Work release is now an option for eligible female Snyder County inmates. The county has inked an agreement with Columbia ...

Kansas Legislature working on bill forbidding certain sex offenders to be in work-release programs or have legal access to ...

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 ...

Clearfield County will allow some pre-trial detainees to be eligible for the Clearfield County Jail’s work release program, President Judge Paul E. Cherry announced at Tuesday’s meeting of ...

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 ...

Wilmington City Councilwoman Shane Darby addresses a community meeting about the pending closure of the Plummer Correctional Center, which had a prison work release program. (Sarah Mueller/WHYY) What ...

Most of the jobs available to Wisconsin prisoners are paid not in dollars, but cents. Minimum wage laws don’t apply behind bars, so some people scrub toilets for less than a quarter an hour. But one ...