"Community helping community is a really productive way to meet needs," says Jenny Vollen-Katz, executive director of the John Howard Association, the organization behind a new report on peer support ...

Prisons in Virginia and other states have been facing staffing issues for years. Toward the end of 2025, the Virginia Department of Corrections had an 18.6% job vacancy rate overall, but ...

The county’s Reentry Release Center in Camden has peer specialists who connect people to housing, health care and other social services.

Midland County Jail to open recovery pod April 6 for fewer than 15 men with substance use disorders, with treatment, ...

Ontario government rebuffed proposal on licence-plate searches six years before the alleged database breach uncovered by ...

Thirty-five-year-old Salesi Biu Baleikivuya says the rehabilitation programs offered by the Fiji Corrections Service have ...

With an estimated 70% of male and 77% of female inmates in Oregon state prisons said to have substance use disorders, the Oregon Department of Corrections newes ...

Benjamin Brockie, Aaniiih of the Fork Belknap Reservation, served over 22 years of a 67 year sentence for two robberies. As a college student right out of prison, in October 2024, he learned first ...

New Jersey is piloting a program to prevent prison suicides that relies on incarcerated people to observe and report on their ...

Advocates and inmates have complained Nevada Department of Corrections has instituted predatory pricing for using tablets.

The new doula services will operate as a key component of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office Family Support Services Unit ...

Inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary have made a meaningful contribution to the Walla Walla JROTC battalion by donating handmade items for their annual benefit dinner ...