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Incarceration

Mayor Cherelle Parker (right), Local 159(b) Eric Desiderio (middle) and Michael Resnik, prisons commissioner, speak at the arbitration announcement June 17, 2024. (Tom MacDonald, WHYY)
Money

Half-staffed: More money for Philly guards as city prisons at 55% staffing level

Better pay and a temporary halt to the residency requirement could help draw new corrections officers from the suburbs.

1 year ago

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The exterior of Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center.
Courts & Law

3 former juvenile detention residents sue Delaware County for alleged sexual abuse

“You have to really think about why this happened for as long as it did,” said the attorney representing the plaintiffs, “and how it was so prevalent.”

1 year ago

Listen 1:08
Sign for oysville Youth Development Center
Courts & Law

Lawsuits claim 66 people were abused as children in Pennsylvania’s juvenile facilities

Some attacks were reported to other staffers and were ignored or met with disbelief.

1 year ago

Cory Booker
Courts & Law

Sen. Cory Booker questions U.S. prison labor policies, calls for change

While most incarcerated workers today help maintain correctional facilities, others are leased out to private companies or take part in work-release programs.

1 year ago

inside a prison
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Costs for Pa. prison system are soaring despite facility closures, putting officials in the hot seat

Prison officials want $300 million in additional taxpayer money in next year’s budget despite a declining population of incarcerated people and the closure of two facilities.

1 year ago

Howard Holland
Community

8 months after prison break, Chester County officials appoint Howard Holland as new warden

Since the escape and manhunt of convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante, Howard Holland has been tasked with improving prison safety and community connections.

1 year ago

A student protests the Israel-Hamas war at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
NPR
Courts & Law

Nearly 300 people arrested at U.S. campus protests against the war in Gaza this weekend

From from Arizona to Massachusetts, universities turned to forced removal of pro-Palestinian protests and encampments as students mount organized opposition.

1 year ago

Pro-bono attorneys Jeff Rosenthal, partner at Blank Rome and JPMorgan Chase's Mary McCullough work together on a pardon in West Philadelphia. (Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza/WHYY)
Community

Why a business coalition wants more employers to overlook criminal records in Philly

Advocates say too much talent is sitting on the sidelines because criminal records are holding some applicants back.

2 years ago

Elmer Daniels
Courts & Law

Delaware judge tosses lawsuit filed by man who served nearly 40 years for rape he may not have committed

The judge on Monday found that Elmer Daniels failed to prove his argument that Delaware police had concocted evidence against him and withheld exculpatory evidence.

2 years ago

Gavel
Courts & Law

New Jersey youth wrestling coach sentenced to more than 7 years in child sex abuse images case

In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi sentenced Alec Donovan to 30 years of supervised release, prosecutors said.

2 years ago

The Delaware County Court of Common Pleas
Courts & Law

3 Chester men have convictions overturned after decades behind bars in Henrietta Nickens’ 1997 killing

The three defendants were convicted even though DNA testing at the time showed that evidence found in the victim’s body did not match any of them, attorneys said.

2 years ago

Blanche Carney
Community

Philadelphia prison chief to leave job after string of prisoner deaths and escapes

Since 2016, Blanche Carney has overseen the city’s prisons and jails, which have been dealing with violence and the escape of four prisoners in a span of six months last year.

2 years ago

Attorney Paul Lang,
Courts & Law

Bensalem teen accused of killing 12-year-old girl sentenced to 15 to 40 years

Ash Cooper, 18, pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree murder in the November 2022 death of 12-year-old Morgan Connors. Prosecutors said a motive was never revealed.

2 years ago

Andre Gay
NPR
Community

The U.S. prison population is rapidly graying. Prisons aren’t built for what’s coming

People behind bars tend to age faster than people on the outside. For that reason, "geriatric" in prison can mean someone as young as 50.

2 years ago

A housing unit in the west section of the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix
Courts & Law

Man freed from prison after 34 years after judge vacates conviction in 1990 murder

61-year-old Ronald Johnson was released from SCI-Phoenix on Monday night following a Philadelphia judge's decision and the prosecutor's move to dismiss charges.

2 years ago

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