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Governor Tom Wolf decided to shutter the state prison in 2017, in part because of its “prime real estate.”

Gaps in medical resources across rural Pennsylvania can be challenging, even for nursing school recruiters hoping to ultimately fill the local…

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…

Pennsylvania voters chose Republican and Democrat nominees for U.S Senate, 18 seats in the U.S. House, governor and lieutenant governor, plus half the…

Details of Pittsburgh’s Amazon headquarters proposal won’t be released to the public because the city signed non-disclosure agreements with private…

Redevelopment of the 24 acres on which sits the now closed SCI Pittsburgh has not been put on hold while other developments proceed, according to…

The process of closing a massive state prison complex in Pittsburgh has made progress in the weeks since it was announced, including the transfer of some…

It’s been less than two weeks since the Wolf administration announced that the 136-year old Pittsburgh state prison would shut down by June 30. But…

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) announced Thursday that State Correctional Institution Pittsburgh will shut down by June 30, 2017.As the…

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