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Pennsylvania prison officials say they are seeing positive results from changes to mail and visiting policies meant to address a slew of incidents in…
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Pennsylvania's statewide prison system remains locked down after dozens of employees at different locations became sick over the past month. Department of…
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Over 2,600 inmates at an 89-year-old Pennsylvania prison are being transferred to a new, long-delayed facility about a mile down the road.The first phase…
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In Pennsylvania, about 60 percent of parolees are rearrested or reenter the prison system within three years of release. About 20,000 people are released…
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Following legal suits arguing that the Pennsylvania's Congressional district map unfairly serves Republicans, the state Supreme Court has ordered new…
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Pennsylvania is being sued by five inmates for a blanket policy that keeps all death row prisoners in solitary confinement.The American Civil Liberties…
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Pennsylvania's governor is moving to consolidate parts of the state's prison and parole systems in hopes of saving money by eliminating duplicated…
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Pennsylvania Corrections Secretary John Wetzel began his criminal justice career in 1989, just as the commonwealth's prison population began to balloon.It…
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On a long-ago summer night, 16-year-old Giovanni Reid accepted a neighbor's invitation to an International House of Pancakes restaurant as thanks for…