‘Say their names!’: Families protest mounting COVID-19 deaths in N.J. prisons

Multiple state prisons in Pennsylvania lack air conditioning, leaving thousands of incarcerated people at risk during increasingly common high temperatures.

While most incarcerated workers today help maintain correctional facilities, others are leased out to private companies or take part in work-release programs.

Data shows fewer than 50 people were released in the last 14 years under the current compassionate release law.