The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections says a DOC steering committee report proposes closing SCI Rockview in Centre ...

Rockview state prison is slated for closure under a plan unveiled Monday by Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration, a proposal ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on Monday the confirmation of four proposed facility closures.

If fully implemented, the closures are expected to save the commonwealth $10 million in the upcoming fiscal year, with ...

Contraband in prison and the costs of enforcing the rules is costing the Bureau of Prisons millions. A better solution may be pushing more people into community custody.

Fears are growing that the offshore U.S. detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba are an ominous sign for what President ...

Several stories published in the Times Leader Evening News and the Wilkes-Barre Record beginning Feb. 13, 1945, and throughout the month announced Mr. Alan B. Cutting and his wife, Mary, of Kingston ...

Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 ...

“Trump is only the most recent president to seek to use Guantánamo as a legal black hole to try to get away with ...

In the 1990s, the U.S. used Guantánamo Bay to hold Haitian and Cuban immigrants intercepted at sea. The Trump administration is now sending to Guantánamo people who were arrested on U.S. soil. That ...

The Bureau of Prisons confirmed it is detaining some immigrants arrested under Trump’s latest enforcement efforts, reviving a ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.