Blog Sep 24, 2009
Dropping Out and Crime
It has become a truism that there is a close connection between school failure and juvenile crime, as demonstrated by literally hundreds of studies over the past 100 years. As if to remind us once again, here comes yet another study, this one by the California Dropout Research Project at UC Santa Barbara. As reported in today’s Los Angeles Times , dropping out of school costs the state $1.1 billion each year and if we decreased the number of dropouts by half it would save $550 million per…
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Sep 8, 2009
Daniel Macallair: Federal Courts to the Rescue: Fixing California’s Broken Prison System
Read Executive Director Daniel Macallairs piece in BeyondChron on Federal Courts to the Rescue: Fixing California’s Broken Prison System
Sep 7, 2009
The racism of marijuana prohibition
The racism of marijuana prohibition Los Angeles Times, September 7, 2009
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