Incarceration

Students who were deprived of special education services while incarcerated are eligible to receive up to $8,000 per year in “compensatory education” benefits.

The department is directing prosecutors to stop limiting peoples' rights to seek compassionate release from prison in plea deals, a practice that advocates called cruel.

The Delaware County Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration rallied to demand that the district attorney address his failures, or step down.

Officer James Pitts is accused of forcing a confession out of a man who couldn’t have been involved in the crime.

As mask mandates and vaccine requirements are lifted due to falling COVID numbers, in-person visitation will start again March 7.

This transition of operations takes place on the day the $259 million contract with prison operator, GEO Group, is officially terminated.

The civil rights organization sued Sussex Correctional Center in December on behalf of two detainees. Now 17 more current and former prisoners have joined the case.

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.