Criminal Justice

In-person visits have been either halted or limited during the last three years, depending on the severity of community spread of COVID-19.

Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday he will not allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and called for the state's lawmakers to repeal the death penalty.

Delaware County officials want the public to attend one of their upcoming community meetings as it pushes to build a new juvenile detention center.

Advocates argue that new legislation upping penalties for fentanyl will unfairly punish people from communities impacted by the war on drugs.

Philly job readiness, education, and legal help programs aim to give opportunities to people with criminal records, in hopes of ending the cycle of gun violence.

Prosecutors wanted the sentence to reflect the “gravity’’ of Kevin Seefried’s crimes. The defendant’s lawyer says he knows “history may view him as a racist.”

Assistant District Attorney Anthony Voci was sent to the insurance fraud unit after the September 2020 incident that sent a young woman to jail.

The Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center closed in 2021. County officials believe a new building, model, and proper oversight will lead to different results.

The 26-year-old Clifton man was due to make his initial appearance Thursday in federal court in Newark, and it wasn’t known if he has an attorney.

The NFL says Sills may not practice, play or travel with the team after being indicted on rape and kidnapping charges in Ohio.

Darrel Wiley has been a K9 handler in the prison system since 2006. Authorities say he repeatedly left Lux in his work vehicle for up to eight hours.

The nation and the city of Memphis are struggling to come to grips with video showing five disgraced police officers pummeling Tyre Nichols.

Several years ago, Delaware County was “incarcerating at levels that were unmatched across the state.” Now, county officials say they have changed course.

Video showing five Memphis officers beating a Black man has been made public.

According to court records, Keffer appeared to be drunk, got in a crash and ultimately refused a blood test.