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January 18, 2024 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

Starting this year, the NCCER course Your Role in the Green Environment will be taught at all state correctional institutions in PA...


July 05, 2022 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

On June 8, SCI Camp Hill held practical certification testing for barber shop students from facilities around the DOC...


July 01, 2022 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

​Prison uniforms were replaced by caps and gowns at SCI Phoenix on June 30 as the graduating class of 2022 received bachelor's degrees...


November 04, 2021 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

October was a busy month at SCI Waymart as it hosted four Cap and Gown Ceremonies honoring inmate graduates...


Tags: DOC, Education
October 19, 2021 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

Terri Fazio, chief of education in the DOC, was recognized as Region 1 Board Member of the Year by the Correctional Education Association...


Tags: Education
January 05, 2021 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

The Division of Education has been able to double the number of GED's that have been earned from 2015/16 to 2018/19 school years...


Tags: Education, Muncy
September 09, 2020 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

Dean James S. Brown of the College of Liberal Arts at Bloomsburg University has announced that Cathy Pickett from SCI Muncy...


May 03, 2019 12:00 AM
By: Kurt Bopp

There are many opportunities for inmates to learn trades and skills inside DOC facilities, but Randy Millard is happy to teach one with...


April 05, 2019 12:00 AM
By: Kurt Bopp

While many of his students have grown up with computers, Ron Propst is amazed at how few understand Microsoft Office.


March 03, 2019 12:00 AM
By: Kurt Bopp

In Sept. 2002, Mitchell took a job in a different kind of kitchen: the kitchen at SCI Waymart.