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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.
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.
The second report in our California Juvenile Justice Realignment Series discusses why realignment demands a fundamentally different approach to confining youth with serious offenses.
Publications May 14, 2026
Nonprofit Community-Based Organizations: Central Partners in Service Delivery and Systems Reform
In the first of the California Juvenile Justice Realignment Series, Daniel Macallair writes about the role of CBO’s in service delivery and systems reform in the state.
Prop 47 has reinvested over half a billion dollars from expensive, overcrowded prisons into low-cost, high-impact prevention programs.