Newsroom Mar 26, 2013
Radio Smart Talk: School Safety
What Sandy Hook [-] did was shine a spotlight on school safety.
Blog Mar 26, 2013
The rich get richer while everyone else struggles
A couple of interesting news stories appeared today in the Los Angeles Times. The first one is titled “Forbes’ tally of billionaires jumps 16%; Buffett drops in list.” The second is called “Nearly half of Americans are one emergency from financial ruin.”
Blog Mar 21, 2013
Debtor’s prisons alive and well
As I have written before jails have been largely reserved for the poor and at one time in history words like jails and poorhouses (along with workhouses and prisons) were used interchangeably.
Newsroom Mar 21, 2013
NEW REPORT: counties’ large disparities in imprisonment underlie ongoing prison crisis
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CJCJ report analyzes new data from the last quarter of 2012. Finds county disparities contribute to prison crisis and impact all CA taxpayers.
Nearly 18 months after the state’s prison realignment law took effect, Merced officials agree the jury is still out on whether it meets its intended goals.