SANTA ANA – About $5 million a year is spent on programs and classes to rehabilitate inmates, but there is no system in place to determine if they work, a grand jury report found. The report chides ...

Slashing the Texas prisons budget to save money could jeopardize inmate medical care and rehabilitation programs for sex, drug and alcohol offenders, resulting in more crime and potential ...

Being “tough on crime” is a popular campaign talking point. When crimes are committed, research says, fear appeals proliferate. Reason gives way to emotion. A hard line begins to look more attractive, ...

With the hopes of reducing inmate recidivism, Chautauqua County is focusing on helping inmates get a job after incarceration. A program promoting inmate reentry into the community is being offered for ...

WASHINGTON - Saying inmate work is an important component of rehabilitation, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged opposition to a bill that would effectively end prison employment programs ...

Increased efforts by California to change the behavior of prison inmates have not reduced the rate at which ex-convicts commit new crimes, state auditors reported Thursday. The assessment relied on ...

Already faced with a dwindling federal workforce, California is preparing to shut down one of its main training facilities for inmate firefighters as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to reduce the ...

[Noozhawk’s note: This is the second in a series of stories examining Santa Barbara County’s custody operations. The county jail and substations, inmate services programs and Los Prietos Boys Camp are ...

When a pair of puppies stepped into a state prison’s highest security yard on a scorching summer day, dozens of felons fretted that the Labradors would singe their feet on hot pavement. “Pick them up!

Washington state prisons are rethinking a program designed to change inmates’ thinking. Independent researchers and state officials say the pilot program tested on hundreds of inmates at Eastern ...

Already faced with a dwindling federal workforce, California is preparing to shut down one of its main training facilities for inmate firefighters as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to reduce the ...