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By Jennifer Roberts Mar. 22, 2022 FLORENCE COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - A new workforce opportunity is helping to give people recently released from prison the fresh start they need. Lewis Tree Service came up with the idea to start ‘The Energy Industry Second Chance Pil...

Jussie Smollett's new mug shot after beginning his 150-day jail sentence. (Photo: Cook County Sheriff's Office) March 10, 2022 Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months of probation for staging a hate crime against himself. The actor — ...

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said inmates were transferred to other facilities and that officials worked to find jobs for employees at other facilities or other state agencies March 10, 2022 Six correctional facilities in upstate New York wer...

Erik Eck, a former member of the Latin Kings gang stands in the doorway of his cell at the DuPage County, Ill., Jail displaying tattoos that symbolize his status with the gang, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Wheaton, Ill. Under penalty of a beating or death, Eck pledged when he joined the...

The 24-hour station is recorded and produced by inmates inside Limon, Sterling and Denver prisons Limon Correctional Facility inmate Darrius Turner, 32, pictured on March 1, 2022, has been in prison since age 19 for second-degree murder and now works at the first statewide ...

Part of the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida. | Reinhold Matay/AP Photo By ROBERT BARTON 02/10/2022 Robert Barton is a D.C. resident serving a sentence of 30 years to life, currently at the U.S. penitentiary in Coleman, Florida, which is...

January 13, 2022 By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will begin transferring thousands of inmates out of federal prisons this week as part of a sweeping criminal justice overhaul signed by President Donald Trump more than three ye...

Jan. 11, 2022 By Jeff Goldman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com A former inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey admitted Monday he was part of a group that used drones to smuggle phones, tobacco and other items inside the minimum-security facility. Johansel Moronta,...

Shaka Senghor, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, in 2016. Photograph: Joshua Bright/The Guardian January 3, 2021 By Lolly Bowean - The Guardian As Shaka Senghor was serving 19 years in prison for murder, a letter from his father gave him the ...