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Controversy is growing over Mayor Nutter's plan to purchase land in the Northeast, potentially for a new prison. In the face of that, he seems to be trying to distance himself from the idea of a new jail house.
A central Pennsylvania horse trainer has been sentenced to 6 months in prison for rigging races by drugging up his rides.
A man on the street was wounded, but fortunately no children were hurt.
Rich Zeoli talked to crime reporter Josh Kovensky on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT about paying prisoners minimum wage for the work they do while incarcerated.
A bill now under senate consideration would reduce the length of time someone is kept in isolation and require corrections officials to develop alternatives.
Acting State Comptroller Marc Larkins took a look at overtime records between 2010 and 2012.
A fire that ripped through a nearly 140-year-old central Pennsylvania prison has reignited.
Pennsylvania prison officials are promising to provide specialized treatment for mentally ill inmates as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by advocates for disabled.
Teresa Giudice entered the facility about 90 miles north of New York City on Monday, a spokesman for the Federal Correctional Institution confirmed.
Jayson Werth was sentenced to ten days in jail on Friday.
Nevada and Pennsylvania authorities identified the dead man on Tuesday as Rip Alan Swartz, 46.
A female prison guard trainee has been charged by the state Department of Corrections with having sex with an inmate — in the chapel of a central Pennsylvania prison.
Chopper 3 over the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center late Monday night.
A former cohort of drug kingpin and convicted murderer Kaboni Savage has been given a lengthy prison term.
Officials say Caldera strangled another inmate while in prison at the U.S. Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa. back in May 2010.
Capone was an inmate in Philadelphia' Eastern State Penitentiary for eight months during 1929-1930 – his first stint in prison.
A Philadelphia man who blackmailed a New Jersey man who responded to his online ad seeking sex is going to prison.
A federal judge won't recommend that prison officials allow "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice to serve most of her prison sentence in a halfway house.
"Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice is petitioning to serve most of her federal prison sentence in a halfway house.
I bet if we told you to think of something that's both terrifying and vintage, creepy dolls and your parents' prom pictures would be the first two things to pop into mind. But, what if we told you about something older and even more terrifying than those vintage pictures? Just imagine one of the first penitentiaries in the country, where prisoners were held in solitary confinement for their entire stay, getting turned into a haunted house for Halloween (told ya there was something scarier than seeing your mom with a mullet).
Eastern State Penitentiary, which opened nearly 200 years ago, is in line for a $500,000 state grant to help with its preservation.
A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to 232 months in prison for aggravated identity theft, bank fraud, access device fraud, counterfeit currency fraud and conspiracy.
District Attorney Seth Williams and other officials held a press conference to bring attention to a bill sitting in the state House and Senate.
A 38-year-old Germantown man has been sentenced to 37-and-half to 65 years in prison for a 1998 gunpoint rape in North Philadelphia.
The man accused of killing his caseworker and causing a Delaware County medical center to be put on lockdown is out of the hospital and in prison.
