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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally received a sentence of life without parole Wednesday after families of his ...

None of us wants to live in the kind of country where losing an election means going to prison. Russia, for example, or the proverbial banana republic...

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...

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...

America held its breath. ”Guilty.” ”Guilty.” ”Guilty.” And the sigh was released. The verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial confirmed what the country al...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is reporting 15 inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 at Federal Correctional Institution at McKean. To date, another...

The coronavirus pandemic has hit certain populations hard. Seniors are at risk. Cancer patients. People with pre-existing respiratory or circulatory c...

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...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In light of media reports detailing outbreaks of coronavirus at prisons in multiple states, U.S. Senator Bob Casey, D-Pa., sent a l...

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Bob Casey, D-Pa., led several members of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation in asking the Fede...

The Federal Correctional Institution at McKean in Lafayette Township was placed on “limited operational status” after a staff member was assaulted the...

LEWIS RUN — It was an evening of honoring longtime volunteers who included Albert Pivovarnik — who has served for close to two decades — during the FC...

A Buffalo, N.Y., man who was previously accused of delivering cocaine in Bradford will serve life in prison for selling a fatal dose of drugs that kil...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has promoted Dr. Tony Gaskew, director of the criminal justice program, to full professor. His research areas...

THIS WEEK : Gov. Tom Wolf has designated the week of this week as Corrections Employee Week. Stephanie L. Vettenburg-Shaffer, McKean County District A...

OSSINING, N.Y. — Sparkling in the sunlight that inspired 19th-century romantic painters of the Hudson River School, Sing Sing prison's razor wire, thr...

SMETHPORT — A Puerto Rican national was sentenced Tuesday in McKean County Court to a lengthy term in state prison for possessing drugs that were smug...

SMETHPORT — An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution-McKean was convicted Tuesday in McKean County Court of possessing drugs that were smuggl...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford man who pleaded guilty last month to allegations he started two fires in the Bradford area was sentenced Thursday in McKean Cou...

JOHNSONBURG — A Penfield man that is currently incarcerated in Elk County Prison in Ridgway is facing new charges after he allegedly assaulted a fello...