-
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) announced Thursday that State Correctional Institution Pittsburgh will shut down by June 30, 2017.As the…
-
It’s been three weeks since the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) announced five prisons were being considered for closure: State Correctional…
-
It's possible that Bret Grote gets more mail from state prison inmates than anyone else in Pittsburgh.As the co-founder and legal director of the…
-
Pennsylvania corrections officials are telling state senators they can close two prisons without jeopardizing the security of staff, inmates or the…
-
In a surprise announcement last week, the state said it would close two of its prisons.And while lawmakers and local leaders have begun discussing how the…
-
Federal prosecutors say an inmate's killing of a guard at a federal prison in Pennsylvania was a calculated slaying that saw the suspect pause to chew a…
-
Local courts that jail poor defendants because they can't afford to pay bail are unlawfully discriminating against the poor, federal attorneys say in a…
-
Corrections officers at federal prisons are not permitted to carry weapons in cell blocks. But that would change if President Obama signs the Eric…
-
A new study designed to reduce crime and the size of Pennsylvania's prison population is about to get underway.Gov. Tom Wolf and other government…
-
The state Senate is lining up a plan to restore state prison funding vetoed by Governor Tom Wolf late last year, in an attempt to clean up some of the…