More than 300 people detained for low-level offenses in Harris County have been diverted away from incarceration and into mental health treatment programs since January, according to the district ...

Californians accused of crimes can receive mental health treatment rather than prison time. Lawmakers are revamping the rules ...

The figures are staggering. At least 2 million people with mental illness are booked into local jails every year. Some 750 of the approximately 3,500 people incarcerated in the Bexar County Adult ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- A program meant to get detainees out of the Washington County jail and into classes and programs to help them stay out is already exceeding expectations, according to the program's ...

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 ...

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

The Penobscot County Jail’s overflowing population has for years forced the county to board inmates out to other facilities in the state. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN Penobscot County will use an ...

MADISON, Wis. -- A Madison woman that was reported absent without leave Friday from the Jail Diversion Program has been taken into custody, the Dane County Sheriff's Office said in an Friday night ...