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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Scammers are targeting families of inmates at the BCDC, falsely claiming the jail has started a program allowing prisoners to be released on ankle monitors to spend time at home for the holidays.

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 ...