Garrett Reid's Troubled History With Drugs
Garrett Reid's drug problems were well documented in Montgomery County where his legal problems started in early 2007.
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Garrett Reid's drug problems were well documented in Montgomery County where his legal problems started in early 2007.
Eight young Philadelphians recently arrested -- a new crop of nonviolent drug offenders -- are part of the first class of a new program that offers educational help, job training and social services support, to avoid prison.
Eastern State Penitentiary hosts special Valentine's Day guided tours examining the love stories of this famous prison.
How to reduce the prison population in Pennsylvania? State corrections officials say part of the answer lies in streamlining the process by which inmates are paroled.
Gov. Chris Christie said New Jersey's 15-year-old drug court program will be expanded as part of a plan to ease inmates' transitions back to broader society and to get help for addicts who are involved in many crimes.
A distracted tug boat pilot who sunk a tour boat in Philadelphia will be sentenced Tuesday in the deaths of two Hungarian students.
A Delaware pediatrician convicted of abusing scores of young patients over more than a decade will spend the rest of his life in prison.
A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in connection with the deaths of five newborns whose skeletal remains were found at her home.
It makes both dollars and sense: a new study by the Pew Charitable Trust finds that Philadelphia taxpayers are benefiting from a drop in the city's massive prison population.
A new study says Philadelphia's jail population decreased dramatically last year, mainly because of new procedures designed to make the criminal justice system more efficient.
Former inmates and guards gathered at Eastern State Penitentiary Sunday to reminisce about the days when the prison was anything but a tourist attraction.
A Montgomery County man will spend at least three-and-a-half years behind bars in state prison for electronically stalking his former girlfriend after they broke up and prosecutors say he continued to harass the woman even after he was arrested.
Delaware State Police are searching for in inmate who managed to escape the Webb Correctional Facility in Wilmington Sunday afternoon.
Officials say inmates at a Pennsylvania prison received drugs from the outside hidden beneath the postage stamps on their mail.
A former La Salle University administrator has been sentenced to about four-and-a-half to nine years in prison for stealing over $5 million from the university over many years.
Investigators are seeking the cause of a fire that damaged a two-story maintenance building at a state prison in southern New Jersey this weekend.
Montgomery County authorities say a cell phone placed behind the walls of the county prison led them to a convicted felon who is now charged in connection with a Norristown murder in October.
Governor Rendell has commuted life sentences for three Philadelphia men convicted of murder in the 1970's.
