Needle and syringe programs are a proven public health intervention that provide free, sterile injecting equipment to people who use drugs. By reducing needle sharing, these programs help prevent the ...

Initiatives like ours do more than provide access to high-quality education — they also provide a pathway for reimagining more effective and humane responses to crime and incarceration. As thousands ...

A new Australian-first study from the Burnet Institute has found that every dollar invested in Australian prison needle and syringe programs could save more than two dollars in treatment costs for ...

Canada’s prison needle exchange programs (PNEPs) not only reduce bloodborne infections but also are cost-effective, according to a new study. The results suggest that every dollar invested in current ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EBENSBURG – Cambria County Prison Warden Kurt Wolford's report to the prison board Wednesday highlighted voluntary treatment ...

(SOUTH DAKOTA SEARCHLIGHT) - For the past five years, conversations about prisons and how to manage them have played out as one tumultuous bout of realignment and soul-searching after another for ...

Former inmate and prison reform advocate Ginny Burton has begun a 300-mile walk across Washington to raise awareness and ...

In the United States today, approximately 1.8 million people are behind bars, and less than 5 percent of them will complete a college degree, according to recent statistics. This leaves many grappling ...

The program will offer participating prison inmates basic electrical, electrical safety, customer service and OSHA 10 ...