A collaboration between the Springfield-Greene County Health Department and Springfield municipal court that was paused last year could provide alternatives to incarceration for those struggling with ...

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 ...

LOCKPORT – Success stories are relatively rare in a program that tries to keep nonviolent, drug-abusing felons out of prison by compelling them to obtain treatment. State statistics show that in ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Animal shelters across Central Florida continue to report overcrowding. However, Orange County Animal Services has taken a new approach to address the issue that they say is ...

Expanding food scraps diversion programs to include multifamily buildings is a critical step toward reducing landfill-bound waste and increasing equitable access to composting services. While ...

The Competency Diversion Program (“CDP,” below) is qualified good news. Here, and in most of the country, there’s a crisis involving crimes, mostly misdemeanors, committed by the mentally ill. Many ...

LOCKPORT – A woman who entered the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment 15 months ago was declared Friday to have completed the program, and the felony drug case against her ...

Juveniles who successfully complete a 90-day program can see their cases dismissed and avoid a criminal record.

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

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg on Thursday celebrated 10,000 successful cases in which law enforcement routed those with mental illness away from incarceration. Harris County Mental Health ...

Saint Paul's Gun Diversion Program combines accountability with rehabilitation to reduce gun crime and recidivism.