Prison's today

Volunteers of America, a national nonprofit, spiritually based organization providing local human service programs and opportunities for individual and community involvement, has been a leader in community corrections and corrections reform for more than a century. Maud Booth co-founded Volunteers of America, established the Volunteers Prison League and formed several halfway houses across the nation for offenders returning to the community. As practiced more than a century ago, Volunteers of America believes that all people have value and the potential to become law-abiding and contributing community members, and provides an array of correctional services for more than 58,000 people per year. Many of the local offices providing correctional services deliver intensive residential and nonresidential interventions for higher-risk and higher-need federal, state and local offenders.
Crowding still exists in many parts of the country at the state and local levels -- despite some states rec...