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Blog Montgomery County PA Correctional Facility
Montgomery County PA has invested in Crisis Intervention Team training, a mental health court, and a co-responder model to divert people with mental illness away from the jail. Here's how the programs work and who qualifies.
News George W. Hill Correctional Facility - Delaware County Prison
George W. Hill Correctional Facility has faced lawsuits over in-custody deaths and conditions. Private management by GEO Group complicated accountability. Delaware County's transition to public management partly aims to address this.
Blog George W. Hill Correctional Facility - Delaware County Prison
George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County, PA has held ICE immigration detainees alongside criminal inmates. The facility's ICE contract has been debated as Delaware County transitions away from GEO Group management.
Blog George W. Hill Correctional Facility - Delaware County Prison
George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Thornton, PA is operated by GEO Group under contract with Delaware County. The county voted to end the private contract and bring the facility under public management. Here's the history and status.
Blog Bucks County PA Department of Corrections
Bucks County has invested in mental health diversion and drug court programs to reduce jail population for people whose underlying issue is addiction or mental illness rather than public safety risk. Here's what's available.
Blog Bucks County PA Department of Corrections
Pennsylvania still uses cash bail. Bucks County's pretrial population fills a significant portion of its jail. A state Supreme Court task force has pushed reform. Here's where things stand and what options detainees have.
Blog Bucks County PA Department of Corrections
Bucks County has one of Pennsylvania's highest opioid death rates. Fentanyl-soaked mail reaching county jails has killed inmates. Bucks County Corrections implemented mail scanning to stop paper-based drug smuggling. Here's what changed.
News Allegheny County PA Jail - 2nd Avenue
The Allegheny County Controller's 2023 performance audit found significant mental health care deficiencies at the ACJ — inadequate intake screening, understaffed mental health unit, and poor crisis monitoring. Multiple in-custody deaths followed.
News Oregon Department of Corrections - (OR DOC)
After Oregon DOC fired health director Joe Bugher in February 2025 over a patient care investigation, Bugher filed a $6.9M lawsuit claiming he was fired in retaliation for reporting problems in the prison medical system. Here's the competing narrative.
News Oregon Department of Corrections - (OR DOC)
Oregon DOC paid $3.5M to the family of a man whose heart attack symptoms went untreated at Oregon State Penitentiary, and $1.5M to a woman whose traumatic brain injury was denied specialist care. Both cases were settled before trial.
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