The Daily Numbers: 2 suicides at Delaware County Prison that are under investigation.
6 suicides at the county jail since Community Education Centers took over operations there in 2008.
136.3 million dollars, how much Delaware County paid CEC to operate the prison from 2012 to 2014.
1,883 beds at the county prison.
383 security staffers, 24 administrators and 82 treatment staffers at the prison.
1 privately run correctional facility in Pa. That is the one right here in Delco.
50, age of Richard Plotts, the gunman who killed 1 staffer and wounded another in a shooting at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby last year. He entered a plea of guilty but mentally ill yesterday.
24, age of man held for trial for shooting at Chester police during investigation of series of suspicious fires in the city.
250 students who will be residing in the 1st ever residence hall planned for the Middletown campus of Penn State Brandywine.
53, age of Drexel Hill man who fell off a ladder while working to remove a tree limb in his front yard. He died of his injuries.
28 years, how long Stephen Reed served as mayor of Harrisburg. He now faces hundreds of counts of corruption.
4 stolen paintings by Chadds Ford native N.C. Wyeth, which a Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to transporting from Maine to California.
4 times the number of people imprisoned in the U.S., according to President Obama. He addressed the NAACP in Philly and urged changes in the system.
46 drug offenders whose terms me commuted on Tuesday.
3 billion miles, the distance to Pluto, which NASA reached with a craft that sent back pictures yesterday.
2 straight All-Star Game MVPs for Millville, N.J., native Mike Trout.
4-1 win for British premiere team Bournemouth in friendly over the Union in Chester.
5-2 win for Marple in District 19 Little League game.
Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Thankfully, Jonathan Papelbon did not get into last night’s All-Star game. Good.
I Don’t Get It: Video captured two bicycle riders - riding blue Indego bike-sharing bikes - rolling down the Schuylkill Expressway.
Today’s Upper: Kudos to Sen. Dominic Pileggi, who got legislation that beefs up the state’s DNA law to track criminal offenders, passed.
Quote Box: “It’s a concern to County Council. Anytime these types of incidents happen, we have to be concerned about it.”
- County Councilman Mario Civera, on investigation into two suicides at county prison.
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