Prison

A bipartisan group of state legislators and prison reform activists gathered downtown Friday in support of a bill to expand Pennsylvania’s compassionate release program.

Advocates for corrections officers and inmates are raising alarms about the lack of COVID-19 vaccines targeted to state prisons and county jails.Their…

Free electronic tablets have been distributed to those incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail as a way to connect them to the outside world through…

Starting Monday, certain Pennsylvania residents with state parole warrants can voluntarily surrender and most likely avoid getting sent back to prison for…

Matthew Keller got word on Thursday that he was losing his job. He wasn’t performing poorly at the Cold Choice salad bar in Lebanon, where he works food…

Pennsylvania policymakers announced a task force Monday that will take a broad look at the state's juvenile justice system in hopes of improving the…

The state House is moving a raft of bills aimed at making prison guards safer by, among other things, establishing longer sentences for inmates who…

Tom Schilk didn’t see the tourist he robbed fall from the third floor of his West Philadelphia apartment building.He was in another unit, two floors…

Carmen Riley bent over her unconscious son, looked into his eyes and knew. It didn't take a mother's intuition or a doctor's prognosis to figure out that…

Prosecutors and prison guards are urging a review of Pennsylvania's parole practices following the arrests of three parolees in unrelated homicides…