Concerned about the impact the closures of SCI Rockview and Quehanna Boot Camp will have on the region, state Rep. Paul Takac will host several community forums to gain input from area residents on ...

A contract to reopen a privately-owned Newark detention center may be the first in a wave of reopenings of shuttered ...

You’ll have five chances in about the next 40 days to tell state Rep. Paul Takac directly how it would affect you.

Jallen McConnie, 15, was killed in an apartment in NYCHA’s Wise Towers after being tortured by three of his adult cousins, prosecutors say.

Unfurling a scroll of “1,000 senior advisors” and touting a campaign bank balance of $108,000, Boulder County Commissioner ...

It also sought data about illegal immigrants, as to date, in various detention camps/correctional homes after being convicted and having undergone the entire sentence under the Foreigners Act. "We ...

Area officials are continuing their efforts to keep two state-run facilities open after the Department of Corrections ...

A Shinglehouse woman was sentenced recently in McKean County Court to spend at least a year in state prison for conspiring to deliver cocaine.

The Quehanna Boot Camp, located in Clearfield County, opened in 1992 as the first military-motivational boot camp in Pennsylvania for both men and women. Since that time, many people faced ...

Many states, particularly Republican-led ones, are feeling pressure to align their legislative priorities with the ...

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The Progress Community Corrections Center (CCC) in Waynesburg, a facility designed to assist inmates with their reentry into society, is among four state facilities being slated for closure. A state ...