Lawyers from two advocacy groups and a national law firm have filed a motion in federal court seeking class-action relief for all incarcerated people at.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court traveled to Pittsburgh this week to hear oral arguments on a number of cases, including one that the appellants’ lawyers say.
Attorneys representing people convicted of second-degree murder in Pennsylvania believe that the mandatory penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole is unconstitutional. But before the attorneys can begin arguing why they think that penalty is cruel and unusual punishment, given that their clients did not actually kill
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald has nominated a man who spent his career in corrections and once served as the county’s interim warden to be a citizen representative on the Jail Oversight Board. The county announced the nomination of William Stickman III to the board last month, and the issue
The Allegheny County Police Department Jail Internal Affairs Section and the Allegheny County Jail administrative team say they have both completed their “separate, independent” investigations.