The DeKalb County Commission discussed a resolution that would have the county police department create a new policy focused ...

Three years ago, L.A. County created Espinoza’s office to oversee just such a diversion program for homeless inmates. Now there is momentum to expand it, but the details remain a work in progress.

This bill isn’t about improving public safety, it’s about doubling-down on the criminalization of those most in need of care.

So far, conversations around who would be eligible for the new diversion center have stopped at nonviolent misdemeanors—75 percent of those needing mental health care in the jail are currently ...

The Mental Health Jail Diversion Center opened in 2022 to answer that question. An alternative to jail. Center director Mark Tittle gave a tour of the building while preparing to welcome nine more ...

The Cascade County Detention Center had a population of 415 on the morning of Oct. 1. The stated capacity of the jail, built around 25 years ago, is 372. Overcrowding isn’t a new issue at the ...

Washington County officials have approved a resolution to apply for a $1.5 million grant to expand the Community Rebuilding ...

600 plus eligible non-violent or low-level crime offenders would move out of the jail to supervised residential treatment facilities.

People have been pushing for criminal-justice reform ever since footage of police brutally murdering George Floyd swept the nation in mid-2020. While some ...

Fairmount residents listen to information about the Tarrant County Mental Health Jail Diversion Center during a community meeting on Oct. 28, 2024, at Arts Fifth Avenue in Fort Worth.

Police diversion programs do exist and they are not new. In 2011, Seattle launched Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion as a pilot program in the downtown neighborhood of Belltown. Through LEAD ...