From the Pennsylvania Capital-Star (https://www.penncapital-star.com/): As progressives in the Pennsylvania Legislature gear up for another run at eliminating cash bail in the new session, they might want to train their gaze a few hundred miles to the west for a … Continued
Hell is a “restricted housing” cell within Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections. Photo via Flickr user jmiller291. By Matt Stroud and Midge Carter, ACLU-PA Daniel Delker is a Pennsylvania prisoner who has been in solitary confinement since 1973. That’s 44 … Continued
Updated: OCTOBER 17, 2016 — 1:30 PM EDT by Samantha Melamed, Staff Writer @samanthamelamed Last summer, Kameelah Davis-Spears was just one year out of homelessness. She’d found a house for herself and her four children in West Philadelphia using a Section 8 voucher. … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/31/debtors-prison-kids-poor-children-incarcerated-when-families-cant-pay-juvenile-court Published on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 by Common Dreams First-of-its-kind report finds children are being imprisoned nationwide when families can’t pay fines levied by juvenile justice system By Nika Knight, staff writer “The debt in effect creates … Continued