Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EBENSBURG, Pa. – The last time the Cambria County Prison had a K9 officer was likely in the 1970s at the Old Stone Jail, but ...

Content warning: Discussions of abuse and sexual assault. 1."I worked in a state prison for 26 years. What I've learned is that 1) Respect works both ways. 2) Listening is more important than talking.

Jacob Rocha spends his days working inside a warehouse surrounded by heavy machinery and wood, tucked in the Rocky Mountains. “Learned the machines, worked my way up, everything just kind of fell in ...

We examined the injustices of prison labor nationwide — and lay the foundation for a more equitable path forward. Our nation incarcerates more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and ...

Dozens of people incarcerated in Maine are allowed to have laptops and hold down remote jobs. In some cases, they're making upwards of $60,000 a year. People in prison work all kinds of jobs. They're ...

Talib Muwahhid has a knack for woodworking, and over the years, he’s tinkered with a variety of different projects. “I was making things like little chess sets and storage boxes and stuff out of ...

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People in prison work all kinds of jobs. They’re dishwashers, custodians, kitchen workers and landscapers. Wages for these inmates are extremely low. The average minimum pay is $0.13 an hour, ...