California is making bold moves to dismantle death row at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. This change comes as executions have been halted ...

A first-of-its-kind orientation inside the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center last month helped illuminate what California can do to keep its prison population decreasing if lawmakers approve a budget ...

Enrique Sandoval, Daniel Arciniega and Eleazar Alicantar learn English language skills in class at San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday. In March 2023, Gov. Newsom announced a plan to transform the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A key branch of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is its Rehabilitation Program Division. According to the TDCJ website, “The Rehabilitation Programs Division (RPD) serves ...

Christian ministries are trying to keep alive the idea of rehabilitating prisoners through education programs—and the graduates can return to help other prisoners. (iStock/LightFieldStudios) I ...

When you picture a prison cell, computers, internet connections, and video calls probably aren’t the first things that come to mind. Yet inside the walls of Catalonia’s correctional facilities, ...

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Dawn Marie Johnson said while she is on the Sioux Falls School District School Board, she hopes her volunteer work inside the men’s prison is a big reason she was selected ...

More than 60 percent of the women in Oklahoma's prisons have been identified as in need of substance abuse treatment, but few will be able to enter a program, according to a 2010 state report on ...

For a long time, the idea of rehabilitation programs inside prisons has generated lots of eye-rolling and scorn. We designed our prison system based on a perceived reality that rehabilitation is not ...