diversion

“All we’re doing is keeping those beds in cells warm for their kids,” says the state prison director. These women “need help. They don’t need prison.”

Aaron Robinette, who was featured in an investigation drug diversion programs, died of a heroin overdose at age 25.

Diversion programs administered by CorrectiveSolutions, a for-profit company dogged for years by consumer rights litigation, often have left out those they were designed to help.