Tennessee Higher Education Initiative grants inmates college degrees to help reduce reincarceration.

A new study sought to determine the effects of a college-in-prison program, the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). The study found a large and significant reduction in recidivism rates across racial groups ...

Judge Phil Naumoff hopes his reentry court can help the formerly incarcerated residents of Richland County find stability. At a recent reentry court graduation in Mansfield, two men stepped up to the ...

Yavapai County has become the first area to implement the ignite program for detention center inmates to access daily, tailor ...

For over two years now, the Summit County Sheriff’s Department has attempted to craft a novel police force. One that operates in the space where mental health struggles and and law enforcement collide ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County needs a new main jail — but not until an effective anti-recidivism program has been funded and deployed, a civil panel of local residents found in a new analysis. Each ...

When Pulaski County resident Bryan Burrow declined a judge's offer of 30 years behind bars, he was seeking a second chance in the state's criminal justice system where nearly half of those released ...