Philadelphia Department of Prisons Chief Blanche Carney announced she is stepping down from the troubled department next month. Carney sent a letter to her staff that her last day will be April 5, ...

The Pennsylvania correctional institution at Rockview in Centre County is among four facilities recommended for closure. (Pa. Department of Corrections photo) The closing of two Pennsylvania ...

Two prisoners escaped a correctional center in Philadelphia, including a teen who was accused of killing another man outside the same facility more than two years ago, investigators said. Nasir Grant, ...

A 45-year-old woman evidently hanged herself Thursday morning at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, according to a news release from the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, the second ...

Gina Clark, whose daughter died in a Philadelphia jail just over a year ago, said she wants to make sure no one else suffers the same fate. "I don't want to see anyone else treated the way she was ...

The day after Philadelphia voters approved a ballot measure to increase oversight over the city’s jail system, a former deputy commissioner filed a lawsuit accusing the previous leader of the ...

Two men were sentenced to decades in prison in connection with the 2022 arson death of a Philadelphia firefighter.

A Delaware County man who admitted to illegally purchasing guns later used in violent crimes in Philadelphia has been ...