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 ...

North Dakota DOCR Director Colby Braun joins Shining Light staff and the first Academy cohort at Missouri River Correctional Center — to reflect on the journey and the impact the program has in their ...

When it comes to reducing mass incarceration, some solutions are actually staring us right in the face. That is certainly the case when it comes to diversion programs in the state of Kansas. Although ...

New York’s revolving-door justice for serial perps extends far beyond the no-bail law: “Diversion” programs are yet another way progressives keep dangerous offenders from facing serious consequences — ...

State lawmakers have moved a proposal to standardize and expand programs that divert children to alternatives to the criminal justice system after they’re arrested. Supporters say the approach yields ...

When former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner entered a federal diversion program to avoid prosecution last month, she was the beneficiary of the exact type of program she let fall to pieces in her own ...

This article is part of the Mental Health Collaborative, a project completed by nine North Carolina college newsrooms to cover mental health issues in their communities. To read more stories about ...

A new bill in the California Legislature would block violent criminals from accessing mental health diversion programs to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oklahoma lawmakers on Monday were told resources for jail diversion programs are less available for rural counties in comparison ...

KING COUNTY, Wash. — On the heels of the announcement of what King County's Executive is calling "100 Days of Action" against youth gun violence, a member of the county council said he believes a ...

Countless conservatives and certain sectors of the media are fuming over the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office’s decision to seek diversion in the case of a man charged with vandalizing several Teslas ...