Blog Sep 6, 2011
California counties punished for best-practices
As counties prepare for criminal justice realignment, the disparities between counties’ sentencing practices become increasingly apparent. State-dependant counties, who have higher rates of state imprisonment, have been allocated substantially more funding than self-reliant counties. Rather than basing the funding allocation on county crime rates, the funding formula is based on the number of low-level offenders each county currently has in state prison. There is no doubt counties will need…
How “realignment” will change criminal justice in California KALW News, September 6, 2011
Banning Youths From Streets May Make Us Less Safe: Mike Males Bloomberg Businessweek, August 31, 2011
Blog Sep 1, 2011
CA Policy: the CCPOA political powerhouse
In my last two CA Policy blogs I discussed successful marketing strategies employed by special interest groups to thwart criminal justice policy reform. The two propositions I depicted as examples, involved sophisticated use of rhetoric and multimedia visibility. Both Proposition 66 and Proposition 5 were opposed by the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), whose influential role in the opposition campaigns is documented in CJCJ’s CCPOA Information Sheet . Here’s a…
Newsroom Aug 31, 2011
CJCJ Newsletter — California Realignment News
Realignment is upon us. How will you respond?