Policy Center: Public Policy

Building a new consensus on California prison policy

The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association are co-hosting an unprecedented series of policy discussions in Sacramento with some of the state’s leading correctional experts to help forge a consensus on future corrections policy.  With the continued deterioration of conditions in the state’s prisons, a new urgency has emerged

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Let Our Kids Shoot Back

Let Our Kids Shoot Back!

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BP Oil - The Plot (and oil) Thickens

 

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BP Oil Spill – Where’s the Arrest?

Where is the arrest warrant?  Where is the indictment?  An ordinary economic crime – burglary, auto theft – gets immediate attention, cops putting handcuffs on suspects, booking at the local jail, an appearance in court.<

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Fabricating Arizona’s “Immigrant Crime Wave”

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

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Drug Abuse Is Now California’s Leading Cause of Premature Death

In 1980, before California and the United States embarked on a massive “War on Drugs” to arrest and imprison rising tens of thousands of drug users, a total of 1,480 residents died from overdoses or chronic abuse of illicit drugs. That constituted 7.7% of the state’s death toll from all external causes (that is, accidents, suicides, murders, and violent deaths of undetermined intent).

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CJCJ Exposes Inaccurate Media Reports

Recently, CJCJ has cultivated many policy reports and articles surrounding issues within the juvenile justice system.  Through these recent publications CJCJ exposes inaccurate media reports through the utilization of data and policy analysis.

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CJCJ Supports SB 399

Senate Bill 399 is the California Fair Sentencing for Youth Act introduced by Senator Leland Yee.

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CJCJ Opposes AB 2141

Congratulations to Patti Lee and Jeff Adachi of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office for their tireless effort in defeating AB 2141.

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Public Relations and the California Youth Corrections System

Daniel Macallair, MPA, Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, article titled “Wasting Tax Dollars: Public Relations and the California Youth Corrections System” was recently featured in the California Progress Report.

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