Category Archives: Decarceration & Diversion

Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple, community members, advocates, and elected officials congregated to hear about alternatives to what has become the de facto solution to our nation's drug problem--mass incarceration. Protestants for the Common good hosted speakers...

A study of Orange County police officers reveals frustration with the state's policy of offering drug offenders treatment in lieu of incarceration. Published in the Criminal Justice Police Review, the study, "'An Absolute Revolving Door': An Evaluation of Police Perception and response to Prop 36" (...

This piece originally appeared at the Huffington Post.  In response to growing concern about violent crime and shrinking budgets, public officials have adopted a number of initiatives to prioritize use of scarce resources. And despite an ordinance requiring a cooperative approach to diversion of of...