A privately owned work-release program in Covington run by close allies of St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain has been closed since March, when an inmate escaped and allegedly kidnapped his ex ...

The work-release program was moved in 2010 to a former youth home building on the west side of County Farm Road because of crowding in the jail. But Mendrick said the situation was never ideal.

OLYMPIA -- Washington's prison system plans to double the state's work-release program over the next decade to more than 1,200 convicts and will try to spread the expansion equitably around the ...

Participants in the work-release program get to keep 35% of what they earn on the job. The jail takes 64% or $451.50, whichever is less, to pay their bills (housing, water, food, transportation ...

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After being shutdown by the pandemic, the work-release program at the Daviess County jail is opening a second pod. "Once the federal government ended the COVID restrictions, ...

State police are looking for an inmate who walked off from a work release program Saturday in Lebanon County.Police are searching for Crystal Connelly.They say she failed to report back to prison ...

Work release programs have been phased out at New Hampshire's county jails, the result of a shift in the criminal justice system that has reduced the number of eligible prisoners.As incarceration ...

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 ...

The Denver Sheriff Department and several other Colorado jails have discontinued work-release programs that were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic as they deal with short staffing.

ALBANY, N.Y. - They face parole hearings soon, but ex-Tyco executives Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz have already left a minimum-security prison in Harlem for clerical jobs and overnights in ...