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Egg boxes are your friend. In my previous workplace we used to have lots of mice everywhere. When caught, they were fine as long as they had an enclosed space to be in. It was the fully open areas they aren't used to. We used to capture them and when we released them, we put them into egg boxes. It provided them the security they needed in their new environment, to get brave enough to venture out at their pace on their own. But then, we also had people who just used to stamp on them with big boots.
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Just found this thread, a couple of weeks after having to deal with a mouse infestation in my kitchen.
The fuckers had got into a plastic tub full of bulk bags of grains & lentils, then colonised a shelving unit and turned it into a multi-storey hotel/restaurant complex.
Panic-bought some Amazon 'humane' traps without doing any research. Traps were highly effective, catching 3-6 little shits per day... Releasing them was interesting.
Cycled to a park a mile away to set them free. The first one decided to run across an exposed car park instead of under a bush and got instantly swooped on and munched by a bloody MAGPIE.
A few passed without incident, until one ran straight into the gob of a yummy-mummy's dog in front of her kids, and another two flung themselves off a bridge, into a freezing brook, and floated away.
I think I'll get instant-kill traps if they ever come back...