July 23, 2014
Newsroom, Political Landscape—The Chronicle of Social Change highlights advocacy by CJCJ and others to use state funds for local innovative programming-based juvenile justice facilities.
Lizzie Buchen, July 22, 2014
Blog, Social Justice—The story of a single working mother who faces a decade in prison for allowing her daughter to play in a park unsupervised demonstrates our foolish reliance on incarceration and punishment as a way… Continue
Mike Males, July 15, 2014
Blog, Political Landscape—Violence trends make fools of its debaters — or would, if anyone called them to account.
Kate McCracken, July 8, 2014
Blog, Political Landscape—Kate McCracken discusses the upcoming allocation of $80 million dollars in construction funding for juvenile facilities in California, and suggests the state think outside the box.
Mike Males, July 7, 2014
Blog—32,351 Americans died from gunfire in 2011. Nearly half of them were older white men shooting themselves.
Mike Males, July 2, 2014
Blog, Social Justice—A California city's mayor and shouting protestors claim 140 Latino women and child immigrants threaten their town's "safety." The city's own crime statistics suggest otherwise.
Antonia Cartwright, July 1, 2014
Blog, Drug Policy—By equalizing treatment and punishment for crack and powder cocaine, Sen. Mitchell's SB 1010 recognizes drug abuse as a health issue and promotes racial equality.
June 27, 2014
Newsroom, Model Local Practices—San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter highlights the LEAP program, which CJCJ operates in partnership with the San Francisco Public Defender's Office.
June 26, 2014
Newsroom, Model Local Practices—CJCJ operates the LEAP program in partnership with the San Francisco Public Defender's Office to help young people obtain educational success.
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Established in 1985 as the Western Regional Office of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA), the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization promoting a balanced and humane criminal justice system through the provision of direct services, technical assistance, and policy analysis.
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