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Federal lawsuit challenges suicide ruling in Pa. prison inmate’s death
WILLIAMSPORT—The suicide ruling in the 2023 death of a convicted murderer while incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview is being challenged in a federal lawsuit.
Erie Times-News2d
Muslim inmate's lawsuit prompts policy change over religious meals in Pa. prisons
A lawsuit filed by a Muslim prisoner at the State Correctional Institution at Albion has prompted the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to "significantly improve religious meal accommodations ...
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Shapiro budget proposes closing 2 state prisons, but corrections officers' union pushes back
Tom Wolf, proposed a similar budget measure in his 2020 proposal, targeting State Correctional Institution Retreat ... Phoenix on the same property) SCI Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, closed ...
Altoona Mirror3y
Inmate’s parents, DOC settle lawsuit
The parents of an inmate who died by suicide in 2012 while incarcerated at the former State Correctional Institution at Cresson ... Abolitionist Law Center in Pittsburgh. The settlement comes ...
Altoona Mirror3y
Preventing suicide a priority for corrections department
died by suicide while an inmate in the now-closed State Correctional Institution in Cresson. One of the attorneys who represented the Palakovics, Bret D. Grote of the Pittsburgh office of the ...