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 ...

George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the U.S., has died. Banks, 83, died Sunday afternoon at Phoenix ...

A man wanted in connection with the deadly shooting of a teenager this summer in Wilkinsburg was arrested in Miami, ...

As Illinois prison workers testify about the benefits of electronic mail scanning, Illinois Department of Corrections ...

He fatally shot 13 people in Pennsylvania in September 1982 in what was then one of the nation’s worst mass shootings. Five of the victims were his own children.

A Wilkinsburg man wanted for murder in connection with a fatal shooting in the borough was apprehended in Florida, federal ...

Inmates released from SCI Waymart have a lower recidivism rate than average in PA. The prison recently celebrated those ...

A 27-year-old Canadian man, already sentenced to federal prison for planning a mass casualty terroristic attack in New York ...

Luzerne County voters selected four Democrats and one Republican for county council Tuesday, switching the 11-member legislative body to a Democratic majority, according to <a href=" ...