Atlanta Jail Diversion Program Faces Uncertainty During Contract Fight - Capital B News - Atlanta
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A contract dispute has resulted in the Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative suspending suspending operations at the city’s diversion center.
Get Black Atlanta’s biggest stories of the week delivered to your inbox every Saturday for free! Tanesha Door said she doesn’t know where she would be today without the Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative and its case managers helping her to get her life back on track. Door, an Atlanta-native and Grady Hospital baby, moved back to Atlanta in 2018 with her infant son less than a year after leaving the Navy and divorcing her ex-husband. But the family support she expected to come home to never materialized. Within 12 months, she was homeless and had to send her son to live with his fa
