Blog Nov 22, 2011
CDAA: ignoring the evidence
Realignment has affected all branches of the criminal justice system. While sheriffs and probation departments scramble to implement innovate alternatives to incarceration and maximize their jail capacities without adequate funding, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and the courts are also faced with similar challenges. However, some county’s prosecutors are not rising to the challenge, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle . In fact, while San Francisco DA George Gascón…
Congratulations to Executive Director Daniel Macallair, who has been awarded the California Wellness Foundation Sabbatical Program Award for 2011! This leadership support program is now in its ninth year and aims to provide an opportunity for rejuvenation and promote the health of valuable leaders in the nonprofit health and human services sector. “I look forward to spending three months finishing my book on the Calfornia juvenile justice system.” ~ CJCJ Executive Director Daniel…
A little known law enforcement group with heavy political sway KALW News, November 18, 2011
If you could not be at the Capitol Weekly conference today — California Prisons: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly — you can still get an insight into what Executive Director Daniel Macallair talked about during the reform panel, by checking out his presentation handout and slides , available on CJCJ’s Resource Center . If you would like more information or to request related CJCJ publications, please contact Selena Teji, Communications Specialist at cjcjmedia@cjcj.org or 415.621.5661 ext. 317.
Blog Nov 15, 2011
The problem with teen curfews [video blog]
California Correctional Crisis wrote an excellent blog discussing juvenile curfews yesterday, recommending that before introducing juvenile curfews we should know more about juvenile crime rates. The blog post highlights several articles including recent op-eds by CJCJ’s Senior Research Fellow Mike Males and Communications Specialist Selena Teji , and a study by Patrick Kline that suggests curfews are effective overall at reducing crime for juveniles below curfew age. As Mike Males points…
Nov 15, 2011
Marijuana Arrests Skyrocket in California
Marijuana Arrests Skyrocket in California OpposingViews.com, November 14, 2011
Nov 14, 2011
Wrong ideas: Curfews and Incarceration
Wrong ideas: Curfews and Incarceration Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, November 14, 2011
Report: Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests Skyrocketing in California SF Weekly, November 11, 2011
Blog Nov 10, 2011
Veterans impacted by the criminal justice system
Veterans returning from war zones face copious challenges upon re-entering their communities and many encounter the criminal justice system in some capacity. CJCJ’s Senior Research Fellow, William (Bud) Brown conducts research on this issue. In his recent paper, published in CJCJ’s Justice Policy Journal (JPJ) earlier this year, Dr. Brown conducted a study finding that veterans with PTSD and alcohol dependency related to combat are more likely to be impacted by the criminal justice system. …
Blog Nov 10, 2011
PORAC’s contribution to California’s prison crisis
The Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC), founded in 1953, is a special interest group that lobbies in Sacramento and influences California’s criminal justice policymaking. PORAC’s positions promoting incarceration and harsh sentencing goes against mainstream criminal justice policy — including mainstream conservatism. A new CJCJ publication, Promoting the “get tough” crime control agenda: The Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) , reviewed…
Blog Nov 4, 2011
America’s war on drugs [video blog]
~ CJCJ Senior Research Fellow, Mike Males
Blog Nov 3, 2011
Is Wall Street a gang? Part II
Not too many would note the irony that while police make hundreds of arrests for relatively minor offenses (e.g., disturbing the peace) — which usually end up being dismissed in court — within the confines of the buildings high above the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters there is rampant criminality. I mean this literally, for over the years the “top 1%” has indeed engaged in some of the worst crimes, destroying millions of lives while raiding the U.S. treasury of trillions of dollars. As…