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Wolf Administration Participates in National Project to Review Safe Inmate Population Reduction During COVID-19

October 20, 2020

The Wolf Administration recently participated in a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine project, which resulted in the report: Decarcerating Correctional Facilities During COVID-19. Released today, the report, which was funded by Arnold Ventures and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers guidance on efforts to decarcerate, or reduce the incarcerated population, as a response…

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Los datos del panel muestran aumentos semanales de casos de COVID en todo el estado, múltiples condados con altos porcentajes positivos

July 31, 2020

El Gobernador Tom Wolf dio a conocer hoy una actualización de la situación semanal que detalla las medidas de mitigación del estado basadas en el Panel de control del sistema de monitoreo de advertencia temprana de COVID-19 que compara el período de siete días del 24 de julio al 30 de julio con los siete…

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Gov. Wolf: Pennsylvania Reduced Prison Population by Record-Setting 3,471 since March 1

June 22, 2020

Governor Tom Wolf announced today that since March 1 the population of those in state correctional facilities has been reduced by 3,471 individuals, the largest multiple-month decrease ever experienced by the Department of Corrections and one that likely helped the department reduce the number of COVID-19 cases in facilities.

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Gobernador Wolf: Pennsylvania redujo la población carcelaria a un récord de 3,471 desde el 1 de marzo

June 22, 2020

El Gobernador Tom Wolf anunció que desde el 1 de marzo, la población de personas en centros correccionales estatales se ha reducido a 3,471, la mayor disminución de varios meses jamás experimentada por el Departamento de Correcciones, lo que probablemente ayudó al departamento a reducir la cantidad de casos de COVID-19 en los centros.

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Gov. Wolf: Department of Corrections to Establish Temporary Program to Reprieve Sentences of Incarceration

April 10, 2020

Under the authority granted to him by the Pennsylvania Constitution and the Emergency Management Services Code, Governor Tom Wolf today ordered Department of Corrections officials to establish a Temporary Program to Reprieve Sentences of Incarceration to help aid the department in the transfer of qualifying individuals to community corrections facilities or home confinement amid the…