In California, incarcerated people become firefighters, but the low pay — and few job prospects when they're out — can make it a difficult choice.

Hundreds of incarcerated people are firefighting in Los Angeles. They usually make up to $10.24 a day, and receive an additional $1 for each hour that they battle the deadly blazes.

The Middlesex Sheriff’s Office has just become the first in the state of Massachusetts to install a naloxone vending machine, ...

Called Connecting Families, it's part of a national effort by Worth Rises, a New York-based advocacy group focused on decarceration.

Persevere, a program piloted last year in the Florida Department of Corrections, teaches eligible inmates to become ...

As a result of her actions, many female staff at the prison had reported an increase in being "hit on" by inmates and were ...