Executive Director Rick Raemisch explains how the Colorado Department of Corrections keeps citizens safe while making sure inmates have opportunities to learn skills before re-entering society.
Choirs from the Denver Women's Correctional Facility and Limon Correctional Facility recorded special pieces for the International Corrections and Prisons Association Host Country Day.
Through a Kenyan prison service revolving fund inmates are now receiving training and formal education to equip them with the capabilities to become self sufficient entrepreneurs when they are released from prison.
Research shows the more educated a person is the less likely they are to commit a crime. The Mobile County Jail and a local nonprofit are proving the same goes for those who have already committed them.