Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Participants in a welding program for minimum security inmates are pictured at Southeast Technical College in Sioux Falls on Oct.

Despite the negative impression one might have of the state’s correctional system, highlighted by reports of inmate mistreatment and injuries sustained by prison guards quelling prisoner assaults, ...

County budgets show the sheriff’s roughly $2 million operating budget, not including personnel costs, is about the same as it ...

Some state lawmakers want to see more job training for inmates. Earlier this year, Governor Andy Beshear announced that only 30% of released inmates returned to prison within two years. But state ...

Through Española Humane’s Paws in the Pen program, a partnership with the New Mexico Corrections Department, inmates train shelter dogs, transforming them into highly adoptable dogs. This week on Pet ...