Feb. 17—An inmate at SCI Phoenix from Schuyllkill County must answer to charges in Montgomery County Court that he fatally beat another inmate during an altercation at the prison in November.

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Austin Shaw, 30, is in Schuylkill County Prison, unable to post $125,000 straight cash bail. Shaw was arranged March 20 in Magisterial District Judge Andrew Serina’s courtroom, Orwigsburg.

Rockview state prison is surrounded by nearly 57 hundred acres of state land, with SCI Benner next door. But what happens to the Rockview property if the prison is closed? “Rockview, that’s ...