A program to train formerly incarcerated individuals to obtain commercial driver licenses is part of $2.59 million in grants recently awarded in Massachusetts across 14 organizations. “These grants ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced nearly $7 million in funding for reentry training and employment programs in Newport News and Roanoke. $6,999,632 has been granted in ...

Hundreds of jobs are going unfilled in the Altoona area, and because of that, Blair County Commissioner Bruce R. Erb said he is supporting a new program to redirect the lives of young adults, age 18 ...

Service members discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” must be accepted for re-enlistment and complete re-entry training to obtain the appropriate rank. Once “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is repealed, ...

As businesses search for prospective employees, state corrections officials say they're working to prepare incarcerated job seekers with the skills needed to help meet that need. Alex Earls, re-entry ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) aims to help recently released inmates stay out of prison by providing immediate paid employment and skills training. “How I see it, ...

An Omaha senator wants to make changes to the state's parole board. He says board members need to show up more often and he wants some of them to have first-hand experience in the system. An Omaha ...

A couple of people in or around what I'll call the corrections community--not that they're in prison, but that they're in the incarceration business--have been trying for weeks to get me to add ...