Greenfield City Council has approved acceptance of a $500,000 state grant to expand local services for at-risk youth.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A discussion of the effectiveness of alternatives to incarceration (ATI). Authors Alan Vinegard, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District, and Zora Franicevic summarize data from the last 20 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...