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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...