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 ...

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 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- This week, the work release program at the Caddo Correctional Center added a few more participants. There are 10 inmates coming and going daily to be able to put in hours at a job ...

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

More participants are joining a program that aims to provide more of a productive transition for jail inmates a few years away from release in Caddo Parish. At Caddo Correctional Center, the program ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) said its Work Release Program is showing promising results. ODOC's Work Release Program helps formerly incarcerated people reenter society ...

TROUP COUNTY, Ga. - Troup County deputies are searching for an escaped inmate. Officials say 43-year-old Broderick Brown is part of the Troup County Work Release Program. However, he failed to return ...

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 ...

KENTWOOD, La. — The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office (TPSO) says a work release inmate who walked off a job site on Thursday morning is back in custody. Officials said they will release additional ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) — The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said it’s looking for an inmate who “walked off” from a work release program Friday. Patrick Osbourne, 24, was last seen around 10:30 a.m.

On a special episode (first released on January 9, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: The practice of profiting from prison labor, both inside prisons and outside for private industries is complex and ...

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 ...