FOX 29's Bill Anderson has the story. PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge signed off on a settlement Thursday between Pennsylvania death row prisoners and the state Corrections Department to make broad changes to their confinement rules.
U.S. District Judge John Jones approved the deal that gives the state's death-sentenced inmates the same conditions as inmates in general population, although they will continue to be segregated in special units at three prisons.
The agreement, Jones wrote, “effectuates a sweeping alteration of the class members’ conditions of confinement. As such, we have absolutely no hesitancy in approving it.” Five prisoners sued the corrections secretary and others in 2018 to challenge practices that kept them isolated most