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 ...

HARRISBURG, PA — The walls of Pennsylvania’s state prisons proved less isolating in 2025, as the Department of Corrections recorded more than one million visits between incarcerated people and their ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) has one of the highest recidivism rates in the nation. That’s why its decision to close the Quehanna Boot Camp last month, the state prison with the ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After waiting more than four decades to clear his name in a friend’s 1980 killing, Subramanyam Vedam was set to walk free from a Pennsylvania prison this month. Vedam and Thomas ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...