A 57-year-old man jailed in Pennsylvania mutilated a civilian during the civil wars that ravaged the Balkans in the 90s, ...

It should be pretty self explanatory what most, if not all, federal prison employees — including those at facilities in ...

The penal systems in Norway, Sweden and Denmark are internationally known for their focus on rehabilitation and reintegration ...

On This Week in Pennsylvania, host Dennis Owens talks to State Rep. Paul Takac (D-Centre), whose district covers Penn State University’s main campus and SCI Rockview, a state ...

A Jeannette man was ordered Tuesday to serve up to up to 52 months in prison for the possession and dissemination of child ...

WILLIAMSPORT — A Northumberland County man is facing a mandatory minimum 15-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to a federal child pornography charge. Scott Eric Snyder, 53, admitted ...

Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people who shared the things about prison that most people don't realize. The responses were honest, sobering, and, at times, completely ...

The Little Scandinavia program at the SCI Chester Correctional Facility in Chester has been so successful, one state ...

Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times Supported by By Alexandra Berzon Allison McCann and Hamed Aleaziz Damon Hininger, the chief executive of CoreCivic, which operates private prisons and ...

A former political candidate in South Whitehall has been sentenced to up to five decades in state prison. The sentencing comes after 53-year-old Matthew C. Schutter pleaded guilty Tuesday to ...

Kathy Hochul has deployed just under 7,000 National Guard soldiers to guard duty in 41 of the state's 42 prison facilities with no firm end date in sight, a situation some close to the situation ...