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Publications Oct 8, 2026
California’s Opportunity: Closing Prisons and Reinvesting in Higher Education
California should seize this moment to right-size its prison system and reinvest savings where they will produce the greatest long-term benefit: higher education. A CJCJ Fiscal and Policy Analysis.
Report Sep 30, 2026
Realignment Without Accountability
California closed its state youth prisons in 2023, handing counties full responsibility for youth in the justice system. Our coalition has been tracking conditions in local facilities ever since.
Publications Sep 23, 2026
Prop 47 Is Working: The Case for Treatment Over Incarceration in California
Prop 47 redirected state savings from a shrinking prison population into community-based treatment, housing, and mental health programs. It cut recidivism and made gains in housing and employment.
Costly Blunder examines how California expanded juvenile detention during a historic decline in youth arrests, leaving counties with excess capacity and long-term costs.
Publications Aug 7, 2026
Empty Cells Are Missed Opportunities to Repurpose America’s Surplus Juvenile Detention Facilities
In a brief published with the Scholars Strategy Network, Daniel Macallair and Carina Gallo make the case for a federal conversion program for empty and underused U.S. juvenile detention facilities.