By Andy Hoover Communications director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary has been closed since 1971. Pennsylvania’s prison secretary wants to close two more prisons. Last Friday, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel announced that the DOC will … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-06-20/criminal-justice/national-study-shows-crime-and-prison-populations-declining/a52503-1 June 20, 2016 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Pennsylvania’s prison population grew 12 percent and crime decreased 23 percent, according to a new national report, between 2006 and 2014. (Marduk/Wikimedia … Continued