Executive Director Daniel Macallair, MPA is the leading national expert on juvenile institutional mitigation. He draws on his twenty-years experience in the development and analysis of youth and adult correctional policy. Recently, he presented on “Juvenile Incarceration as Mitigation” at the annual CACJ/CPDA capital case defense seminar. Their website is www.cacj.org .
CJCJ’s Sentencing Service Program releases the 2008⁄09 Juvenile Placement Manual The Sentencing Service Program first released its Juvenile Placement Manual in 2002 to assist individuals in the…
Executive Director Daniel Macallair coauthored expert testimony at sentencing- “Proof of Facts” Daniel Macallair, Executive Director coauthored recent updated version of G. Thomas Gitchoff’s “Proof of Facts: Expert Testimony at Sentencing” for the American Jurisprudence encyclopedia of US law. Please contact
For the past 20 years the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice has critically examined the control exercised by special interests group over California’s prison policy — especially the state’s prison guards union. With their ability to spend millions of dollars to defeat political enemies, the guards union has achieved unprecedented success in promoting their agenda and resisting reform efforts. In her recent editorial, Sacramento Bee editor, Pia Lopez, analyzes the historical influence…
Blog Jan 21, 2009
Another troubling juvenile court case
Statements by prosecutors following the January 16 ruling by a San Francisco Juvenile Court judge that four “Potrero Hill gang members” committed first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and gang-related crimes in the 2007 shooting death of a 17-year-old woman and wounding of another teen outside a community center raise troubling questions about juvenile justice. According to prosecutors and the judge’s ruling, one of the youths, now an adult, used a gun to murder…