Families plead for better Alabama prison conditions: 'We're asking for basic human rights'

Family members of state inmates wore red T-shirts with the words “Alabama Dept. of Corruptions” to the State House on ...

Dauphin County Prison board to consider limiting ICE cooperation

Dauphin County’s practice is to coordinate with ICE if presented with a civil detainer and to hold people set for release ...

Bureau Of Prisons’ Administrative Remedy Process Questioned

The Bureau of Prisons has an outdated and very manual process. One study says that is resulting in lax medical care.

York County Prison inmate death was a homicide, investigators say

State police are investigating a recent York County Prison death as an "inmate-committed homicide" but have not yet announced ...

Two accused of attempting to use drone to drop contraband into federal prison in Pa.

WILLIAMSPORT — A man and a woman are accused of attempting to use a drone to drop items to an inmate at the Allenwood Federal ...
Altoona Mirror

Commissioners await environmental reports on proposed site for new Blair County Prison

Blair County commissioners said Thursday that they’re awaiting environmental reports on a proposed site outside Duncansville for construction of a new county prison. While the commissioners office, in ...
WHYY

Women lifers in Pennsylvania’s prisons are getting old, and dying

Women Lifers at Muncy Prison” investigates the crisis of aging prisoners in Pennsylvania. Caption: The podcast “Dying on the Inside: Women Lifers at Muncy Prison” investigates the health issues of ...