News, PA State News
May 20, 2022
ROCKVIEW (TNS) — A group of inmates at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview in Centre County recently demonstrated the tree-climbing skills ...
News, PA State News
Jan 24, 2022
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania's state prisons announced Monday they will not allow in-person visits for the coming month because their staff has been...
News
Nov 18, 2021
ALTOONA (AP) — A jail guard was shot and killed at a Pennsylvania courthouse by what appears to be friendly fire during a struggle with an inmate who ...
Crime
Aug 31, 2021
SMETHPORT — A Port Allegany man was arraigned Monday on allegations that he was concealing a folding knife and lighter in his underwear while sitting ...
News
Aug 24, 2021
HARRISBURG — Inmates in Pennsylvania state prisons will be counted in their home districts and not where their prisons are located after a divided vot...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 13, 2021
Pennsylvania has a prison problem, and it’s not the one most people think. Yes, like most states and like the federal government, the Keystone State h...
Crime
Jun 11, 2021
An inmate at the McKean County Jail has been arrested on additional charges for allegedly having someone smuggle methamphetamine into the jail for her...
Crime
May 18, 2021
Weapons charges against jail inmate bound to court Charges against a McKean County Jail inmate who allegedly possessed makeshift weapons had charges a...
News
May 04, 2021
More than 200 employees of FCI-McKean have filed suit against the federal government, demanding back pay for overtime and hazardous duty for prison co...
Crime
Apr 07, 2021
Two men have been charged with possessing sharpened objects while they were inmates at McKean County Jail. Both men were in jail awaiting trials for s...
Local News
Mar 25, 2021
SMETHPORT — The McKean County commissioners approved a resolution Wednesday amending the inmate telephone service agreement to add two years to the ex...
Local News
Jan 19, 2021
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is reporting 15 inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 at Federal Correctional Institution at McKean. To date, another...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 19, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has hit certain populations hard. Seniors are at risk. Cancer patients. People with pre-existing respiratory or circulatory c...
Local News
Dec 04, 2020
The Federal Correctional Institution at McKean has had well over a hundred cases of COVID-19 at its facility. According to the Federal Bureau of Priso...
Bradford, Local News, News
Aug 27, 2020
ERIE — An inmate at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to three months in jail ...
Crime
Jul 10, 2020
A correctional officer at McKean County Jail has asked that no charges be filed against an inmate accused of assaulting him last week. According to Le...
Local News
Jun 11, 2020
ERIE — An inmate at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of possessio...
Bradford, Crime, Local News, ...
May 30, 2020
ERIE — A former inmate of Allenwood United States Penitentiary in Allenwood has been sentenced in federal court to eight months in jail on his convict...
Crime, Local News
May 20, 2020
A Bradford woman is facing new drug charges after she allegedly brought methamphetamine into the McKean County Jail. Christine M. Cutlip, 33, of 52 Pe...
Bradford, Local News, News
May 04, 2020
The first full week of May — National Correctional Officers Week — is set aside to honor correctional officers and personnel who work in corrections. ...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
