Corrections Policies

The duty to intervene in an excessive force situation is your legal and moral responsibility

A Luzerne County Correctional Facility lieutenant says COs need more training on how to recognize inmates at risk

The book was flagged for containing content viewed as "dangerously inflammatory in that it advocates or encourages" unrest

Nitrogen hypoxia is seen as a solution to the difficulty of obtaining lethal injection drugs

Officials: Revision "would do nothing to redirect other agency arrestees, failing to ensure officers take arrestees to a facility that aligns with their gender identity"

The ACLU says policy barring COs from maintaining full beards is discriminatory against members of the Sikh faith and Black officers

Court rules that seven months of solitary confinement for an inmate with known mental health issues violated the Eighth Amendment and clearly established law

Executions will now be held at least 60 days apart rather than every 30 days in the state

Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested that executions be set 60 days apart, rather than the current 30-day timeframe

In a lawsuit, the plaintiff claimed that “strip searches by prison guards who were female at birth conflict with his religious faith, which bars him from exposing his body to a woman other than his wife.”

Activities and operations are the pulse of the jail — they’re also the reason you need to implement a staffing plan

COs successfully argued that the state DOC failed to pay them for work done once they arrived at their prison for the beginning of their shifts

The weapon misfired and the female visitor was uninjured

The program changes testing from a written exam to a "training and experience" questionnaire

The judge said inmates were exposed to "mental torture" and deprived of adequate mental healthcare