By co-locating staff at the Milwaukee Office of African American Affairs, Employ Milwaukee aims to better support people ...

During his nearly 14 years serving time in an Alabama prison, David Garlock wanted to do everything he could to better himself. That meant earning an education. While incarcerated, Garlock enrolled in ...

DAYTON, Ohio -- Learning societal rules about touching and personal space is the lesson of the day in Heidi Arnold's interpersonal communications class. “How many of you were raised in a touchy-feely ...

For more than a century, judges sentenced troubled boys to Boys Totem Town for rehabilitation away from their families and communities. Now Totem Town is closing its doors in St. Paul's Battle Creek ...

CASAS is a comprehensive, curriculum-based educational management and assessment system which measures identified competencies of local education programs, provides information about student placement ...

Multi-target correctional programs aimed at helping prisoners reintegrate into society have yielded positive results, according to a Correctional Service Canada report. Among positive findings in the ...

Alamo, GA. – Twenty-five inmates recently graduated from a new vocational welding program at Wheeler Correctional Facility with the inmate's family and loved ones in attendance. Wheeler and Coffee ...

The Virginia Office of the State Inspector General has announced that it will carry out a special review of the Bon Air ...

"It is deplorable and outrageous that this state's prisons appear to have become a repository for a great number of its mentally ill citizens. Persons who, with psychiatric care, could fit well into ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Washburn University has expanded the education programs it offers to inmates at the Topeka Correctional Facility. Washburn University says residents of the Topeka Correctional ...

Previous studies consistently showed that postrelease employment was a major contributing factor for recidivism among ex-offenders, but the studies lacked specific information about the type of ...

The first phase of the new $181-million Nanaimo Correctional Centre has opened at Brannen Lake, with more space and support programs to help inmates better integrate into society once released, the ...