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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

A work-release inmate who walked away from a Louisiana job assignment in September was arrested at a Jackson homeless camp. Christopher Delcambre, 51, was taken into custody on Monday by the U.S.