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…
Blog Feb 17, 2011
Should one County obstruct the juvenile justice reform efforts of the other 57 counties?
On February 10, 2011, CJCJ’s Executive Director Daniel Macallair and UC Berkeley’s Lecturer in Residence, Barry Krisberg were featured on KCRW’s Which Way, L.A.? alongside Connie Rice, Co-Director of the Advancement Project in Los Angeles, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, to discuss how Governor Brown’s proposal to eliminate the DJF will effect Los Angeles County’s juvenile justice practices. Ms. Rice described the current L.A. County juvenile justice system as “disastrous.” …