Juvenile Justice
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California Must Safeguard Youth in State Facilities Amid COVID-19 Crisis
- Maureen Washburn, Mar 26, 2020
- California must move quickly to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from striking young people housed in…
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New Fact Sheet: Local Juvenile Justice Facilities Can Absorb State Youth Correctional Population
- Maureen Washburn, Apr 4, 2018
- CJCJ's new fact sheet finds unprecedented available capacity in California's county-run juvenile…
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California’s Local Juvenile Facility Populations Continue to Decline in 2017
- Brian Goldstein, Mar 8, 2018
- New data from 2017 show a continued population decline in California’s local juvenile halls…
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New Report: Youth Prosecution after Prop 57
- Maureen Washburn, Nov 29, 2017
- Addressing Racial, Ethnic, and Geographic Disparities after the Repeal of Direct File
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Youth Prison Paradox: Californians Want Them Shut Down While Counties Keep Building
- Aug 10, 2017
- The Chronicle of Social Change quotes CJCJ's Director of Policy Brian Goldstein about California's…
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Justice for All: Senate Bill 190
- Evelyn Enciso, Aug 8, 2017
- Senate Bill (SB) 190, which has passed the California Senate, aims to address the inequity of…
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The Kids Are All Right (and These Surprising Statistics Prove It)
- Jul 17, 2017
- CJCJ's Mike Males pens an op-ed for Yes! Magazine detailing positive trends among American youth,…
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California Must Better Protect the Health and Safety of Youth in Juvenile Halls
- Brian Goldstein, Jun 14, 2017
- Right now, California is deciding how, and in some cases whether , to afford basic protections for…
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Refuting Fear: Immigration, Youth, and CA’s Stunning Declines in Crime and Violence
- Jun 6, 2017
- A new CJCJ report finds crime and violence have decreased as racial and ethnic diversity and…
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State spent millions on youth facilities despite drop in crime
- May 23, 2017
- The Union Democrat quotes CJCJ's Erica Webster and Mike Males regarding community concerns about…
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California’s Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) Reports High Recidivism Despite Surging Costs
- Maureen Washburn, Apr 18, 2017
- CJCJ's new fact sheet finds that the costs of confining youth in California’s state youth…
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CJCJ Co-sponsored Bills Clear Senate Policy Committees
- Maureen Washburn, Apr 12, 2017
- On April 4 th , SB 190 and SB 439 passed Senate policy committees after strong testimony from…
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CJCJ Co-sponsors Legislation to Reform the Juvenile Justice System
- Maureen Washburn, Mar 21, 2017
- CJCJ is co-sponoring two bills in the California legislature this year that would lessen the impact…
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‘Rooms Infested With Spiders’: California Youth Urge Changes in Conditions at Juvenile Facilities
- Jan 27, 2017
- The Chronicle of Social Change highlights advocacy by CJCJ and other juvenile justice organizations…
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2017-18 Budget Expands Youth Prisons and Deepens Reliance on Incarceration
- Maureen Washburn, Jan 20, 2017
- In a time of fiscal caution, Governor Brown’s FY 2017-18 budget proposal deepens…
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States Must Move Funding from Correctional Facilities to Community-Based Treatment
- Erica Webster, Jan 19, 2017
- CJCJ's Erica Webster pens an op-ed for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE).
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Webinar Recap: Improving Minimum Standards for California’s Juvenile Justice Facilities
- Erica Webster, Jan 18, 2017
- Please find all the webinar presentation materials here. Thank you to The California Endowment and…
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Lost African American Girls in the Maryland Juvenile Justice System
- Jan 6, 2017
- CJCJ's Mike Males discusses the mistreatment and criminalization of Black girls in the juvenile…
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Post-Prop 57, California Considers the Lasting Harm of Youth Incarceration
- Maureen Washburn, Nov 22, 2016
- With Prop 57, Californians have voted to curb the treatment of youth as adults. Now we must…
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New Prop 57 data tool shows "justice-by-geography" in California
- Erica Webster, Nov 1, 2016
- Prop 57 would abolish prosecutor's ability to charge youth directly in adult court, a practice that…
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Prop 57 Resource Page
- Nov 1, 2016
- An interactive map showing youth prosecuted as adults in each county, radio interviews, research…
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California’s Prop 57 Would Have Judges, Not Prosecutors, Decide If Youth Are Tried As Adults
- Maureen Washburn, Oct 31, 2016
- CJCJ's Maureen Washburn pens an op-ed for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE)…
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October News: New reports, a tour of DJJ & a youth client's success
- Oct 31, 2016
- Two new reports focus on the future of youth justice in California, CJCJ staff tour California's…
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New Report: The Prosecution of Youth as Adults in California
- Oct 18, 2016
- A new report presents 2015 trends in California’s use of “direct file,” wherein…
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Sixteen Year-Olds Are Smart. Let Them Vote.
- Mike Males and Anthony Bernier, Oct 18, 2016
- CJCJ's Mike Males pens an op-ed for Washington Monthly calling on San Francisco voters to pass…
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