The jail has been cited by the Allegheny County Health Department 162 times since 2014. By Jake Dabkowski Since 2014, The Allegheny County Jail’s residential kitchen has received 162 health code violations from the Allegheny…
A death in a Allegheny County Jail exposes…
Brittany Hailer This story first appeared in the Pittsburgh Current in December 2020. For days, members of the Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board did not know who had really died within the walls of the…
Incarcerated person dies following incident at Allegheny County…
By Brittany Hailer Paul Spisak, 77, died Sunday in a hospital after the court released him from Allegheny County Jail custody following an incident that left him unresponsive in his cell on Jan. 22. The…
County officials investigate accounts given by the incarcerated…
By Brittany Hailer Allegheny County Police Superintendent Christopher Kearns and County Jail Warden Orlando Harper on Friday released the initial findings of an investigation into declarations given by seven incarcerated individuals about conditions in the…
At the same time the Allegheny County Jail…
Medical staff is also short, with reports of just one nurse available at times By Brittany Hailer The Allegheny County Jail is once again on 23-and-one lockdown a month after county voters passed a referendum…
Recreation time at the Allegheny County jail means…
Brittany Hailer A woman incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail mental health unit said she spends four hours a day --the entirety of her daily recreational time-- chained to a table in the women's acute…
Allegheny County Jail reports nearly 300 incarcerated persons…
By Brittany Hailer The Allegheny County Jail was supposed to end most uses of solitary confinement on Dec 5 as a result of a referendum passed by county voters last spring. But, in this month’s…
Incarcerated person dies at Allegheny County Jail
By Brittany Hailer Roger Millspaugh, 74, died in the Allegheny County Jail on Dec. 22 according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner. Millspaugh was found unresponsive during "medication pass" on the jail’s medical housing unit,…
COVID-19, Rodents, Unpaid Labor: A Year In The…
By Brittany Hailer This story first appeared in the Pittsburgh Current on May 3, 2021. The Pittsburgh Current converted to The Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism in June 2021. This story has been republished here.…