For the fifth year in a row, Sheriff Douglas Mullendore is asking the Washington County, Maryland, commissioners for funding to start a home detention program of day-reporting center for drug offenders. According to the sheriff, about 97 percent of the total crimes in the county are committed
Read moreSome prisons in Alabama are housing over 200 percent of their capacity of inmates. This has caused the state legislature to take measures to address the problem, but local law enforcement authorities feel the plan is unfair to victims.
The reform plans include:
Creation of a new category
Read moreResearch by the University of Minnesota is helping improve the experience for kids who visit a parent incarcerated in Washington County Jail in Stillwater. Plans are underway to use some of the same ideas in Dakota County, as well as Dane and Racine counties in Wisconsin, which were
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