Newsroom Jul 7, 2012
For juveniles, justice is biased
For juveniles, justice is biased Politico, July 6, 2012
Legislature, Governor Brown Advance Historic Juvenile Justice Reforms California Progress Report, July 6, 2012
Newsroom Jul 6, 2012
San Francisco’s Twist on Probation
San Francisco’s Twist on Probation Wall Street Journal, July 4, 2012
Just days after the deadline, the Governor signed the $92 billion 2012 – 13 California budget into law on June 27th. The budget includes some of the most significant reforms in state juvenile justice policy since the passage of Senate Bill 81 in 2007. In his May 14th revised budget proposal, Governor Brown had retracted his plan to close the state’s youth correctional facilities, Division of Juvenile Facilities (DJF), under intense and well-coordinated law enforcement and county pressure. …
Blog Jul 3, 2012
Slavery’s legacy alive and well in Louisiana
Douglas Blackmon’s best-selling book Slavery by Another Name dispels one myth after another as he reveals the continuing of a system of slavery under a different name: convict leasing. This was a system whereby former black slaves were routinely rounded up on minor charges (or no charges at all) like vagrancy, placed in local county or town jails, brought to court and fined a small amount ($25 or $50). Since they could not pay the money (as they were too poor and were traveling from town to…