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

The Department of Corrections (DOC) did not answer any questions during the hearing on SCI Rockview’s proposed closure, but that did not stop elected officials ...

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

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 Superior Court in a ruling handed down Thursday upheld the conviction and state sentence imposed on a ...

The task of deciding whether a former SCI-Somerset inmate should be sentenced to death for murdering a prison sergeant is now ...

The recent creation of a defense fund for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ...

SOMERSET, Pa. – Whether state prison inmate Paul Jawon Kendrick will spend his future on death row for a prison sergeant’s ...

Another twist is being noted by the The New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association in its ongoing dispute with New York state and the Department of Corrections and ...

About two thirds of Texas’ prison inmates reside in facilities that are not fully air conditioned in housing areas, and indoor temperatures routinely top 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Credit ...

Green Bay Correctional Institution in Allouez, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee will hold a public hearing Friday at State Fair Park on Gov. Tony Evers proposed two-year ...

Eugene Rowles, 73 (Huntingdon County Prison) Eugene Charles Rowles, of Todd, was arrested after a girl, now 18, came forward April 1, about Rowles allegedly raping her starting when she was 14.