March 16, 2023 | 11:42 AM
tag | prison
February 23, 2023 | 1:41 PM
Deaths in custody are a crisis, but data on them is a black hole, a new report says
November 28, 2022 | 4:40 PM
Dauphin County hired ‘expert’ to review jail deaths, but won’t release report
November 14, 2022 | 3:50 PM
Jails fail to accommodate people with mental illness. In some cases, it’s a civil rights violation.
Conditions in some corrections facilities are a a moral failure that also costs taxpayers millions.
October 12, 2022 | 1:28 PM
Pennsylvania prisoners are giving their own money to families impacted by gun violence
A group of Pennsylvania prisoners, many of them serving life sentences for gun crimes, is pooling together their own funds to help Philadelphia families who lose a child to gun violence.
October 12, 2022 | 5:00 AM
In Pa. county jails, people with mental illness are routinely met with pepper spray and stun guns
A WITF investigation finds that Pennsylvania county corrections officers use physical force on people who may be unable to comply with orders due to a mental health condition.
October 7, 2022 | 5:09 AM
Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates from the 1950s through the 1970s
The city allowed University of Pennsylvania researcher Dr. Albert Kligman to conduct the dermatological, biochemical and pharmaceutical experiments.
