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.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Last spring, jail officials found an unresponsive inmate face-down in a cell near a toilet. Correctional ...

Two additional inmates have reached out in the past week to the U.S. District Court in Johnstown as a way to address their grievances with living conditions in the Blair County Prison. One of the ...

Nine inmates within the Troup County Jail graduated from the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program this week. The Inside Out ...

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 ...

HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Keeping vulnerable people from sitting in a cell is how Hays County leaders bill the Jail-Based Competency Restoration (JBCR) Program approved Tuesday by Hays County ...