Congratulations to Executive Director Daniel Macallair, who has been awarded the California Wellness Foundation Sabbatical Program Award for 2011!  This leadership support program is now in its ninth year and aims to provide an opportunity for rejuvenation and promote the health of valuable leaders in the nonprofit health and human services sector.

"I look forward to spending three months finishing my book on the Calfornia juvenile justice system."

~ CJCJ Executive Director Daniel Macallair

Mr. Macallair is speaking today at the TCWF Conference on Violence Prevention, Friday, November 18, 2011 at 11 am, alongside David Muhammad, Alameda County Chief Probation Officer, and Marjorie Rist, Yolo County Chief Probation Officer, on a panel entitled, California Corrections Realignment: Impacts & Opportunities.  The panel will be moderated by James Bell, Founder and Executive Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute.

~ CJCJ Senior Research Fellow, Mike Males

Listen to this excellent podcast by Prison Photography's Pete Brook, interviewing CJCJ's Executive Director Daniel Macallair on the history of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice and the evolution of criminal and juvenile justice in California.

 I agree with Randy Shelden 99% of the time and respect his views, but I argue his blog  on Proposition 19, as well as other commentaries such as the

Proposition 19, California’s initiative that would legalize marijuana, is opposed by the majority of the citizens, according to the latest polls, as reported in the

The most fundamental disagreement between drug policy reformers and drug warriors such as Office of National Drug Control Policy chief Gail Kerlikowske—who is warning that the federal government may sue to overturn California’s Proposition 19 should the initiative to legalize adult possession of small quantities of marijuana pass on November 2—is what constitutes "the problem.”

Regardless of the outcome of the November election, Proposition 19’s strong

Two provocative papers issued by CJCJ this month find that despite racial progress in other areas, American authorities’ historical campaign to associate taboo drugs, particularly marijuana, with “Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos,” and other minorities (U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics Harry Anslinger, 1936) remains powerful in 2010.

Fox News Channel’s Bill O'Reilly (among others, including prominent Republicans such as Sarah Palin) has repeatedly blamed Arizona’s “500,000 illegal aliens” for (in O’Reilly’s words) bringing a crime wave in Arizona, particularly Phoenix, that is “overwhelming… dangerous… through the roof,” creating social chaos” so “desperate” and “dangerous,” that the state

Today is April 20, 2010, also known as 4/20.  Many consider today an unofficial holiday: National Marijuana Day.

Since today is 4/20, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) thought no other day would be more appropriate to educate people on the fiscal and legal implications of legalizing marijuana in California.