A corrections officer at Philadelphia’s Federal Detention Center sexually abused a female prisoner last year, pinning the ...

A corrections officer has been accused of sexually abusing an inmate at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia. United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Michael Jefferson ...

Three people pleaded guilty to smuggling contraband into a Philadelphia prison, with a former officer and two accomplices ...

Michael Jefferson, 42, of Cherry Hill, allegedly forced himself on a woman who was under his supervision at the prison in ...

Philadelphia voters will choose whether to create an independent body to investigate dangerous conditions that have plagued ...

Michael Jefferson, 42, of Cherry Hill, was charged with aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, sexual abuse of a ward and ...

A 26-year-old Philadelphia police officer is in critical condition after he was shot outside Overbrook High School Wednesday.