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 ...

HOW THIS PROGRAM WORKS. FOR A COMPANY THAT MAKES BOXES, ATLAS CONTAINER CORP IS REALLY THINKING OUTSIDE OF ONE. BY HIRING INMATES TO THE WORK RELEASE PROGRAM AND PAYING THEM THE SAME AS OTHER ...

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 ...

A Maryland company is filling a need and providing opportunities by hiring inmates at its packaging plant in Severn. Atlas Container Corp., which makes boxes, is really thinking outside of the box by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of the jobs available to Wisconsin prisoners are paid not in dollars, but cents. Minimum wage laws don’t apply behind bars, so some people scrub toilets for less than a quarter an hour. But one ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate voted to approve legislation forbidding adults on the state’s offender registry for sexually assaulting a person under the age of 16 from participating in work-release ...