Reason

Puerto Rican Prisons Allowed Inmates To Work for Themselves. It Was a Huge Success.

People associate the words prison labor with coercion and exploitation, with inmates paid peanuts to do menial work for the government or its contractors. If you hear that phrase, you probably don't ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wisconsin corrections officials don’t track how many prisoners participate in work release

This story was produced andoriginally published by Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom. It was made possible bydonors like you. Most of the jobs available to Wisconsin prisoners are ...
East Oregonian

Pendleton prison job fair connects inmates with potential employers

PENDLETON — With Oregon’s recidivism rate nearing its lowest point in decades, nearly 30 employers on Aug. 1 stepped inside the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton for the prison’s ...
LAist

Prison health workers are among the best-paid public employees. Why are so many jobs vacant?

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Despite spending hundreds of millions ...
The New York Times

Prison Kitchen Job Apparently Helped Ex-Police Chief Escape, Officials Say

A job in a prison kitchen apparently helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief serving time for murder and rape, plot his escape by fashioning a makeshift police uniform, Arkansas prison officials ...
KSLA

Workers at federal prison in Texarkana worried about their jobs

TEXARKANA, Texas (KSLA) — There are 195 people working at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana who are also part of the American Federation of Government Employees union. Union leaders at ...