For more than a decade, the Jessamine County Detention Center has been trying to prepare inmates for life beyond jail. That includes the work they’re doing within and the physical work they put into ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- State prison officials say as many as 17,600 California inmates may be released early due to the coronavirus, 70% more than previously estimated and a total that victims and ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — In Anderson County, leaders at the sheriff's office launched a new program they hope will give people being held in jail a second chance. Anderson County Sheriff Russell ...

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.

An inmate who was in Erie County's Community Works Program was serving sentence for conviction for pistol-whipping a woman, according to records Erie Times-News obtained in Right-to-Know case. Erie ...

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 […] ...