From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): Posted at http://pahealthaccess.org/7238/ Prison, while not the ideal venue, can often be the first entry point into the healthcare system for someone with a substance use disorder or mental health issue. Nationally, and … Continued
From Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (http://www.pa-abolitionists.org/): In a unanimous opinion, the Delaware Supreme Court has decided that the state’s death penalty laws violate the Sixth Amendment. The court was responding to a U.S. Supreme Court decision from … Continued
The Department of Corrections has established many committees and subcommittees to review its use of administrative segregation in an effort to reduce the use WHILE also reducing prison violence. Here is an article describing an effort in the Somerset facility. Published in the PittsburghTribune Review (07/04/2016) Prisons to follow discipline model set by … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-07-21/juvenile-justice/a-view-from-solitary-during-the-dnc/a53100-1 July 21, 2016 – Mary Kuhlman, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window PHILADELPHIA – A time out, protective custody and segregation are all terms used to describe solitary confinement – a practice experienced by … Continued
From the National Council of Churches (http://www.ncccusa.org): WASHINGTON, DC: Faith leaders from across the country converged today on the grounds of the US Capitol to pray for victims and families of the Orlando shooting and to pray that another issue … Continued
From the National Council of Churches (http://www.ncccusa.org): Recently senators from both sides of the aisle stood together as they announced new enhancements to the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. The changes are designed to broaden even further the bi-partisan support this … Continued
It is estimated that 80,000 to 100,000 incarcerated persons, disproportionately adults and youth of color, are held in conditions of solitary confinement nationwide on any given day. That number does not include people in local jails, juvenile facilities, or in … Continued
For nearly 20 years, we’ve been teaching the kiddos here in Kensington that you do not return violence with violence. You do not fight fire with fire. We’ve insisted that Jesus teaches us a way to interact with evil without … Continued
From the National Council of Churches (http://www.ncccusa.org): There is no doubt that opiate addiction has reached crisis levels in this country. But just trying to incarcerate our way out of the problem is not going to work. However, this is … Continued
From Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (http://www.pa-abolitionists.org/): Please act right now to help people who have been wrongfully convicted and it won’t cost you a dime! Here in Pennsylvania, the law restricts the time for introducing evidence of … Continued