'MASSIVE VIOLATIONS': An ICE detention center in Clearfield County is subjecting migrants to “inhumane, punitive, and dangerous conditions,” according to a report by Temple law students and a Philadelphia-based immigrant advocacy group. WHYY says the privately owned facility is the largest immigrant detention center in the Northeast. Advocates say it's "riddled with massive human rights violations."
 

CRISIS CALLS: Last week's school shooting in Georgia — and the panicked text messages between students and their parents — has touched off a debate about cellphone bans in schools and expectations of greater parental pushback to such policies, per Education Week. Pennsylvania's latest state budget included financial backing for school cellphone lockups. Lots of schools have already opted in.
 

EMPTY BEDS: Hundreds of unhoused people in Allegheny County were stuck on waiting lists while county-administered housing units sat empty last year, a county controller's audit found. The audit, focused on the county's use of state funds for a homeless assistance program, found inefficiencies and funding shortfalls at a time of high demand. “There’s a domino effect," Controller Corey O'Connor said.

MISSING MEDS: Michael Keefe says he was cut off of methadone while imprisoned in Luzerne County, resulting in severe symptoms and a violation of his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act, WVIA reports. A 25-year-old died by suicide two days after entering the jail in 2023, her family says while in opiate withdrawal. The county paid $780,000 to settle a lawsuit over a similar death in 2018.