If Gov. Kemp's proposed state budget passes, hundreds of millions of dollars would go towards improving Georgia's prison ...

One of the people who escaped the Bibb County Jail in 2023 was sentenced Wednesday to serve eight years for possessing a ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

While the Atlanta City Council approved a renewed contract with the Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative in ...

Under the proposed deal, known as a consent decree, the jail will develop plans to keep people safe from violence, improve ...

The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid ...

The messy saga over who will provide jail diversion services in Atlanta ended last week, after an online back-and-forth ...

The Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative has provided prearrest diversion services to the city since it was founded in 2017.

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"We will have many opportunities to pay tribute to my grandfather," said Jason Carter, the former president's grandson and chair of the Carter Center, during a service in Atlanta. In his life post ...

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), ...

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