Michael Morrison stands in the game room of The Spare Time Bowling venue where he works in Trussville, Alabama on Thursday February 29, 2024. Michael is a graduate of a local diversion program ...

ORANGE AND OSCEOLA HAS PROMISED TO SUSPEND SOME PRETRIAL DIVERSION PROGRAMS, WHICH HELPS FIRST TIME OFFENDERS AVOID CONVICTIONS AND CRIMINAL RECORDS. BUT WESH 2 NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GREG BOX ...

An effort to reduce recidivism and the costs of incarcerating offenders has steadily grown in Winnebago County to the point that more than 1,000 people a year participate in a dozen different pre- and ...

Williamson County commissioners have renewed a 911 dispatch diversion agreement aimed at helping first responders’ handling ...

With increasing calls involving mental and behavioral health needs, three local police departments have teamed up to add a mental health jail diversion program. Northborough, Southborough and ...

The Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court is launching a program to divert newly arrested people with mental illness from the justice system to treatment.

After about a year and a half of bouncing in and out of courthouses with motions being filed, we can now look to the future ...

Around 19 months later, the first person to enter Recovery Court, meant to get people into treatment, not jail, has completed the program.

The program, created 14 years ago by DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Asha Jackson, works with participants arrested on ...

If we are going to have a DUII diversion program, we could do more to ensure people are able to participate and that it ...

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