Emergency room admissions for people overdosing in Palm Beach County decreased by 19% as the county launches a new online dashboard and prepares for a "state-of-the-art Crisis Center for Mental Health ...

These days, it’s not a good time to be a public building past prime in downtown Terre Haute, with several demolition projects ...

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has warned local government chairmen in Nigeria not to get involved in the diversion of funds for ...

EVANSTON — “I don’t answer to the state; I answer to the people of Uinta County. If I see an unpaid bill of $700,000, I’m going to go after it,” Uinta County Sheriff Andy Kopp recently told the Herald ...

Atlanta's Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative has been offering alternative services to help residents in need avoid criminal charges and jail time. The organization suspended services ...

PAD provides what are known as jail diversion services, which keeps people in Atlanta who face arrest from going to jail and provides resources to help them with social services instead.

Atlanta’s jail diversion program resumed services today, Jan. 6, after a months-long contract dispute with Mayor Andre Dickens’ office was resolved. Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative (PAD), ...

The messy saga over who will provide jail diversion services in Atlanta ended last week, after an online back-and-forth between the city and the nonprofit that's led the effort for years. Why it ...

Pipe dream? Illusion? Delusion? False hope? Pie in the sky? Or a new Oklahoma County Detention Center? It depends on who you ...

At any given time, Judge Shukura Ingram handles about 250 cases involving defendants deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial. That’s in addition to her normal caseload as a superior court judge.

All four candidates for District 1 Oklahoma County commissioner said the jail is the first thing they want to fix. The seat ...