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 ...

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 ...

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.

Alabama’s work-release program is the latest chapter in a long history of systems that make use of captive labor. After slavery was abolished, Alabama came to operate the most profitable ...

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, ...

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 ...

UPDATE: Thursday, February 19, 2026 @ 2:04 p.m. | BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — According to Andy Malinoski with the West Virginia Division of Corrections, 42-year-old Jason Eddie Pittman remains on the loose.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garden City Republican Sen. Bill Clifford, right, voted for legislation banning certain people on the state's sex offender ...