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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - Police are asking for help searching for a woman who escaped her work release program. Naomi Christine Olin was serving a sentence for assault while participating in a felony, ...

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 ...

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 ...

HE REMAINS FREE ON BOND. IF CONVICTED, DIBIASE FACES POTENTIAL PRISON TIME ON EACH COUNT. AN INMATE WHO ESCAPED FROM LOUISIANA HAS BEEN FOUND IN JACKSON. THE TANGIPAHOA PARISH SHERIFF S OFFICE SAYS ...