Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 11—TRAVERSE CITY — It was mid-October, about 4 p.m., when Deputy Isaac Hearld noticed a car stopped in the median of South ...

In the wake of community backlash, San Jose is shelving a controversial proposal to sell one of its tiny home sites to Santa Clara County for a jail diversion program. Along with thousands signing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sebastian Soto spent most of his adulthood coming and going from jail due to an untreated alcohol addiction. Within 10 years, he ...

As Bexar County officials consider a jail diversion center, Harris County offers a model of success.

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 jail. It ...

The Harris County Sheriff's Department is offering some in Houston a second chance. The Harris County Mental Health Jail Diversion Center is one of the first jail diversion centers in the country. The ...

Californians accused of crimes can receive mental health treatment rather than prison time under a 2018 law. Lawmakers are revamping the rules following reports of violent offenses.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo speaks about the expansion of the county’s Jail-Based Competency Restoration program at the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD on Feb. 9, 2023. Harris County ...

A King County Auditor’s report on programs that offer alternatives to jail for people who have run afoul of the law highlights a fractured system without accountability. There is no way to tell if ...

Tarrant County’s proposed budget for next fiscal year doesn't include funding for the Mental Health Jail Diversion Center, but officials are looking for money to keep the program going. The Diversion ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales shuffled around a packet of papers as she looked over the plans for the new jail diversion center, a center the Nueces County Commissioners ...