HARRISBURG, PA — Dozens of inmates in Pennsylvania prisons have been charged in connection with a large-scale COVID unemployment scam, Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced this week. More than 50 ...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (WJAC) — SCI Benner Township is locked down Monday after an incident between inmates happened over the weekend, according to officials. Officials say the incident happened Saturday ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — 20 inmates and accomplices, including multiple people from Central Pennsylvania, are facing charges after it was found groups organized to illegally obtain $300,000 in unemployment ...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- An inmate at SCI Benner has filed a petition for relief against the Department of Corrections mandate that eliminated all Timberland and Rocky boots from state prisons. Inmate ...

But ask many residents, and that same sense of community optimism is missing after learning of the state’s planned closure of the State Correctional Institution at Cresson. State officials in ...

Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel announced that the agency will replace two older state prisons by opening the newly-constructed State Correctional Institution at Benner Township – a ...

BELLEFONTE — Corrections Secretary John Wetzel has announced that Morris L. Houser has been appointed superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Benner Township. Houser replaces Robert ...

PALMYRA, Pa. — A 21-year-old Lebanon man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old child, according to Palmyra Police. Preston Henry Lareau, formerly of Lebanon and currently an inmate at ...

The state Department of Corrections has opened its newest prison with a ceremony at the State Correctional Institution-Benner in central Pennsylvania.Photos: The facts of Pa. prison lifeThe $200 ...

The state inmate accused of attacking prison guards with a shovel was in court Wednesday — at least for a few minutes. Derrick Houdershield, 26, was charged with six counts of aggravated assault, two ...

GREENSBURG (KDKA) -- A busload of more than 40 prison employees and their families went to Harrisburg Tuesday for a hearing regarding the closing of SCI Greensburg. The prison is one of two, along ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA (WPMT) — 20 inmates and accomplices, including multiple people from Central Pennsylvania, are facing charges after it was found groups organized to illegally obtain $300,000 in ...