As Hawaii struggles to stem homelessness and prison overcrowding, Gov. David Ige wants to take a new approach: connecting people arrested for low-level drug crimes with social services rather than putting them behind bars. It’s a practice that seems to be working elsewhere. Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion started in Seattle in 2011. In that city, police […]
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