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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

Nicole and Chuck Gesing attend Sunday Mass at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Glenside, Pa. (Bastiaan Slabbers for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Haunted by clergy abuse, Pa. family leaves Catholic Church after years-long struggle

Each time there’s a new report or newspaper article about sex abuse in the Catholic Church, Chuck Gesin ...

7 years ago

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Steve Austin, a facilitator of Philadelphia's participatory defense program, talks about tapping the resources of the community that knows defendants. (Bastiaan Slabbers for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

In Philadelphia, a community-based program teaches defendants how to help themselves

It was an early autumn afternoon in 1975 — a moment that Steve Austin wishes he could take back. ...

7 years ago

Listen 5:01
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Interactive map: a county-by-county look at spending on public defense in Pennsylvania

How much does your county spend on public defense? In Penns ...

7 years ago

The Blair County Courthouse sits on Allegheny Street in Hollidaysburg, PA. Private funding for the District Attorney Office and local law enforcement has put immense pressure on the county's public defenders. (Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

With private money fueling fight against drug crime in Blair County, public defenders feel squeezed

The opioid crisis has brought with it an onslaught of drug cases that are adding to the burdens of public defenders.

7 years ago

The state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Supporters of sentencing reform say next year, they may see success

A bill that would end Pennsylvania's frequent use of mandatory life-without-parole sentences has hit a wall in the state Senate.

7 years ago

(Big Stock photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. banking on new program providing inmates with financial savvy to succeed

State research shows three-quarters of inmates with bank accounts do not return to prison. Of those who do come back, only 39 percent have bank accounts.

7 years ago

Shawnray Byrd has been represented by the Allegheny County Public Defenders Office four times since 2001. (An-Li Herring/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Decades after landmark lawsuit, caseload concerns continue in Allegheny County’s public defender office

On a humid summer day, Shawnray Byrd works a new job renovating a home just outside Pittsburgh. During a break, he says he’s grateful t ...

7 years ago

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State Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, R-Montgomery. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Despite outlier status, Pa. lawmakers don’t make public defense a priority

If you hunt hard enough around Harrisburg, it is possible to find lawmakers who are on board with allocat ...

7 years ago

Listen 6:57
The state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania posts historically strong state revenue collections

Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office is reporting historically strong state revenue collections thr ...

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale (Chris Knight/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. auditor general cracks down on school districts in recent reports

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale has targeted two school districts in recent weeks for mis ...

7 years ago

Republican Scott Wagner (left) has vowed to stomp on the face of Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, in the increasingly vitriolic Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign. A Wagner campaign spokesman says the threat was metaphorical. (AP file photos)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

A month before the election, Wolf, Wagner continue trading barbs over education

Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidates Tom Wolf and Scott Wagner have continued to trade barbs over educat ...

7 years ago

The state Supreme Court redrew Pennsylvania's congressional map this year. Legislators are having a hard time agreeing on how to reform the reapportionment process going forward.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. lawmakers float some redistricting ideas, but few expect results

The legislature's already out of time to change the state redistricting process before the next reapportionment in 2021.

7 years ago

Crystal Weimer was arrested in 2004 for third degree murder, a crime she didn’t commit. She spent nearly 12 years in prison and was exonerated on June 27, 2016, and all charges were dropped with prejudice. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Wrongful murder conviction points to problems with public defense in Pa. — only state without central funding, oversight

Crystal Weimer’s nightmare began in 2004, when she was arrested for a crime she didn’t commit. ...

7 years ago

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(WITF, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Bill freeing Pa. students from standardized test graduation requirement advances in Statehouse

A new bill would scrap the idea that high school students in Pennsylvania need to score proficient on sta ...

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference about clergy sexual abuse at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018.   (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. Supreme Court questions attorneys about redactions in clergy report

In the first public arguments in the case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday ...

7 years ago

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