WILLIAMSPORT — The state Department of Corrections and the superintendent of the Muncy prison are accused in a federal civil ...

POCOPSON TWP., Pa. - The Chester County District Attorney's Office announced that an attempted prison escape has been thwarted. Authorities say this afternoon, an inmate attempted to escape from ...

Marie Scott had been incarcerated since 1973 for felony murder. Gov. Josh Shapiro commuted her life sentence in June.

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 ...

EIGHT. SARAH, THANK YOU. NEW TONIGHT WARDENS AT TWO DIFFERENT SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY PRISONS ARE REPORTING DEATHS OF INMATES AT CUMBERLAND COUNTY. SPOKESPERSON SAYS 53 YEAR-OLD MELISSA TRAYER WAS FOUND ...

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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 ...

The first sentence handed down under a Pennsylvania law criminalizing the use of artificial intelligence to create sexual images of children was as harsh as a Lehigh County judge could make it, and ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

Over a week after their emergency transfer from a Baltimore jail, women awaiting trial at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women remained held in restrictive housing. “Some of these ladies ...

New filings in an ongoing lawsuit against officials at the women’s prison in Lusk point to a 2023 federal audit that found surveillance camera blind spots within the facility and an incomplete ...