Prices have soared across entire prison systems, too. In Pennsylvania, commissary prices increased by nearly 27%, according to an analysis by the Pennsylvania Prison Society, an advocacy ...

With a rising inmate population, will Pennsylvania need to reopen prisons? “Our population ... Inmates can purchase additional food items from the commissary. “But even if they wouldn ...

When the price of a can of Maxwell House coffee increased 34 cents from a year ago at the commissary in New Jersey State Prison, Shakeil Price and many others in his unit had to cut back. At SCI Coal ...

Gen. HOPPMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners, has gone to Memphis on important official business. In his absence the control of his department devolves upon Major BRAGDEN. The Philadelphia ...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Pennsylvania Prison Society, an organization that advocates for the health, safety and dignity of incarcerated people, is sounding the alarm about the rising ...

Mangione was held at the Pennsylvania prison following his arrest in Altoona ... could not say how much money was deposited into Mangione's commissary account, telling Newsweek, "His banking ...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections wants more than $300 million in next year’s budget despite a declining population of incarcerated people and the recent closure of two ...