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The Labor Department will hand out $5 million in grants to fund job centers for people coming out of jails, part of a broader Obama administration initiative to help reduce recidivism, NPR has [...]

  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) — The Arkansas Department of Corrections opened the state’s first reentry facility. The goal is to provide training and resources for prisoners before [...]

The number of accused and convicted criminal offenders in the United States who are monitored with ankle bracelets and other electronic tracking devices rose nearly 140 percent over 10 years, [...]

Across the country, a critical shortage of state psychiatric beds is forcing mentally ill patients with severe symptoms to be held in emergency rooms, hospitals and jails while they wait for a [...]