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Daniel Macallair, MPA, Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, article titled Wasting Tax Dollars: Public Relations and the California Youth Corrections System ” was recently featured in the California Progress Report. Mr. Macallair discusses that despite the class action law suit (Farrell v Cate) against the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), the state is not in full compliance with reforming the State’s youth correctional facilities. Further, the article exposes…

The Myth of Mean Girls New York Times, April 12010

Wasting Tax Dollars: Public Relations and the California Youth Corrections System California Progress Report, April 12010

At the close of my last blog (“More Abuse in Youth Prisons”) I suggested doing a simple search on the Internet and type in words like abuse in juvenile institutions” and select some states at random. I said at the time that I would continue my search. And so I did. And what I found was way beyond what I expected. I don’t often like to use the word epidemic” since it is so value-loaded and defies precise definition. One definition from Webster’s includes widespread growth” and so I…