Incarceration

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.

In 2016, Wright became the 344th person to be exonerated by DNA in the nation. He’s been fighting for others he says were railroaded by the system.

The union, representing about 10,000 guards in Pennsylvania's prisons, told Gov. Tom Wolf Thursday it plans legal action to stop his effort to force them to get vaccinated.

Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver signed into law a bill that would pilot service hubs in four cities to help young offenders reintegrate into their communities.

Corrections Secretary John Wetzel said the policies are part of the system’s effort to limit the contact the unvaccinated have with potential carriers of the coronavirus.

Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the death penalty in the four other deaths, which are being prosecuted in a different county.