Work release

Work release programs allow selected individuals who have been sentenced to spend time in jails, prisons, and halfway houses to work at jobs in the community. These individuals generally return to more supervised settings after work hours. Countries routinely using work release programs include the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Portugal, India, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Due to its unusually large prison population and widespread use of work release programs, the United States has the highest number of inmates participating in work release. In recent years, work release is one of the programs that both state and federal prisons have used to deal with prison overcrowding.

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