Incarceration devastates thousands of Texans every year with consequences rippling through an individual's entire family, as a mother of three recently testified before the Texas House Corrections ...

House Bill 3186 will allow courts to refer at-risk youth to crime diversion programs before they have been convicted of certain crimes. Before the new law, minors charged with Class C misdemeanors had ...

More people who have a serious mental illness now have the opportunity to have their charges dropped if they volunteer for a ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Since 2017, nearly 15,000 cases in Harris County have been diverted away from the juvenile court system, according to data released by the county. This work has been executed ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The KVUE Defenders are monitoring Travis County's newest effort to address mental health concerns. On Tuesday, county leaders gave the green light to fund its portion of the new crisis ...

FORT SMITH -- Lowered crime rates in Fort Smith could be attributed to court diversion programs, such as the Rise Court, according to law enforcement officials. Pretrial diversion programs are ...

Read full article: Silver Alert issued for missing 67-year-old woman last seen at Spring hotel Teen killed after minibike pursuit with Harris County Sheriff's Office in northeast Houston; crash at ...

Williamson County commissioners have renewed a 911 dispatch diversion agreement aimed at helping first responders’ handling ...

Harris County has rerouted roughly 15,000 young people arrested for nonviolent, misdemeanors to less punitive programs in the past six years, a move District Attorney Kim Ogg said Friday is aimed at ...

A state eviction diversion program launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been extended, according to a new emergency order from the Texas Supreme Court released on Monday. The diversion ...