Many of the job opportunities offered in federal prisons to boost inmates' chances of finding work after their release are a waste of government resources that do little to keep the public safe, ...

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Incarcerated workers are captive and coerced workers, but prison unionism provides a possible avenue to improve things. A row of prison cells. Credit: Boardhead / Wikimedia Commons Credit: Boardhead / ...

Current and former prisoners in Alabama filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday arguing that the state’s prison labor system amounts to a “modern-day form of slavery” that violates the U.S. and ...

This column is an opinion by Murray Fallis, a Public Interest Articling Fellow with the John Howard Society of Canada where he advocates for the rights of prisoners. For more information about CBC's ...

Agoura Hills, CA, Sept. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over the past seventeen years, inmates at the South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) in Clifton, Tennessee, have restored over 25,000 donated ...

Canadian prison inmates have been building furniture and punching out licence plates for decades but CTV News reports India's apparently just waking up to the potential of an imprisoned labour force.

Nothing makes sense anymore. Mississippi’s Department of Corrections has decided that it is going to cut its prison work program, saying that it will save the agency the $3.2 million it costs to run ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Plans to change the name and make other revisions to work programs in South Dakota’s state prisons are no longer going forward, at least for now. Switching the name from ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — What’s long been known as Pheasantland Industries will have a new name next month. Come November 1, the South Dakota Department of Corrections offender-work programs will be ...