Pennsylvania’s state prisons announced earlier today they will not allow in-person visits for the coming month because their staff has been thinned by coronavirus infection. In-person visits will be stopped , at all state correctional institutions, starting on Thursday and lasting until Feb. 28. Free video visits will be expanded and cable TV in inmates’ cells will be free in February. Acting Corrections Secretary George Little said quarantine requirements have increasingly required voluntary and mandatory overtime he considers unsustainable. The prison system implemented a statewide quarantine in March 2020, and in-person visits began to resume in May 2021.
