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A former employee at State Correctional Institution/Frackville has been charged with institutional sexual assault after she allegedly pursued an intimate relationship with an inmate.

The prosecution rested its case against an allegedly corrupt guard at State Correctional Institution at Dallas on Wednesday after playing a video recording of an interview in which he told

A prisoner who admitted murdering another inmate at State Correctional Institution at Dallas took the stand Tuesday and testified that he began fighting at the behest of a corrupt guard

Williamsport, Pa. — A judge credited a local defense lawyer after his client received a light sentence for a vicious assault that occurred earlier this year.

Kay Coles James has stepped down as Secretary of the Commonwealth, and Harold W. Clarke is retiring as director of the state’s prison system. The departure of the two senior Black state officials will usher in new leadership at several agencies in Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin’s administration.

Another six tests came back positive for Legionella in Lancaster County Prison's water system after an inmate who was temporarily housed there tested positive.

While just seven members remain of a beloved feral cat colony that has laid claim to an abandoned Pennsylvania prison since its heyday, local animal advocates…

Three people, including one inmate, attempted to sneak drugs into State Correctional Institution at Frackville in March after making arrangements in a coded language recorded on prison phone calls, according

Roles were flipped and those who work in the justice system were suddenly on the “other side of the law” as they participated in a reentry simulation at the

Col. Christopher L. Paris, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, arrived Saturday at Hershey Medical Center as the helicopter transporting a trooper struck by gunfire landed.