Report: No reason not to shut down state’s youth prisons KALW News, February 6, 2012
Bringing Down Youth Prisons and Building a Better Place Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, February 3, 2012
Judge Hyman “California Juvenile Prison Shutdown” Legal Broadcast Network, February 2, 2012
Juvenile Dept. Worried about Housing High-risk Offenders Central Coast News KION/KCBA, February 2, 2012
A new report out from the Vera institute conducts a state-by-state analysis of ballooning corrections budgets, far greater than previously reported. Overall, states’ corrections budgets have quadrupled over the last 20 years while funding for education and preventative services has either stagnated or been cut dramatically. When additional corrections costs are considered such as retirement health care for employees, pensions, prisoner health care, and current employee benefits, taxpayers are…