And Tazewell County began a pretrial diversion program through its state's attorney's office in 1974, long before the term "therapeutic jurisprudence" was coined.Today, according to State's Attorney Stewart Umholtz's web-site, Tazewell's deferred prosecution program "continues to supervise non-violent adult misdemeanor and felony first offenders that are screened by the Taze-well… [read post]