SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — A Somerset County correctional officer is facing ... synthetic marijuana and cellphones into the Somerset facility. Police say they have been looking into cases ...

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — State Correctional Institution Somerset is on lockdown Tuesday afternoon following an inmate assault, the Department of Corrections confirmed. Authorities say one ...

SOMERSET, Pa. — State Correctional Institution-Somerset remained on lockdown Monday, three days after officials say "significant contraband" was found outside the prison. Department of ...

SOMERSET, Pa. (KDKA) - Two people are facing felony ... 32-year-old Marcus Graham tried to smuggle suboxone into the State Correctional Institution in Somerset on Aug. 17 after a visitation ...

SOMERSET, Pa. (KDKA) -- Three Pennsylvania Department of Corrections staff members have been arrested for trying to introduce contraband into the facilities where they work. The staff members ...

Starting this week, state-run correctional facilities in Pennsylvania will ... Quehanna, Rockview and Somerset.) Inmates in those prisons will be allowed to eat in cafeterias and can spend time ...

Cells are shown in a cleared prison wing. (Marc Levy/AP Photo) An unidentified 73-year-old man has succumbed to COVID-19 at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution – Somerset, the first such ...

SOMERSET, PA — An inmate at the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Somerset has died, according to a statement released by Superintendent Kenneth Hollibaugh. Steve Cossom, 44, was ...

Laurie Semelsberger, 60, of Ebensburg, who worked as a psychological services associate at the State Correctional Institution at Somerset, was accused of having sexual encounters with a male ...