Daniel Macallair, MPA, CJCJ’s co-founder and Executive Director was featured in the Los Angeles Times. Read “Getting the state out of juvenile justice ” and learn how “shifting responsibility for youth correctional facilities to the counties could cut the budget deficit and move young offenders out of a system that ‘is broken almost everywhere you look.’ ”
Apr 12, 2010
Getting the state out of juvenile justice
Getting the state out of juvenile justice Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2010
Apr 9, 2010
Column: Phoebe Prince, Bullying, and Me
Column: Phoebe Prince, Bullying, and Me The Boston Globe, April 9, 2010
Blog Apr 9, 2010
The epidemic of abuse continues
In my most recent post I said that I would continue my investigation of what I termed an “epidemic” of abuse inside juvenile institutions. This led me first to the state of Mississippi. In Mississippi the situation has become so bad that a special web site has been set up devoted to following the issue. It is called “A Mississippi Gulag .” Back in 2002 the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) began an investigation of the conditions inside the Oakley Training School in Raymond,…
Blog Apr 7, 2010
CJCJ Supports SB 399
Senate Bill 399 is the California Fair Sentencing for Youth Act introduced by Senator Leland Yee. Current laws allow youth as young as 14 to be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole (LWOP). The United States and Somalia are the only countries that allow children under the age of 18 to serve this harsh sentence; a sentence that provides no chance of rehabilitation and is a one-way ticket to death inside prison walls. SB 399 allows youths sentenced to LWOP the chance to contest…