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 ...

More corrections officers should give incarcerated people more time outside their cells and reduce costly mandatory overtime for prison staff.

The state Department of Corrections is in the process of expanding a pilot housing program modeled after more humane prisons in Scandanavia to three additional prisons, the agency disclosed Thursday, ...

As budget hearings got underway last week, Pennsylvania state lawmakers questioned officials with the state Department of Corrections about why they deserve a budget increase, even after deciding to ...

Three inmates were found unresponsive over three days and died within a three-day span at separate Pennsylvania correctional facilities, according to officials. An inmate at the State Correctional ...