Today, 70,000 nonviolent offenders are locked up in state prison at bankrupting $3.5 billion per year costs to the state, with fiscal conditions getting gloomier as courts order upgrades in prison conditions and reductions in prison populations. Do local jails have the capacity to absorb a significant proportion, perhaps the 30,000 to 40,000, of these drug and property offense convicts – or even, on an immediate basis, the 15,000 or so we found were imprisoned for extremely low-level , mostly…
Mar 14, 2011
Brown’s plan to shut down youth prisons derailed
Brown’s plan to shut down youth prisons derailed California Watch, March 14, 2011.
CJCJ in the News Mar 9, 2011
At $50k a pop, which counties are sending low-level offenders to prison?
At $50k a pop, which counties are sending low-level offenders to prison? KALW News, March 9, 2011.
Gov. Brown Scratches Plan to Eliminate Youth Prisons The Bay Citizen, March 1, 2011.
Feb 28, 2011
New Series of Reports: Juvenile Justice Realignment
In response to Governor Brown’s proposal to eliminate the State’s Division of Juvenile Facilities (DJF) and realign juvenile justice in California, a new Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) series investigates some of the underlying concerns about the proposed realignment and reveals radically different juvenile justice practices across California’s fifty-eight counties. Part One of the series addresses whether closing DJF would increase county reliance on direct adult criminal…