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

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

As Sarasota County grapples with a burgeoning jail population, debating a $700 million expansion, programs seek to curb ...

Future generations will judge Governor Green’s legacy. Will the governor choose to mortgage our future on a super jail that will fiscally hamper the state and result in more residents, disparately ...

Washington County officials have approved a resolution to apply for a $1.5 million grant to expand the Community Rebuilding Initiative by repurposing the former women’s jail in downtown Fayetteville.

Dallas County officials have labeled the jail a state of emergency, and they are looking as far as Miami-Dade County Florida for potential solutions.

Jail was the best place for someone like ."Sheriff Jim Cooper claims the mental health diversion program is being used as a loophole to get people out of jail.| MORE | Man arrested in deadly Fair ...

Telenovela star William Levy was accepted into a misdemeanor diversion program after his arrest on disorderly intoxication ...

Levy was arrested in April after allegedly being found "highly intoxicated and causing a disturbance" at a Florida restaurant ...

The State Auditors of Public Accounts found that a program designed to allow for prosecutorial diversion in family violence cases did not use state-sanctioned treatment providers for offenders, as ...

The program offers first-time misdemeanor offenders an opportunity to avoid a criminal record by completing specific ...

A domestic dispute that ended up outside of the Linn County Sheriff's Office and Jail resulted in an Albany woman pleading ...