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February 2019 Archive

Tags: DOC
February 07, 2019 12:00 AM
By: Terri Fazio, Director, DOC Bureau of Correction Education

February is Career and Technical Month, so the DOC is taking this opportunity to highlight three of its programs...


Tags: Parole
February 07, 2019 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

Parole Agents Maria Rosario and Bryan Hess came upon an unconscious individual on the ground between two cars...


February 07, 2019 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

Officials will gather at the Harrisburg Community Corrections Center for a training in the application of drug testing sweat patches...


February 06, 2019 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

An inmate at SCI Coal Township who recently witnessed staff responding to an unresponsive inmate wrote the following...


Tags: Phoenix
February 06, 2019 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

In an effort to decrease the deer population on institutional grounds, SCI Phoenix hosted three successful deer hunts...


Tags: Mercer
February 06, 2019 12:00 AM
By: Andrea Shiock

On Feb. 5, SCI Mercer employees participated in a blood drive with the American Red Cross, utilizing their Bloodmobile Donor Bus...


Tags: Smithfield
February 05, 2019 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

Micah Doggett and Lisa Hollibaugh, co-coordinators of Lean Management for SCI Smithfield, conducted extensive training...


Tags: DOC
February 04, 2019 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

Pennsylvania DOC Executive Deputy Secretary Shirley Moore Smeal recently spoke to graduates of Berks Connections/Pretrial Services'...


Tags: Forest
February 01, 2019 12:00 AM
By: Kurt Bopp

For more than a decade, Eric O'Rourke has taught inmates at SCI Forest the basics of masonry...