In March, a comprehensive settlement agreement was reached in a lawsuit filed by Disability Rights Pennsylvania (DRP) against ...

Allegations of sexual abuse at juvenile facilities across Pennsylvania have prompted over 200 lawsuits, according to Jerome Block of the Levy Konigsberg law firm. A 2024 Senate report titled ...

Former Gov. Tom Wolf created a child advocate role in 2019 to prevent abuse in state facilities, but its lack of legal ...

The plaintiffs and defendants in ongoing litigation over the long-shuttered Delaware County Juvenile ... facility. Suits from McGarrigle and others followed, and now number 11 separate lawsuits ...

A former resident of the now-closed Cresson Secure Treatment Unit for juveniles has filed a federal lawsuit contending ... operated the facility under contract with the Pennsylvania Department ...