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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 ...
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 — Josue Quino, a 38-year-old inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Somerset, was discovered ...
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 ...
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 ...