Slick Willie” Sutton climbed over the castle-like walls of the old Holmesburg prison, marking his first successful escape ...

Rosario-Ernestor was taken into custody and is now being held at Lancaster County prison where he faces murder charges in a ...

A Philadelphia man who was exonerated ... Thomas had already been sentenced to life in prison once when he was just 20 years old before his conviction was overturned. At the time, a jury convicted ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A former Philadelphia homicide detective has been sentenced to 32 to 64 months in prison for assaulting a suspect to obtain a confession and then lying about it in court.

“This ends a lengthy ordeal for C.J., who was forced to grow up in prison, incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. Today’s decision is an acknowledgment from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s ...

A 32-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in ... This incident marks the third stabbing within Philadelphia’s prison system in just 24 hours. On Friday evening, two inmates, aged 30 and ...