An inmate at SCI Smithfield was found unresponsive Friday and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. According to Kenneth Shea, acting superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at ...

The murder trial is underway for a state prison inmate at SCI Phoenix in Montgomery County, accused of beating and choking ...

Officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections say a 36-year-old inmate has died after being found unresponsive in ...

On Wednesday, October 29, John Sawtelle, superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Albion, reported that a 25-year-old inmate, Andy Ortiz was found unresponsive in his cell. Staff ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

An inmate at State Correctional Institution at Dallas will face assault charges after being found with a makeshift weapon following a fight with another prisoner, state police said. Jeremy Cruz, 45, ...

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges related to buying stolen human remains from a Berks County man and others. Jeremy Pauley, 43, of Thompson, Susquehanna County, ...

When a person incarcerated at the federal detention center in Philadelphia is placed on suicide watch, they are assigned to the “dry cells” in the special housing unit to be monitored by guards. It’s ...

PHOENIX — A man who opened fire on a construction crew at a Phoenix apartment complex three years ago, killing one worker, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison, authorities announced Friday. Armed ...

On Monday, March 6, the U.S. Supreme Court left in place an opinion by Pennsylvania’s highest court — which overturned Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction — ultimately rejecting a bid from PA ...

SKIPPACK — A 56-year-old inmate died in his cell at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix. Charles Hensley, deputy superintendent of SCI Phoenix, reported that inmate Gerald Rodarmel was found ...

CONNEAUT, Pa (WJET/WFXP)– State police have now formally charged the SCI Albion inmate who they said was responsible for strangling his cellmate to death back in late October. According to court ...