Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An inmate at the Allegheny County Jail has died after he was found unresponsive on Sunday morning. Allegheny County Jail Warden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After years of criticism, calls for change and the installation of a new warden, there are still problems with serious medical ...

The Abolitionist Law Center sent a letter to Allegheny County officials on Tuesday notifying them of their intent to file a lawsuit if the county does not immediately rescind contracts for ...

A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court claims Allegheny County Jail officials didn’t provide a wheezing inmate who had chronic asthma with his inhaler for up to 30 days. Paul C. Allen, a ...

Indiana County President Judge Thomas M. Bianco sentenced Tiffany N. Slider, 31, to concurrent sentences totaling three ...

The suit names former warden Orlando Harper and former interim warden Shane Dady, as well as several top deputies and 10 corrections officers as defendants. A man who says he was assaulted by ...

The Allegheny County Jail in Downtown Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could decide who gets more of a say in how the Allegheny County Jail is run: the voters, ...

A scheme to smuggle contraband into the Allegheny County Jail was busted after police said they found a Dorito bag containing drugs in the bathroom of a magistrate's office. Allegheny County police ...

Some of the correctional officers at the Allegheny County Jail work 16-hour double shifts for four to five days in a row. Here is what two officers said about this tortuous work schedule in a 2025 ...

Officials to use state grant to address trauma among Allegheny County Jail inmates ...

Three people are facing charges after allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into the Allegheny County Jail. According to the Allegheny County Police Department, 21-year-old Tyreace Platt and 39-year-old ...

The Pennsylvania Prison Society has named Matt Dugan, a former chief public defender for Allegheny County, as its first Western Pennsylvania region director. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the Prison ...