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

Previously, detainees would be held up to four hours until an ICE official could retrieve them. The new policy will extend ...

A Robeson Township man faces criminal charges after investigators said he was caught in an underage prostitution sting ...

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

A Mississippi man has been arrested and charged with attempted homicide in the attack of another man with two rubber mallets at a Berks County Walmart on Friday. Demarco Hare, 33, of Hattiesburg was ...

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

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

The recommendation by Gov. Shapiro's administration comes amid longer-term national trends of shrinking prison populations.

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 ...

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 ...

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