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Liberty County Sheriff Bobby Rader congratulated and spoke to the fifth graduating class of Correctional Officers that Training Division Supervisor, Cpl. Ann Marie Mitchell has put through an informational crammed class over a required three week training academy class. These new Correctional Officers will assume their positions within the confines of the Liberty County Jail shortly with two of the graduates being veteran Correctional Officers with State Correctional facilities. A few of the ma...

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 2:51pm -- tim The University of Vermont Firestone Medical Research Building is under construction. PC Construction is the general contractor. Designed by Black River Design, Architects in collaboration with Payette. Courtesy Photo. by Bruce Edwards, Vermont Business Magazine How tough was last year for some of the state’s commercial contractors? For PC Construction, one of the largest, it was a year when the company took a significant hit – the direct result of the now ye...

There is help for people suffering addictions in Pennsylvania | Opinion Updated 9:30 AM; By Jennifer Smith According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there were 5,377 fatal overdoses in Pennsylvania at the height of the opioid overdose crisis in 2017. Those Pennsylvanians represent our loved ones and neighbors – people who battled substance use disorder predominately cast in the shadows due to stigma and lack of resources to live a full, healthy life in recovery. That is why on Jan...

America’s oldest juvenile lifer has been released from prison after spending 68 years behind the bars.

State Correctional Institute/Dallas is experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak with 769 active cases among inmates and 52 cases among employees, state Department of Corrections Press Secretary Maria Bivens said. The department’s COVID-19 dashboard, however, contradicts the data provided by Bivens. According to the dashboard, SCI/Dallas has 1,463 active positive cases among inmates and seven among staff. Bivens did not provide an explanation for the discrepancy by press time Friday. Nine inmates a...

POTTSVILLE — Some Schuylkill County prisoners will continue to serve their sentences elsewhere, as the commissioners on Wednesday approved an agreement to send inmates to Columbia County in 2021. “They’re one of the most active counties,” county solicitor Alvin B. Marshall said of Columbia and housing prisoners from elsewhere. The one-year pact is one of several the county has to relieve overcrowding at Schuylkill County Prison, President Judge William E. Baldwin said. At th...