We’re all taught crime doesn’t pay, but some lawmakers in Colorado’s Legislature apparently didn’t learn that lesson. They propose to hand $3,000 in cash to ex-cons leaving prison. Yes, really. Senate ...

He wanted a fresh slice of jail time. A freed convict said he robbed an Arizona Domino’s pizza shop just to get delivered ...

Helping former inmates does more then rebuild lives destroyed by crime, say administrators of Catholic Charities? Maryland Re-entry Partnership? it saves taxpayers the cost of prosecuting them for ...

In 2015, I was in Memphis, Tennessee. I had been invited to speak to a group of young people about making positive life choices. That morning, while getting dressed in my hotel room around 7 a.m., I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lindy Jones, 41, the ex-con driver who brazenly admitted to cops, "I shoot people" after his passenger shot and killed hero NYPD ...

In this kitchen, justice is served – and finely chopped. Nearly a dozen ex-cons graduated Monday from the city’s Department of Probation’s inaugural culinary-skills program, part of a range of new ...

EXCLUSIVE: Landing a good-paying "second-chance" job is one of the biggest challenges reformed ex-convicts face when trying to reintegrate into society, former New York Giants safety and humanitarian ...

A violent ex-con accused of shooting an NYPD cop while on parole during a tense four-hour standoff flashed a sinister smirk as he was hit with an attempted murder indictment in Manhattan Supreme Court ...