Incarceration

Philly pizza spot earns plaudits for Detroit-style pies and a mission to staff the operation with only formerly incarcerated people.

More than 65% of people released from Delaware prisons in 2016 were re-convicted within three years. A new blueprint from the state aims to change that.

Delaware County officials kept a campaign promise with the vote to terminate GEO Group’s contract to operate Pennsylvania’s only privately run county prison.

State lawmakers may soon do something not seen in recent history: use two significantly different sets of data to draw state and federal election maps.

The action sets the stage for a vote by the Delaware County Council next week that could return the only privately run prison in Pa. to county control.

A commission added a carveout to count those serving sentences that will end after April 1, 2030 — the date of the next census — in prison districts.

The Delaware County panel is looking at late September or early October for a special meeting to determine the fate of GEO Group’s contract.

If the U.S. had done more to reduce its incarceration rate, it could have prevented millions of COVID-19 cases.

Political mapmakers told to count inmates where they had lived, not in towns where they are jailed.

Connections Community Support Programs has agreed to pay more than $15 million to settle charges of fraud and controlled substances allegations.

The commission redrawing Pa.’s House and Senate maps has voted to stop counting state prisoners as residents of the districts where they’re incarcerated.

The law disallows renewal of existing contracts or any new contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house immigration detainees.

The county-owned facility is no longer holding immigrant families.

Workers at the center, ordered shut amid abuse allegations, say they are falling on hard times. Their benefits and health insurance expire Sept. 3.

A central Pennsylvania prison ended its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday, terminating a decadeslong practice.