Incarceration

They've been trying to get officials to discuss their anti-violence plan, but realize “it may feel a little uncomfortable to defer to the ideas of prisoners for solutions.”

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is hoping to enshrine similar programs and funding into state law permanently, and to do it before Gov. Wolf leaves office next year.

About 50 cars moved through the neighborhood around Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on State Road, decrying ‘unconstitutional conditions.’

The prison system again shut down face-to-face visits with loved ones on Jan. 1. as a precautionary measure during the record-setting winter surge.

The Pa. attorney general’s Conviction Integrity Section looked into the case. The investigation over, his attorney has petitioned Delaware County Court.

Once a candidate for Delaware governor, Mike Protack will spend the next year behind bars after pleading guilty to mailing threats to his ex-wife’s attorney.

A Berks County detention center for immigrant families has reopened, this time detaining only adult women, according to immigration attorneys.

Some who testified were dismayed that City Council isn’t doing more to address prison gerrymandering in the map plan it’s poised to pass.

In-person visits will be stopped at all state correctional institutions starting on Thursday and lasting until Feb. 28.

The first of several lawsuits coming from the civil rights organization accuses a correctional officer of leading the beatings of two men last year, a month apart.

The judge said the rights of Willie Stokes were violated because he wasn't told that a key witness against him had been prosecuted for perjury after his conviction.

A truck driver sentenced to 110 years for an explosive crash that killed four people in suburban Denver moved a step closer to potentially having his prison term reduced.

In a rare reversal, the Justice Department said the prison system has discretion to allow people released to home confinement during the pandemic to remain free.

The spike in Philadelphia youth involved in gun violence has staff at the school district’s Juvenile Justice Services Center School calling for help.

Eighteen men incarcerated at SCI Phoenix said they see their donation as a small way to help disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, from the inside.