Spotlight PA is an independent ... But lawmakers questioned how such a substantial increase was needed after the prison system promised savings following the closure of two facilities in 2017 ...

Not every facility has faced the same fate. One became a popular museum, while others have been sold or are set for costly ...

Secretary of Corrections Laurel Harry said Monday that her department is planning to grow the program from the current unit ...

CENTRE COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — The head of the state prison system says they want to hear from the public in response to the announcement that they may close the Rockview state prison and the ...

(WHTM) – 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 prison ...

The coronavirus hit Pennsylvania state prisons in late March 2020, sending the system’s 23 prisons into quarantine. Extreme restrictions on movement kept people in cells and largely uninfected ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections noted in an email to WTAJ that Turner has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the investigation. The Department of Corrections added that ...

Unionized federal corrections officers, including those in central Pennsylvania, on the advice of their leaders, have not provided the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with requested ...

Inmate Michael Burham was captured by police in a wooded area in Warren County on Saturday, nine days after escaping from a Pennsylvania prison Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE ...