The current Council, is unusually inexperienced, with 12 of 17 members serving less than two terms, and is legislating at the ...

The funding represents the most robust investment the city has made for celebrations of America's 250th anniversary next year ...

The beating of Robert Brooks by multiple officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in December was caught on body cameras, ...

A City Council committee approved $17 million for the Philadelphia 250 celebration amid signs that the federal government is ...

The United States Postal Service announced a temporary suspension of "international package acceptance of inbound parcels ...

Department of Corrections Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News) The city’s filing calls for similar powers and claims giving Maginley-Liddie the dual ...

Mandela’s words were ringing in my head when I served as a resource person on the issue of jail decongestion at a forum sponsored by the Supreme Court as part of the Philippine Open Government ...

This is a fifth attempt for Leon A. King, II — who was Philadelphia’s first openly LGBTQ+ commissioner when he led the Department of Prisons — to seek a spot on the bench of the city’s Court of Common ...

The Allahabad High Court has expressed concern for children living in prisons with their incarcerated parents, directing the UP government to create a structured programme for these children's ...

In August 2024, former DPW Commissioner Jason Golub stepped down from his role to pursue a job with the State Department of Corrections. This left the City Council divided on how to best move ...

Last year, Pitts, a former Philadelphia homicide detective, was found guilty of violently coercing the false confession of a man who spent more than a decade in prison for a murder he did not commit.