Diversion and Alternatives to Incarceration

When people go to prison or jail, it disrupts their housing, employment, schooling, and ability to meet family obligations. This costs their families and communities dearly, not only during the time they are in prison or jail, but afterward, when people often must rebuild their lives from nothing, while shouldering the new disadvantages that come with a history of incarceration.

Community-based services, supervision, and sanctions allow people to take responsibility without these additional harms. The programs offer people tools to address challenges in their lives, such as substance use, the long-term effects of trauma, or educational, or employment deficits. This opens the door to lasting change.

Osborne provides, advocates for, and matches people to alternatives to prosecution, detention, or sentences of incarceration. It is part of our contribution to building a justice system that rejects mass-scale, long-term incarceration, and instead works to achieve equity, healing, and transformation.

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Diversion and Alternatives to Incarceration Programs

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