PHILADELPHIA -- Pope Francis will have a nice place to sit when he meets with Philadelphia prisoners next month. Inmates in the city's correctional system have been working for the past couple of ...

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons and Ardella’s house, a nonprofit advocacy and services organization providing support to currently and formerly incarcerated women and children, reunited ...

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 ...