Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp ...

If fully implemented, the closures are expected to save the commonwealth $10 million in the upcoming fiscal year, with ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that his administration projects would save Pennsylvania more than $110 million ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would become a months-long hunger strike.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal includes a plan to close two State Correctional Institutions and two ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections has fired two leading health care managers who oversaw a division responsible for the ...

A Nigerian man has been extradited to the US to face charges in the “sextortion” of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide ...

Convicted murderer Todd Hyung-Rae Tarselli, who previously won a re-sentencing hearing due to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ...

An Altoona man’s incarceration time for drug-trafficking and firearm offenses has been reduced to 13.5 to 30 years — from a sentence of 18 to 39 years — through a negotiated plea addressing an error ...

A Sussex County traffic stop turned into DUI, drug and stolen gun charges for a Wilmington man over the weekend.

An Erie man who had been serving a three-year sentence in the State Correctional Institution at Pine Grove in White Township for a felony firearms count will be spending up to two more years in a ...