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MARTA underscores safety improvements as questions swirl around feds stepping in

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By Chamian Cruz Verified
| WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA) Verified
MARTA’s chief maintains that the transit system is safe and secure following several high-profile violent incidents. In letters to the Federal Transit Administration and Georgia House and Senate leaders on Wednesday, MARTA Interim General Manager and CEO Jonathan Hunt reiterated that the agency has reduced crime, hired more police officers and modernized the system.
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Graduation day at Atlanta's jail marks a new chapter for women in recovery

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By Chamian Cruz Verified
| WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA) Verified
Inside the Atlanta City Detention Center, some incarcerated women are finding their voices and building community through a program aimed at helping them not come back. More than a dozen women wearing different colored caps and gowns over their jail uniforms and orange slides celebrated the end of the four-month program called New Beginnings on Tuesday. It addresses substance use, mental health and other barriers to reentry.
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Facing another contract dispute, Atlanta's PAD halts operations at Diversion Center

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By Chamian Cruz Verified
| WABE-FM (Atlanta, GA) Verified
Amid growing questions over whether local cities are adequately addressing mental illness following a series of apparently random knife attacks, another contract dispute involving Atlanta’s Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative has once again hampered its response. For nearly a decade, PAD has offered an alternative to arrest in cases where police officers determine that a law violation is related to mental health, substance use, homelessness or extreme poverty.
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