A panel of experts didn’t have a clear answer about how to turn around the opioid crisis more broadly, although there were a couple small hopeful signs.
Local activists and community members alleged that incarcerated people faced ongoing issues when trying to access reading materials at the Allegheny County Jail.
City Paper's November 2022 Jail Watch aggregates this month's Allegheny County Jail news, including details on last weekend's heating failure, a modest expansion of the jail's ability to dispense methadone, and new cause of death determinations.
The majority of at least five inmates who died at the Allegheny County Jail this year expired of natural causes, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Two deaths were attributed to accidental causes, the office reported. Ronald James Andrus, 78, of McKees Rocks, died Aug. 14 as a
The majority of incarcerated people surveyed about conditions inside Allegheny County Jail said they found the food unsatisfactory, and sometimes inedible. They question whether this is a deliberate ploy to crank up spending at the commissary.