Work release programs have been phased out at New Hampshire's county jails, the result of a shift in the criminal justice system that has reduced the number of eligible prisoners. As incarceration ...

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges Wednesday against two former St Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies closely associated with a private company that ran a work release program for former ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For decades, people sentenced to jail for some low-level crimes in Denver had the opportunity to keep their day jobs. They’d spend nights and weekends in ...

Wisconsin was the first state to let incarcerated people work in the community, letting them save money and pay for room and ...

A federal grand jury is investigating former St Tammany Parish Sheriff Rodney "Jack" Strain and one of the privately-run work release programs he ran, owned by the children of some of Strain's top ...

The decision by the Snyder County commissioners to close the county prison near Selinsgrove and instead pay other counties to house its inmates has revealed a potential concern — the opportunity for ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — Eligible Caddo Correctional inmates once again can leave the lockup five days a week to go to work at a job off site. The Caddo Sheriff’s Office resurrected its work-release ...

A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot ...

Convicted child sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in the sexual abuse of underage girls. But new claims have ...

Wisconsin was the first state to let some incarcerated people work in the community, allowing them to save money and pay for room and board. Today, prisoners say there aren’t nearly enough of ...