The State Correctional Institution at Fayette, a Pennsylvania prison, is being sued over allegedly inhumane conditions in solitary confinement.

The prison guard in Pennsylvania who missed the escape of Danelo Cavalcante on Aug. 31 has been fired, a county spokesperson said on Friday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Solitary confinement conditions in a Pennsylvania state prison are unconstitutional, worsening and creating mental illness in those held there, according to a federal ...

DOJ watchdog finds host of problems at Lewisburg, Pa., prison Lewisburg federal prison, a facility located in central Pennsylvania where thousands of inmates often pass through on their way to ...

Solitary confinement conditions in a Pennsylvania state prison are unconstitutional, worsening and creating mental illness in those held there, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Pennsylvania will no longer consider incarcerated people to be "residents" in the predominantly white, rural counties where state prisons are located.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Inmates in Pennsylvania state prisons will be counted in their home districts and not where their prisons are located after a divided vote Tuesday by the five-member panel ...

November 07, 2015 Pennsylvania awarded $1M federal grant for prison education system Improved Reentry Education a unique award among nine grants distributed nationwide ...

Atif Malik is serving an eight-year prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution at Loretto in Cambria County for a nonviolent crime. In April, he filed his own motion seeking ...

Federal prison guard slain at Pennsylvania facility. February 26, 2013. This undated family photo provided by Lauren Williams shows Canaan federal penitentiary correctional officer Eric Williams.

PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) — Two Pennsylvania men were sentenced in federal court on separate charges relating to drug trafficking and drug possession. Jaquay Holliday, 39, of Pittsburgh, pleaded ...

A group of five Pennsylvania inmates filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, over the solitary confinement conditions in a state prison, saying the conditions are unconstitutional ...