Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State corrections officials said a proposal to require inmates convicted of serious crimes to do hard labor or have 50% more time ...
A work-release program for Alabama prisoners provides labor for corporations and income for the state. Lawsuits are challenging its constitutionality. The Draper Correctional Facility, a ...
Hundreds of inmates joined the firefighters battling the wildfires in Southern California as part of a long-running controversial labor program. The state often relies on incarcerated firefighting ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The sheriff of a rural Tennessee county illegally profited from the work of jail inmates under his supervision and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the prison ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The City of McAlester and Oklahoma Department of Corrections have renewed a partnership which will bring inmate labor crews back ...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - It sounds like a great deal. And, in many ways, it is. Douglas County and Grant County need more affordable housing. So why not hire nonviolent state prison inmates to build it? In ...
State corrections officials said a proposal to require inmates convicted of serious crimes to do hard labor or have 50% more time added to their sentences would require “significant” additional ...