Incarceration

Congress expanded the compassionate release process in 2018 when it passed the First Step Act. Efforts to reform state programs are underway across the country.

P.O.C. hit the streets of Philadelphia to see how residents feel about staff shortages and worsening conditions at local jails.

Philadelphia’s prison system is offering in-person visits for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, though with restrictions.

The Graterford crisis was one of many negotiated by well-trusted Chuck Stone, who spent two decades at the Daily News.

A lawsuit against Clearfield County could at least pause the establishment of one of the largest and private detention centers in the northeast.

DA Larry Krasner and challenger criminal defense attorney Charles Peruto join us to discuss the Philadelphia DA race, criminal justice, and the city's soaring homicide rates.

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.