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 ...

A Maryland company is filling a need and providing opportunities by hiring inmates at its packaging plant in Severn. Atlas Container Corp., which makes boxes, is really thinking outside of the box by ...

COVINGTON, La. -- Early Thursday morning, 35-year-old Christopher Ricker escaped from a St. Tammany work release facility called North Shore Workforce in Covington. It was the latest in a string of ...

Delaware families of offenders say strict rules at the new work-release site are hurting chances for reentry success.

TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate voted to approve legislation forbidding adults on the state’s offender registry for sexually assaulting a person under the age of 16 from participating in work-release ...

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 ...