USA: A drone dropped a package of drugs into a prison yard in Ohio while inmates were outside, sparking a fight, prison officials said.

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro said he called the mother of one of his captives and told the woman her daughter was alive and had become his wife, according to interrogation videotapes.

US kidnapper Ariel Castro called the mother of one of his victims while she was in captivity and told her she was okay, according to reports.

Ohio’s prison system is reviewing how Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro - perhaps the most notorious figure behind bars in the state – managed to hang himself with a bedsheet while in protective custody.

Ariel Castro, who held three women captive in his Ohio home for nearly a decade, has committed suicide at a state prison facility.