Incarceration

CGL Cos.’ financial feasibility assessment concludes deprivatizing George W. Hill Correctional Facility could reduce costs to Delaware County taxpayers.

Rodney Hargrove had just posted bail when he was shot and killed in front of the Curran-Fromhold jail. Three weeks later, procedural changes are in the works.

At a press conference, they addressed allegations of abuse of children and teenagers by staff at the now-shuttered county facility in Lima.

Days after a young man was murdered on prison grounds, Philadelphia’s union for city correctional officers is calling on Prisons Commissioner Blanche Carney to resign.

Twenty-year-old Rodney Hargrove was killed roughly an hour after he left Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility.

A county judge vacated the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center after the Public Defender’s Office sent a letter detailing allegations of abuse.

Outlaw filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Philadelphia and the two detectives who investigated the killing of Jamal Kelly in 2000.

While the vast majority of Pennsylvania’s prisoners reject flu shots, most who were offered a COVID-19 vaccine have taken it.

Supporters say the bill recognizes the extra hardship a public health crisis puts on people who are incarcerated.

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A national council of current and formerly incarcerated women wants the president to grant 100 women clemency by April 30. There's a backlog of 14,000 petitions.

Eastern State Penitentiary and other cultural institutions were forced to close under a citywide mandate amid Philly’s rising COVID-19 cases.

One woman whose fiancé is incarcerated says they will stick with video for now, rather than deal with plexiglass dividers and masks required for in-person visits.

After a person exposed to COVID-19 while incarcerated entered a city courtroom, Philadelphia said it will begin testing prison inmates ahead of trials.

COVID-19 continues to spread inside Pennsylvania prisons, prompting renewed calls to release all older and medically vulnerable prisoners.