Three inmates were found unresponsive over three days and died within a three-day span at separate Pennsylvania correctional ...

Former Allegheny County Chief Public Defender Matt Dugan, who was last publicly seen campaigning against District Attorney Steve Zappala in 2023, has a new role. He’ll be the first Western ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four ...

The Pennsylvania Prison Society has named Matt Dugan, a former chief public defender for Allegheny County, as its first ...

A male boot camp platoon marches down the hall at Quehanna Boot Camp in this file photo. Abby Drey [email protected] The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) has one of the highest ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) has one of the highest recidivism rates in the nation. That’s why its decision to close the Quehanna Boot Camp last month, the state prison with the ...

An investigation is ongoing.

Gov. Jerry Brown has named a psychologist who ran Pennsylvania's prisons as the new director of California's prisons. Jeffrey Beard ran Pennsylvania's prisons from 2001 to 2010 and will take one of ...

The prisoner who is now the subject of a massive manhunt after escaping from a Pennsylvania prison late last month had killed his ex-girlfriend in a brutal 2021 stabbing in front of her two young ...