CJCJ’s Executive Director, Daniel Macallair, honors the life and achievements of juvenile justice reformer Allen Breed, in this article published in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange on July 27, 2011. Daniel Macallair: A Fond Farewell to Allen Breed
Jul 27, 2011
Daniel Macallair: A Fond Farewell to Allen Breed
Daniel Macallair: A Fond Farewell to Allen Breed Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, July 27, 2011
The Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2011 (S. 1231) was introduced in June by Senator Patrick Leahy (D- VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Robert Portman (R‑OH), and is now on its way to the U.S. Senate for a vote. The Second Chance Act originally passed unanimously in 2008 and funded re-entry programs nation-wide in the areas of substance abuse treatment, employment and mentoring services, and family reunification programs. It has since improved ex-offender…
Fiscal and prison overcrowding crises could lead to Three-Strikes reform Oakland Tribune, July 24, 2011
San Francisco’s Executive Committee of the Community Corrections Partnership has been devising a plan for realignment and presented their model for implementation to the Board of Supervisors’ Public Safety Committee at a public hearing yesterday at City Hall. California’s Criminal Justice Realignment Bill (A.B. 109) was approved on April 4, 2011 and is set to take effect October 1, 2011. Their plan focuses on collaboration between agencies in order to best serve the new population of inmates…
Jul 22, 2011
Maryland Youth Curfew Bill Brings Protests
Maryland Youth Curfew Bill Brings Protests Epoch Times, July 21, 2011
The Center for Media and Democracy’s ( http://www.prwatch.org/ ) “ALEC Exposed” page contains an eye-opening roster of how bad prison and juvenile justice legislation took off like wildfire around the country beginning in the 1980s. The Center obtained more than 800 pieces of “model legislation” circulated to lawmakers by the secretive, corporate/lobby-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), including many concerning prison and juvenile justice policy. Those interested in laws…
CJCJ in the News Jul 21, 2011
Associate Director Abu Qadir Al-Amin attends Connecting Communities for the Common Good
Faith and community leaders from across Colorado have been invited to join with the White House Office for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Governor John Hickenlooper, other…
San Francisco may bar employers, landlords from asking about arrests, convictions Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2011
I recently read an article in Yes Magazine’s “Beyond Prisons ” issue entitled, “Recipes for Recovery,” highlighting San Francisco’s own Delancey Street Foundation . Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Delancey Street is a program unlike any other– a reentry center for ex-prisoners and addicts, where the residents run the day-to-day, from housing, therapy sessions, businesses, such as their moving company and restaurant. I first learned about Delancey Street four years ago, when I…
Blog Jul 14, 2011
New report, same problems: DJF’s prolonged progress
Last week, just prior to the Farrell hearing, the Office of the Special Master released the 18th report documenting DJF’s efforts to comply with the remedial plans’ minimum standards of care. It covers the following: “¢ Ventura Youth Correctional Facility (VYCF) audit “¢ Sexual Behavior Treatment Program (SBTP ) update “¢ Integrated Behavioral Treatment Model (IBTM) “¢ ‘Use-of-force’ report “¢ Closure of Preston Youth Correctional Facility In her report, Special Master Campbell…
I have been around long enough to remember the OJ Simpson trial and many other trials that fall under the category of what Samuel Walker calls “celebrated cases.” These are those rare cases that exceed normalcy, largely because of the nature of the offense (one recent example is the kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard by Phillip Garrido who was held prisoner for 18 years) and often because of the celebrity status of those involved. Another thing many of these kinds of cases have in…