Montgomery County officials ordered testing of all inmates and staff at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility and the results contained a bombshell. Sources say between 17 and 20 percent of all inmates tested positive for coronavirus. This is a shockingly high number given the estimates we’ve seen of 1 to 5 percent mortality. However, we’d […]
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Is Governor Wolf Purging the State Prison System?
Governor Wolf has just ordered the Pennsylvania State Correctional system to start releasing “nonviolent” state correctional inmates to house arrest who are within 9 months of their minimum eligibility for parole. This is a huge development as Pennsylvania’s state sentences require a minimum parole date and a maximum date such as 10-20 years. This means […]
Should prisoners be released due to Coronavirus?
‘Forced Social Distancing’: Courts Urged to Prevent Prisons From Becoming Vector for COVID-19 Philadelphia-area courts and criminal justice lawyers have been working to develop procedures to handle cases as quickly as possible. By Max Mitchell | March 31, 2020 at 06:59 PM Prison officials throughout Pennsylvania have been scrambling to contain the outbreak of COVID-19 in correctional facilities, […]
