Preliminary studies suggest that innovative programs could improve prison conditions and outcomes after release.

The 15th annual National Conference on Higher Education in Prison helped educators share best practices but also discuss ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

After his complaint, volunteer Michael Fesser said the prison temporarily suspended his re-entry program Going Home II and ...

The William James Association, which has been in state prisons for half a century, is fighting to keep its classes going ...

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 ...

Every state and territory must have these programs, but as was recently revealed in New South Wales, they’re often ...