1899: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, grandson of Queen Victoria, dies aged 24 in mysterious circumstances. On the same day, the ...

Slick Willie” Sutton climbed over the castle-like walls of the old Holmesburg prison, marking his first successful escape ...

NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia man is headed to prison for assaulting a Pottstown police officer during a disturbance in a borough parking lot. Kyante Marquel Blakely, 33, of the 6100 block of ...

Shapiro's predecessors closed three prisons over the past decade and opened one new one, Phoenix, in suburban Philadelphia. Shapiro's administration also said it would close halfway houses ...

A former Philadelphia homicide detective is going to jail after he was sentenced for his role in a “violent interrogation” that took place in 2010. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry ...

A Philadelphia man accused of beating two people to death in a Springettsbury Township rooming house in October will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to the killings ...

A Philadelphia man who stabbed two security guards at the Center City Macy’s store, killing one, was sentenced Thursday to 30 ...

Prison officials say Quino had been housed ... 20 to 40 year sentence after being convicted of third-degree murder in Philadelphia County. State police and the Somerset County coroner's office ...

A federal judge agreed Tuesday to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to hormone therapy ...

Federal jails in Los Angeles, Miami, and Philadelphia, as well as prisons in Atlanta, Kansas, and New Hampshire, are reportedly being used. The move revives a practice from Trump’s first term ...

Former detective James Pitts was sentenced to serve at least 2 and a half years after being accused of roughing up a suspect to coerce a false confession in a 2010 murder case.

A former Philadelphia homicide detective will spend at least two and a half years behind bars after prosecutors say he helped ...