Overdose Deaths In State Prisons Have Risen 600% Since 2001
NPR: Beth Schwartzapfel & Jimmy Jenkins - July 15, 2021 Prisons and jails in the United States have been increasingly deadly places in...
Inside-Out College Classes This Fall for Justice Involved People
Inside Out provides college classes in prisons and jails involving campus-based students and incarcerated students learning together....
‘More Harm Than Good’: Most People in Pennsylvania Prisons Are Vaxxed, But Isolation Rules Remain
Note: PRC encourages the use of person first language whenever possible in referring to people with justice involvement, and people in...
Join Inside Out for College Classes Fall 2021
Inside Out provides college classes in prisons and jails involving campus-based students and incarcerated students learning together....
In-Person Visitation To Resume At State Correctional Institutions
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) Secretary John Wetzel announced that in-person visitation will be phased in at select DOC...
Why it's Dangerous that Workers in PA Prisons, COVID-19 Hot Spots, Aren’t Getting Vaccinated
Spotlight PA: Joseph Darius Jaafari - April 25, 2021 A delayed upgrade to the state Department of Corrections’ dashboard on covid-19...
Opinion: Biden Administration needs to Walk the Walk on Second Chances
USA Today: Erica Zunkel and James Zeigler - May 1, 2021 President Joe Biden declared April Second Chance Month, sending a strong signal...
After Supreme Court Decision, John Pace of YSRP Discusses What A 2nd Chance Meant to Him
NPR: Courtney Dorning, Connor Donevan, Ari Shapiro - April 22, 2021 The Supreme Court just made it easier to sentence juveniles to life...
Opinion: Prisons Need Better Vaccine Education for People in Prison
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The U.S. Spends Billions to Lock People Up, But Very Little to Help Them Once They’re Released
PBS News Hour: Casey Kuhn - April 7, 2021 The U.S. spends $81 billion a year on mass incarceration, according to the Bureau of Justice...