak

  By Audrey HackettJuly 17, 2020

  

  In late May, an inmate transferred to state prison from Greene County Jail was tested by the state for COVID-19 and found positive. The individual hadn’t displayed any symptoms, and had a normal temperature upon leaving the county jail, according to jail administrator Major Kirk Keller this week. Keller asked the state to re-test the inmate, but the state declined.

• Sankofa Talk — Fighting ’til the last day

  By Bomani MoyendaApril 27, 2020

  

  Bomani Moyenda speaks about organizing with the activist group Greene County Citizens Against Giant Jail Tax ahead of the 2020 primary.

• Lonya Clark murder case moves forward

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 28, 2019

  

  Area resident Zyrian Atha-Arnett is expected to be in court Thursday afternoon, Nov. 21, to plead to charges related to the stabbing death earlier this year of Yellow Springs resident Leonid “Lonya” Clark.

• Greene County— Designs for a new jail

  By Audrey HackettMay 16, 2019

  

  A consulting firm hired by Greene County has so far come up with four possible design options for a new local county jail complex.

• Greene County— Jail options considered

  By Audrey HackettMay 9, 2019

  

  When villager Don Hollister toured the Greene County Jail in downtown Xenia as part of a citizen group a year ago November, he was shocked by how stark it was. “My clearest impression looking at the barred cells was that it seemed out of a movie,” he said. “It fit every stereotype I had of an urban jail.”

• Double-murder case comes to an end

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 27, 2018

  

  You are never getting out of prison,” Judge Michael Buckwalter told Dustin Merrick last week during the 27-year-old’s sentencing for the double murder early last year.

• Story Chain connects incarcerated parents with their children

  By Matt MindeSeptember 13, 2018

  

  Krista Vandyke was a participant in Story Chain, a program that gives inmates the opportunity to read to their children from the confines of incarceration. 

• Bianca Stone Chappelle released

  By Megan BachmanAugust 15, 2013

  Bianca Stone Chappelle will be sentenced Sept. 4 in Greene County Common Pleas Court after being found guilty last month on some charges but cleared of more serious ones.