Community groups, advocate organizations, and young people of color who compose the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color meet with legislators, discuss policy, and request that community leaders have input in decisions affecting their neighborhoods.
Sep 3, 2015
CJCJ in the news: With Juvenile Deincarceration, Jerry Miller Was First One Over the Wall
CJCJ’s executive director, Daniel Macallair, is honored as a “feisty Miller acolyte” by the Chronicle of Social Change after the passing of the great Jerry Miller.
Blog Aug 25, 2015
Enough Nonsense on Youthful (In)competence
Pre-judging the individual guilt of the Santa Cruz 15-year-old accused of murdering a child is not just, and judging all 15-year-olds as incompetent is not science.
When a prosecutor wants to try a youth as an adult, defense attorneys reach out to Nisha Ajmani, program manager for CJCJ’s Sentencing Service Program (SSP), to keep that youth in the juvenile justice system.
Aug 19, 2015
CJCJ Founder Passes On
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Jerome G. Miller, the visionary leader who closed Massachusetts’s juvenile prisons in the early 1970s and forever changed the context of juvenile justice reform.