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Prosecutors try to keep people out of pandemic-clogged courts through diversion programs


When Julia Fogelberg was a public defender in St. Louis County, she saw how the criminal justice system could often do more harm than good.
Now working on the prosecutor side, she’s grateful that she can provide a different solution like in the case of a single mother of two she met this summer.
The woman was juggling an at-home virtual school schedule and her job as a paralegal.
With the intense stress of the pandemic, she was also struggling with an addiction to painkillers and was arrested for drug possession.
“If she were charged, that could have implications for the steady job that she’s had for almost 10 years and her ability to have health care options for her children,” said Fogelberg, who now leads the St. Louis County prosecutor’s diversion program. ....

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