Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.
A new program to help connect inmates to those who want to encourage them, called Adopt and Inmate, is underway.
More than one dozen inmates at Iron County Jail recently celebrated their progress in a program designed to help them find gainful employment after incarceration.
Nine inmates within the Troup County Jail graduated from the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program this week. The Inside Out ...
Summit County Sheriff Kandy Fatheree (center) cuts the ribbon to launch the Inmate Growth Naturally and Intentionally Through Education program at the Summit County Jail with state and county ...
NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC ) — According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 95 percent of people in jail will return to the community. However, according to a 2017 RAND Corporation study, inmates ...
Officials say the goal of moving about 150 inmates out of the jail has been met, but overcrowding remains due to slow indictments and inmate transfer delays.