PHILADELPHIA, PA — A federal jury convicted a Philadelphia correctional officer and his former supervisor of civil rights ...

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons and Ardella’s house, a nonprofit advocacy and services organization providing support to currently and formerly incarcerated women and children, reunited ...

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons has begun allowing correctional officers to wear hijabs while on duty, a policy change that advocates say marks an important step toward protecting religious fre ...

Inside Philadelphia prisons, the most anticipated visitor is a dog. Therapy dog programs are now built into prison life; they help staff manage tension and give inmates rare moments of emotional reset ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pennsylvania correctional institution at Rockview in Centre County is among four facilities recommended for closure. (Pa.

The former Black Panther member, who was convicted of the 1981 murder of a white Philadelphia police officer, says corrections officials have wrongly delayed the procedure. This July 25, 1995 file ...

A 45-year-old woman evidently hanged herself Thursday morning at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, according to a news release from the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, the second ...