Lawmakers and local officials are urging the Colorado Joint Budget Committee (JBC) to reconsider a proposal to close the ...

The Last Mile, a national nonprofit, is expanding its web development classes to prisons across the country, including in New England.

A Conservative government would bring in mandatory life sentences for those convicted of trafficking, producing or exporting ...

The Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, jointly run by ... and Los Angeles County Fire Department. The camps are minimum-security facilities at which incarcerated people can volunteer.

He will spend three months in a minimum security prison before heading to a residential program, according to his parole decision. Alfred Therrien became the first Mattis case heard by the state ...

In the federal system, there are four categories of security (minimum ... fully utilizing these programs could significantly alleviate the burden on prison facilities and reduce costs.

Nearly 800 prison inmates have been temporarily ... Those inmates are part of a minimum-security Conservation Camp Program consisting of 35 “fire camps” spread throughout California.

Any inmates who want to join must meet the program’s qualifications ... than 30 “fire camps,” which are essentially minimum security prison camps doubling as firefighter schools.

The firefighters transfer to minimum-security facilities known as ... which would have ended indentured servitude in prison systems. Prison work programs occur in all 50 states and generate ...

As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by ... Two of the camps are for incarcerated women. They are minimum-security facilities staffed with correctional personnel who supervise ...

Unlike some other prison work programs in California ... Volunteers must have minimum custody status, or the lowest security classification, based on their “sustained good behavior in prison ...