The vote comes after several members of the council admitted the current city code—which includes time in Berks County Prison for unpaid parking tickets—is "inhumane and unjust." According to ...

READING, Pa. - Authorities say two teenagers are under arrest, charged in the deadly shooting of another teenager in Reading's City Park ... remain at the Berks County Jail.

Police claim Tyler Osborne, 30, of Boyertown, an inmate at the Berks County Jail, used a cellmate's electronic tablet to ...

May 13—A city man charged in the midday gunshot slaying of an acquaintance last summer in downtown Reading is in Berks County Prison following his extradition from New York. Vincent J.

A nonprofit partnership is studying the justice and jail systems in Berks County in an effort to reduce ... Now 41 and managing a barber shop in the city, Velazquez was 22 when he was jailed ...

A 19-year-old man who was one of three suspects charged in the killing of a 19-year-old man in southeast Reading last spring is in Berks County Prison following his extradition from New York City.

The Berks County Prison Board has adjusted one of its policies in an attempt to balance compliance with detention requests from federal immigration officials and the rights of those being detained.

BERN TWP., Pa. -- A ceremony honored prison guards and other staff in Bern Township. The 'Berks County Jail System Memorial Service' takes place each year during National Correctional Officers and ...

Police say a prisoner at the Wernersville Community Corrections Center in Berks County signed out to ... a man who managed to escape an Atlantic County jail, authorities say another prisoner ...

A Berks County detention center that formerly housed ... In response, 50 Pennsylvania elected officials — including several Philadelphia City Councilmembers and state lawmakers from Southeastern ...