Just as the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported the first drop in decades of average daily jail populations in large jurisdictions, the Philadelphia Prison System saw its number of inmates fall ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed an Ivy League researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of ...

In Philadelphia, more and more guilty pleas by defendants are being handled through a videoconferencing system, which the city courts and prisons plan to expand to streamline court cases, reduce ...