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Pennsylvania prison statistics: Number of state prisoners: 51,757 Number of county jail inmates: ~36,000 Number of penitentiaries: 26 Overpopulation in state penitentiaries: 4,000+ inmates Recidivism rate: 44% Annual corrections budget: $1.86 billion Price of new correctional complex at Graterford: $315 million Historically, Pennsylvania has maintained a “lock them up and throw away the key” prison […]

The widow of a Philadelphia police officer who was killed in a drunk driving accident is now suing the restaurant that served the driver. Linda Lorenzo is naming TGI Friday’s and parent company Carlson Restaurants as defendants, as well as driver John Leck Jr. Officer Brian Lorenzo was killed when Leck drove the wrong way on I-95 […]

Thanks to some recent Court decisions, certain immigrants who are facing deportation now have a good chance at remaining in the United States. In Lafler v. Cooper, 556 U.S. –––– (2012) and Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S.Ct. 1473 (2010), the Supreme Court ruled that if a defendant’s attorney fails to accurately advise him of a […]

Savannah Dietrich, a 17-year-old girl from Kentucky, may be facing contempt of court charges and a jail sentence after she tweeted the names of two juveniles who sexually assaulted her. Dietrich said that she took to the popular social networking site because she was frustrated with the plea deal that two boys who assaulted her […]

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a man to death by beheading for participating in an illegal “drifting” event where he lost control of his vehicle and killed two people who were watching. Drifting is a sport where people drive a vehicle at a high speed and engage the emergency brake, making the back tires […]