For more than a decade, the Jessamine County Detention Center has been trying to prepare inmates for life beyond jail. That ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections on Thursday approved allocating 100 beds in Little Rock to a pilot program that would allow industries to work on job skills with soon-to-be released inmates. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) — The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said it’s looking for an inmate who “walked off” from a work release program Friday. Patrick Osbourne, 24, was last seen around 10:30 a.m.

Boyle County officials are warning residents about a scam in which callers are impersonating jail authorities and attempting to collect money from families of inmates at the Boyle […] ...