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Gov. Mike DeWine wants a working group to examine problems found by an eight-month investigation into Ohio's youth prisons and local detention centers.

We’ll go behind the scenes with the reporters on the project and learn what they discovered about the juvenile lockups and what, if anything, is being done to fix them.

Journalists from USA TODAY's network of Ohio newspapers spent eight months investigating what happens to kids behind bars. Here's what they found.

The responsibility for running Ohio's youth prisons and local juvenile detention centers rests with the governor and juvenile court judges.

Detention and prison is a last chance to help Ohio kids turn their lives around. But our investigation found the system is plagued with problems.

Barbara J. Perenic/The Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK)

You’re shifting gears to head into the weekend, so here's what happened with the top stories in U.S. politics this week.

Sometimes, the human body fends off death for reasons we don’t yet fully understand.

Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine said this week that he will seek changes to Issue 2, the state’s recreational marijuana initiative that voters passed on Tuesday.

"Several Republican lawmakers plan to fight the recently approved abortion rights amendment by trying to overthrow the judicial branch's authority to interpret it," the Columbus Dispatch reports."Ohio voters approved protections for abortion and other reproductive rights, 57-43%, Tuesday. Aborti