Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

YESPhilly Accelerated High School serves many students who’ve grown up around poverty and crime. Dean Art Green tries to keep them safe and show them a brighter future.

A federal judge is weighing whether the government can force the University of Pennsylvania to hand over detailed employee information in an antisemitism investigation. The issue in ...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the House Oversight Committee during roughly six hours of testimony Thursday ...

I went to federal prison for contempt of Congress. My detractors say I acted above the law. My supporters say I’m the poster child for a weaponized justice system. I won’t relitigate that here. What ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Philadelphia man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing two teenagers outside of a Reading convenience store.

A Philadelphia man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing two teenagers outside of a Reading convenience store. Nyjee Jefferson, 30, was sentenced Friday by Berks County Judge Thomas ...

The Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay $600,000 to the father of a incarcerated man who died 11 days after attempting to hang himself at SCI Camp Hill in 2019. Joseph McQuaid sued the ...

In this Feb. 27, 2015 photo, elderly inmates stand in line for their breakfast against a wall decorated with religious icons and art work created by the inmates at Lurigancho men’s prison in Lima, ...

In September, Brenda Kay Spitzbarth traveled more than two hours from her home in Maryville to Lebanon to attend a town hall event focused on prison reform in Tennessee. During the Q&A portion of the ...

A key Mississippi lawmaker has passed a major hurdle on a bill that calls for tougher oversight of deaths inside the state’s notorious prisons, following an investigation by The Marshall Project - ...