Blog Dec 6, 2011
Celebrating Dr. Miller’s Legacy
Over the course of 1971 to 1972 aremarkable event occurred that permanently altered conventional assumptionsabout justice administration. Jerome G Miller, then commissioner of youthcorrections in Massachusetts,systemically carried out the most sweeping reforms in correctional history. Heclosed the state’s five juvenile reform schools and transferred over 1,500youths to an assortment of community-based programs. These actions, which wereat first greeted with skepticism and derision by much…
Counties dilemma: how to use funds for inmates San Francisco Chronicle, December 5, 2011
How an electoral tweak is throwing California lobbyists into disarray KALW News, December 1, 2011
Blog Dec 1, 2011
Is Wall Street a gang? Part III
As the “Occupy Wall Street” movement continues all across the country it seems to me to be increasingly important to bring to the forefront the horrific crimes perpetrated by corporations and their representatives. The extent of their criminality was partly documented in the first two parts of this series. I say “partly” for a good reason: there are more examples and the examples go back more than a hundred years. The extent of corporate crime was noted in a now classic study by Edwin…
Who decides in Sacramento?