Prison to prosperity: How a non-profit is creating opportunities for people re-entering society
Channel 9′s Erica Bryant found a local non-profit in Charlotte offering training and funding to those re-entering society ...
Fighting for the rights of the incarcerated has been her lifelong pursuit
In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...
Elizabeth Holmes dishes on ‘hell and torture’ of prison life in first interview since fraud conviction
Holmes is serving a reduced sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas for fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse ...
‘I was lost’: Paving a better path for those leaving prison
At the end of 2012, he was sent to a prerelease program in Boston, where he had to find a job with no cellphone and no ...
Changing prison culture and people’s lives through prison newspapers
They were prospective applicants for CCWF’s pioneering new newspaper, put together in a newsroom next door, and Vasquez told ...
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Incarcerated firefighters do risky, low-pay work. Many say it's the best job behind bars.
Some firefighters said that the work has a higher degree of prestige compared to other prison jobs. Perhaps the most common ...
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Health care is key for youths getting out of prison. A new law helps them get it
It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated ...
Worcester organization that helps formerly incarcerated people left out of Healey budget
The well-stocked pantry can members and their families get past a financial rough patch; a supply closet can help them ...
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Lamont proposes criminal justice cuts: free messages for CT inmates, public defender access at stake
The governor signed off on it. Now we're killing it? The whole point was to help incarcerated people stay connected with their families." Jeff Beckham, the governor's budget chief, said ...
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A decade and $600 million later, New York prisons still lack cameras
Beyond deterrence, camera footage can help incarcerated people back up complaints or challenge discipline. Incarcerated people can request to use DOCCS security and body camera video as evidence ...