Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in U.S. jails or prisons. By 2023, that number was roughly 186,000, according ...

Across Pennsylvania, an estimated 65,459 children have a parent in jail or prison. That’s according to a recent email inquiry to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Nationwide, nearly half of ...

(WHTM)– A Pennsylvania lawmaker is proposing legislation to prohibit state and local contracts with private prison facilities and corporations in Pennsylvania. State Representative Perry Warren (D-31) ...

Any personnel losses at the state level could be a boon for the Centre County Correctional Facility, which has long been ...

The Pennsylvania correctional institution at Rockview in Centre County is among four facilities recommended for closure. The closing of two Pennsylvania correctional facilities, SCI-Rockview in Centre ...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania state inmates are no longer being punished with the baked brown slabs known as food loaves. The Department of Corrections has stopped giving the food loaves to ...

Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life in a state prison. Oct. 9, 2012— -- As convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky was led away from the Centre County, Pa., court house today, ...

Two inmates died at separate Central Pennsylvania county prisons within days of each other, officials announced on Monday, ...

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(Pa. Department of Corrections photo) The closing of two Pennsylvania correctional facilities, SCI-Rockview in Centre County and the Quehanna Boot Camp in Clearfield County, is moving forward despite ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julie Poehlmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Across ...