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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 [...]

An unlikely coalition of Nashville businesses, social service and advocacy groups is launching an effort to reform criminal justice in Tennessee, where the incarceration rate is 11 percent higher [...]

  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 [...]

For Immediate Release: Sept. 8, 2016 Media Contact: Monica Hook, VP Strategic Marketing 561-999-7520 or mhook@geocareinc.com  BOULDER, Colo.— Sept. 8, 2016—BI Incorporated, a national provider of [...]

OLYMPIA — The state Department of Corrections (DOC) is conducting a broad review to make sure offenders are serving the right amount of prison and community-supervision time. DOC Acting Secretary [...]

In 2009, Texas’ Bexar County — the sixth-fastest growing county in the United States — had a problem: The Bexar County Jail was beyond capacity. At that time, about 4,700 inmates were held [...]