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The call came in around 3:45 AM on the morning of February 8, 2002, for a vehicle fire in a parking lot near the 16th Street Bridge in Northside. The blaze was so intense that firefighters didn't realize someone had been inside until the

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Soft light poured out the windows of an old bricklayer's mansion turned event space in Wilkinsburg. Inside, roughly 20 people sat around two dining room tables, guarded by a maze of brightly colored halls and side rooms filled with plants a

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Allegheny County already has paid more than $350,000 to Adelphoi, months before the Latrobe-based nonprofit services provider will begin to operate the former Shuman Juvenile Detention Center. There is no clear timeline when the facility

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When the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania issued a contract to nonprofit operator Adelphoi to take over Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, it did so with virtually no public input or other government oversight

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Allegheny County paid $120,000 last month to settle a lawsuit with three women with psychiatric disabilities who alleged they were brutally assaulted by a staff member while held at the Allegheny County Jail, contracts show

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Allegheny County is bringing in millions from lawsuits against major opioid distributors and manufacturers — money designated as another weapon in the county's arsenal to abate the opioid epidemic. So how is it being spent? Allegheny County

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Update (9/26/23): The Pittsburgh Independent and Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism have learned that Allegheny County’s contract with Adelphoi is valued at $73.2 million over five years. On September 15, the county announced it

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PUBLISHING NOTE: This article is co-authored by investigative journalist Brittany Hailer, director and founder of the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. Allegheny County has paid private security consultant Joseph Garcia the

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