Research has shown that stable employment after incarceration dramatically reduces the likelihood of someone reoffending.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, inmate Kay Cain, Dennis (age 18 months), Correctional Officer Karen Boyer and inmate Destiny Hogan, at the ...

SUNY is expanding its Higher Education in Prison program.The program is currently offered at 24 correctional facilities. SUNY ...

Green prison programs essentially provide a form of nature-based therapy to prisoners under the guidance of trained professionals. Prisoners typically engage in gardening and horticultural activities, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A prison seminary program is one of the first priorities for the new head of South Dakota’s state corrections system. South Dakota Department of Corrections Secretary Nick ...

Advocates are frustrated by the slow progress on creating a mother-infant program for women in Wisconsin prisons; the DOC ...

A Northwestern College faculty member briefed the South Dakota Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force on Wednesday about ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program, already the largest higher education prison program in the state, is expanding to serve women incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program (BCPEP), the state’s largest higher education program for people who are incarcerated, will expand to offer college classes to women at the Massachusetts ...