Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, inmate Kay Cain, Dennis (age 18 months), Correctional Officer Karen Boyer and inmate Destiny Hogan, at the ...

"Education is liberation and your freedom is what I want to celebrate this morning,” said commencement speaker Bryan ...

Green prison programs essentially provide a form of nature-based therapy to prisoners under the guidance of trained professionals. Prisoners typically engage in gardening and horticultural activities, ...

There are a handful of states that actually house incarcerated military veterans together. The prison system in Washington state is one of them. Corrections officials say it's an easier way to manage ...

Project 180, serving Sarasota and DeSoto counties, is raising funds for its first-ever residential program for women leaving ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A prison seminary program is one of the first priorities for the new head of South Dakota’s state corrections system. South Dakota Department of Corrections Secretary Nick ...

The tablets’ content offer basic education, vocational courses, resume building, job training and reentry preparation.

Piedmont Virginia Community College is expanding its prison education program, thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation. The Higher Education in Prison program serves approximately 120 ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program (BCPEP), the state’s largest higher education program for people who are incarcerated, will expand to offer college classes to women at the Massachusetts ...

The Boston College Prison Education Program, already the largest higher education prison program in the state, is expanding to serve women incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in ...