Confronted by unified opposition, top officials from the state Department of Corrections heard calls from a bipartisan ...

A jury on Thursday recommended the death penalty for an SCI Somerset inmate convicted of the 2018 homicide of a prison guard.

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ... potential closure of the SCI Rockview, a decision opposers say could impact thousands of people throughout the region. State elected officials ...

A Pittsburgh man already serving a life sentence for the 2014 murder of a man in Pittsburgh faces the death penalty in the ...

The Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee in Centre County held a hearing Monday on the impact of prison closures.

A prosecutor in California blasted the state's $239 million taxpayer-funded project to build a prison rehabilitation center in the Bay Area, arguing that it's another example of politicians ...

A jury on Thursday recommended the death penalty for an SCI Somerset inmate convicted of the 2018 homicide of a prison guard ... to Baserman's death. The state police affidavit said at the ...

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At the time, the state’s prisons were in a state of crisis caused by the walkout of thousands of prison personnel during an unauthorized 22-day strike that had forced the governor to call in the ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Ten New York prison guards were charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old prison inmate, including two charged with murder. It's the second time ...