The Berks County Prison Board has adjusted one of its policies in an attempt to balance compliance with detention requests from federal immigration officials and the rights of those being detained.

A Robeson Township man faces criminal charges after investigators said he was caught in an underage prostitution sting conducted by the Berks County Human Trafficking Task Force.

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

Munet, 29, is accused of sexually assaulting the victims, ages 12 and 14, and placing a hidden camera in their bathroom, authorities claimed.

A former Berks County Prison inmate has been sentenced to prison for plotting to have a county detective murdered in 2018. Fitzgerald Daliot-Rios, 35, formerly of Reading, was sentenced Friday by ...

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

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 75-year-old defendant had entered a no-contest plea then failed to show for his February 2024 sentencing hearing.

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

It appears the state prison in Mercer County dodged a bullet as the state’s Department of Corrections on Monday recommended ...

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 she ...