The Latest Look at the Effects of Juvenile Incarceration, California Style Pacific Crime Blog, July 30, 2010.
Two provocative papers issued by CJCJ this month find that despite racial progress in other areas, American authorities’ historical campaign to associate taboo drugs, particularly marijuana, with “Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos,” and other minorities (U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics Harry Anslinger, 1936) remains powerful in 2010. CJCJ’s first paper analyzes new criminal justice, health, and drug monitoring agency statistics to document that California operates a separate, harshly unequal…
Blog Jul 30, 2010
A New Responsible CCPOA
The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) has long been seen as the primary villain responsible for the disastrous state of the California prison system. During the late 1980s and 1990s while under the leadership of Don Novey, the CCPOA argued, advocated, and spent enormous amount of its resources to intimidate lawmakers to support harsher sentencing laws and prison expansion. The calculation, of course, was that an ever expanding prison system would translate into an…
In September 2009, San Francisco was one of only five jurisdictions from around the nation selected as a Second Chance Act National Demonstration Project site by the United States Department of Justice, to develop and implement the Juvenile Collaborative Reentry Team (JCRT). JCRT is a collaboration between the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department, the San Francisco Superior Court, and the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, that will…
Jul 21, 2010
New Report Released: “The California Miracle”
Executive Director Daniel Macallair and Senior Research Fellow Mike Males investigate the validity of the Incapacitation Theory through the recent report titled “The California Miracle: Drastically Reduced Youth Incarceration, Drastically Reduced Youth Crime .” This report serves as an update to a prior CJCJ publication, “Testing Incapacitation Theory: Youth Crime and Incarceration in California .” Our recent analysis calls incapacitation theory into serious question. Incapacitation theory…
Jul 21, 2010
CJCJ co-hosts the Correctional Crisis Conference
In June 2010 the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice entered into a unique partnership with the California Correctional Peace Officer’s Association by co-hosting the Correctional Crisis Conference. This collaborative effort convenes California’s leading correctional experts and stakeholders from the entire spectrum of the criminal justice system. The goal of the roundtable discussions is to develop a set of policy recommendations for the gubernatorial candidates that will elevate the…
Blog Jul 21, 2010
Building a new consensus on California prison policy
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association are co-hosting an unprecedented series of policy discussions in Sacramento with some of the state’s leading correctional experts to help forge a consensus on future corrections policy. With the continued deterioration of conditions in the state’s prisons, a new urgency has emerged that is bringing together a new coalition of groups and individuals to work with state leaders to address…
Blog Jul 12, 2010
Let Our Kids Shoot Back
Let Our Kids Shoot Back! Recent sweeping affirmations by the U.S. Supreme Court, in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. Chicago (2010), that “the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of… individual self-defense” as “a basic right” means gun possession by children and youths must be legalized immediately. Given the expansion of laws easing more widespread ownership of guns by adults and Court decisions forbidding lawmakers from infringing…
Blog Jul 12, 2010
BP Oil — The Plot (and oil) Thickens
Is there any end in sight to this criminal act? My previous blog focused on the fact that this was a case begging for a criminal indictment. I neglected to mention the fact that BP Oil, along with the entire oil industry, has figured out methods of living off the public dole. As reported in the New York Times recently the platform were the oil rig was sitting on is owned by a company called Transocean a company that had moved its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Cayman…
Recently, the Department of Juvenile Facilities (formerly known as the California Youth Authority) claimed to be in 85% compliance with the consent decree under the Farrell litigation. This percentage cultivates a skewed perception of the state youth correctional facility’s progress towards reforming into a rehabilitative environment. In April 2010, CJCJ’s Executive Director Daniel Macallair highlighted this issue in the California Progress Report . As DJF touts its progress it is important…
Blog Jul 3, 2010
BP Oil Spill — Where’s the Arrest?
Where is the arrest warrant? Where is the indictment? An ordinary economic crime — burglary, auto theft — gets immediate attention, cops putting handcuffs on suspects, booking at the local jail, an appearance in court. A crime of the magnitude as the gulf oil spill gets apologies, explanations, excuses, etc. along with checks for those who have lost homes and businesses, jobs, etc. But 11 people died and at least 17 have been reported injured. And the costs keep increasing. One …
Publications Jul 1, 2010
The California Miracle: Drastically Reduced Youth Incarceration, Drastically Reduced Youth Crime
The California Miracle: Drastically Reduced Youth Incarceration, Drastically Reduced Youth Crime