The board adjusts in an attempt to balance compliance with detention requests from federal immigration officials and the ...

The Department of Corrections also wants to shut down two state-run Community Corrections Centers, one of which is in Berks ...

Local officials are pleased that their efforts to shut down the Wernersville Community Corrections Center appear to have been ...

A former Berks County man who went to prison a decade ago for statutory sexual assaults when he was 21 is back in the county jail after a woman reported she was also sexually abused by him when ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) recently released a report detailing why it wants to close SCI Rockview and ...

Prison staff will reportedly be guaranteed job offers at their existing pay and classification at a nearby correctional ...

A 19-year-old man who was one of three suspects charged in the killing of a 19-year-old man in southeast Reading last spring is in Berks County Prison following his extradition from New York City.

Adams said. He is being held in Berks County prison after failing to post bail of $200,000.

These presentations have become an annual tradition for the commissioners to identify their areas of focus in a public forum.

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