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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON – House Bill 3186, the legislation is known as the Texas Youth Diversion and Early Intervention Act, will go into effect on Jan. 1. This law would allow judges to decide earlier on in the ...

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 ...

Harris County officials on Thursday said they fear new state legislation and gaps in the county’s budget could hinder their strides to significantly reduce the population of the Harris County Jail — ...

Williamson County commissioners have renewed a 911 dispatch diversion agreement aimed at helping first responders’ handling of mental health-related calls in Tuesday's court meeting.

Expanding food scraps diversion programs to include multifamily buildings is a critical step toward reducing landfill-bound waste and increasing equitable access to composting services. While ...