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Incarceration

Democratic County Council member Kevin Madden (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delco’s Jail Oversight Board to vote on the fate of Pennsylvania’s only for-profit county prison

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.

4 years ago

NPR
Health

Crowded U.S. jails drove millions of COVID-19 cases, a new study says

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

4 years ago

The interior of a New Jersey prison
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

End of ‘prison gerrymandering’ means changes to redistricting

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

4 years ago

Delaware prison
Courts & Law

Former Delaware prison health care provider to pay $15M to settle federal lawsuits

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

4 years ago

The Pennsylvania state Capitol in winter
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. ends ‘prison gerrymandering’ with closely divided committee vote

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.

4 years ago

Listen 7:50
(NJ Spotlight)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

Murphy signs law that bans contracts with ICE for detention of immigrants

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

4 years ago

County solicitor Christine Sadler, Commissioner Chair Christian Leinbach and Commissioner Michael Rivera at Thursday's meeting
Courts & Law
WITF

Berks County to detain asylum-seeking immigrant women for feds

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

4 years ago

Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center (Google Maps)
Courts & Law

‘A lot of us feel betrayed’: Former employees of Delco’s closed juvenile detention center ask county for help

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

4 years ago

Members of immigrant advocate organizations rallied outside the ICE detention center in Philadelphia, demanding the release of detainees on August 12, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

York County Prison has no more ICE detainees. Advocates call it a ‘partial victory’

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

4 years ago

Anthony Wright celebrating his freedom. (Courtesy of Anthony Wright)
Courts & Law

A memoir describes Philadelphia man’s wrongful conviction and fight for justice

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.

4 years ago

Listen 8:19
This June 1, 2018, file photo shows a housing unit in the west section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix in Collegeville, Pa. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)
Politics & Policy

Guards union warns Wolf of legal action over vaccine mandate

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.

4 years ago

N.J. Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver - as acting governor - signs into law a bill that sets asides more than $8 million over two years to pilot a program in four cities that will help youth offenders get reintegrated into the community. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Four N.J. cities to pilot new reentry program for juvenile offenders

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.

4 years ago

This June 1, 2018, file photo shows a housing unit in the west section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix in Collegeville, Pa. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)
Health

Pa. prisons halt visitation for unvaccinated prisoners, will house prisoners by vaccination status

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.

4 years ago

210727-Canton- Robert Aaron Long enters Superior Court of Cherokee County in Canton on Tuesday morning, July 27, 2021, for his plea hearing in the spa shootings. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Courts & Law

Man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life

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

5 years ago

Razor wire and a guard tower stands at a closed section of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay on Oct. 22, 2016. (John Moore/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

What might happen to Guantánamo now that U.S. troops are leaving Afghanistan

Here are five questions — and answers — for what might happen to the prison at Guantánamo as the conflict in Afghanistan ends.

5 years ago

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