The caller, who purported to be a member of the Berks County sheriff’s office, wasn’t mincing words: Either pay the $9,000 bond after failing to respond to a subpoena for a hearing or spend 72 hours ...

Berks County authorities found he was the common link in the separate seizures of four guns from people who are ineligible to ...

Jeffrey Smith knows a thing or two about what it’s like to spend time behind bars. The Berks County Prison warden has spent the last 20 years of his professional life focusing on that.

The Berks County Prison Board has adjusted one of its policies in an attempt to balance compliance with detention requests from federal immigration officials and the rights of those being detained.

Berks County detectives are warning residents to be on the lookout for two telephone scams involving a caller who purports to be a law enforcement official. Detectives with the district attorney’s ...

A Pottstown woman is headed to prison after a search of her apartment uncovered numerous drugs and a firearm that she was not ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Berks County Jail inmate. Jairo Vazquez Rosa died at Reading Hospital on Wednesday, officials said. Rosa, 20, had been in the Bern Township jail since ...

Berks County Jail employees gathered to honor all the corrections officers who've passed away in the past year. Berks County Jail employees gathered to honor all the corrections officers who've ...

A 21-year-old Lancaster man will spend up to 8 years in state prison after pleading guilty Monday to stealing a pizza ...

agents at Berks County Jail. "Recently, within the last week or so, ICE reached out to our warden and asked for us to reconsider our position on voluntary detainers," said Berks County ...

A man who listed addresses in Pottstown and in Bally, Berks County, was sent to prison and will have to report his address to police for the rest of his life after he admitted to sexually ...