Philadelphia Department Of Prisons | Audacy

The death toll of Philadelphia’s opioid crisis is bleeding into city jails Officials are seeing a rise in overdose deaths among people in custody

December 13, 2022
Separate stabbings in Philadelphia jail leave 2 inmates hurt The stabbings happened at the Riverside Correctional Facility

September 7, 2022
Philly government faces severe staff shortages, despite $277M for program to prevent them After 23 years of the DROP program, the city is more than 3,000 employees short of its needs

August 26, 2022
Philadelphia sets record on overtime spending A Pennsylvania public spending watchdog organization is not pleased

August 17, 2022
Prisons commissioner speaks at City Council budget hearing as protesters decry conditions 'The rats and the roaches and the mice ...'

May 11, 2022
Residency requirement lifted for Philly police, corrections applicants

April 8, 2022
1st case of omicron variant in Philadelphia Northwest Philadelphia man tests positive for new variant of COVID-19; had been found in five other states

December 3, 2021
'Unsafe environment': City controller calls for more staff at Philadelphia prisons

June 29, 2021
Corrections officers in danger after man killed on prison property after release, union says

March 23, 2021
Philly to test entire prison population for COVID-19

May 19, 2020