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 ...

COLUMBUS, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 11, 2013) - Correctional Healthcare Companies (CHC), the largest medical services provider to county jails in the country, was selected by Muscogee County to fulfill ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, GA--(Marketwired - Sep 11, 2013) - Correctional Healthcare Companies (CHC), the largest medical services provider to county jails in the country, was selected by Muscogee County to fulfill ...

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 ...

Although perhaps satisfying people running the criminal-justice system, programs to improve the self-esteem, creative abilities or physical condition of inmates do little to keep them from committing ...

Last Wednesday, Kevin Hardy walked out of his Indianapolis home, stole a neighbor`s car at gunpoint and drove north toward Chicago. Left behind was the electronic monitoring equipment installed to ...

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 ...

Garfield County Inmate Programs Volunteer Coordinator Charlie Pearce is looking for volunteers to serve Garfield County and its inmates, according to a news release. The program was started in July ...

Government spending on programs to help re-integrate inmates back into society once they've served their sentences is not keeping pace with spending to build more jail cells, CBC News has learned.

Gov. Rick Scott has done it again. He decimated the education budget, though he is taking credit for enhancing it. Now he and the Florida House have cut programs from the Department of Corrections, ...

CARSON CITY -- The programs that use state prisoners as workers ran in the red last year. It was the first time in at least seven years that the programs lost money. John McCuin, chief of financial ...