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…
Newsroom Apr 1, 2010
The Myth of Mean Girls
The Myth of Mean Girls New York Times, April 1, 2010
Newsroom Apr 1, 2010
Wasting Tax Dollars: Public Relations and the California Youth Corrections System
Wasting Tax Dollars: Public Relations and the California Youth Corrections System California Progress Report, April 1, 2010
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Blog Mar 25, 2010
An Epidemic of Abuse Inside Juvenile Institutions
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…