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.

Until last year, the work release program was little more than part-time jail operated by the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office under the moniker of Community Corrections.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

ODOC's Work Release Program helps formerly incarcerated people reenter society. By partnering with employers and offering rehabilitation services, ...