Samantha Melamed

The order came a month after a federal judge found the city in contempt of its 2022 settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit filed over "horrendous" conditions in Philadelphia jails.

Two inmates tested positive this week at the State Correctional Institution - Phoenix, a spokesperson said. The inmates are being treated and are reported in stable condition.

Brith Sholom House, the beleaguered senior housing complex in Philadelphia's Wynnefield section that fell into disrepair under the ownership of

A 31-year-old woman who died in a Philadelphia jail Saturday morning had been arrested for drug possession just days earlier in Kensington as part of a coordinated sweep in the neighborhood.

Police would conduct sweeps to arrest people using drugs on the street, give them summary citations, offer them treatment and diversion programs, and bring them before a judge that same day.

At 10:30 p.m. Friday, a supervisor touring B Unit at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, a city jail in Northeast Philadelphia, observed that no officer had been assigned to the unit.

A Philadelphia judge — and former Democratic state representative — was barred from the bench on Monday for refusing to stop posting political statements on Facebook.

Pennsylvania's Court of Judicial Discipline found in May that Common Pleas Court Judge Mark B.

A man who served 41 years in prison for a murder in North Philadelphia — and whose conviction was tainted by the “sex for lies” scheme exposed in

One morning this summer, Roxy was sleeping on the sidewalk in Kensington The next minute, she said, “I thought I was in hell.”