LAFOURCHE PARISH, La. — When Douglas Caldwell became an inmate at the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex a year ago, he had no direction. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life when I ...

CUSHING - Lawuan Shivers is doing a life sentence for a bank robbery, but videotaping a Christmas message to his 9-year-old son brought him to tears. "It felt really good to be able to give him a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Corrections partnered with The Messages Project to connect inmates at four facilities with their children. Recently, VADOC partnered with the The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state prison system collected at least $1.25 million in fees from inmates and their families for phone and messaging services ...