Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bucks County Corrections Department officials have no plans to suspend a work release program in the wake of two additional ...

HARTFORD, CT — Known officially as the Risk Reduction Earned Credit Program, it's been controversial from the get-go, mainly because of the serious crimes that have taken place after an inmate was ...

HOW THIS PROGRAM WORKS. FOR A COMPANY THAT MAKES BOXES, ATLAS CONTAINER CORP IS REALLY THINKING OUTSIDE OF ONE. BY HIRING INMATES TO THE WORK RELEASE PROGRAM AND PAYING THEM THE SAME AS OTHER ...

Pilot inmate work-release programs place nonviolent prisoners into paid jobs. Programs cut recidivism, let participants save wages, and secure post-release jobs. Federal seed grants and national ...

COVINGTON, La. -- Early Thursday morning, 35-year-old Christopher Ricker escaped from a St. Tammany work release facility called North Shore Workforce in Covington. It was the latest in a string of ...

By pairing inmates with horses, Owens said, detainees gain practical job skills while also getting the therapeutic benefits of working closely with animals. In addition, the program helps detainees to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia inmates who most need in-prison educational programs — which better prepare them for release and make them less likely to reoffend — are, in large part, the ones not ...