Marijuana Arrests and California’s Drug War
Blog Sep 24, 2009
Dropping Out and Crime
It has become a truism that there is a close connection between school failure and juvenile crime, as demonstrated by literally hundreds of studies over the past 100 years. As if to remind us once again, here comes yet another study, this one by the California Dropout Research Project at UC Santa Barbara. As reported in today’s Los Angeles Times , dropping out of school costs the state $1.1 billion each year and if we decreased the number of dropouts by half it would save $550 million per…
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Sep 8, 2009
Daniel Macallair: Federal Courts to the Rescue: Fixing California’s Broken Prison System
Read Executive Director Daniel Macallairs piece in BeyondChron on Federal Courts to the Rescue: Fixing California’s Broken Prison System
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Sep 7, 2009
The racism of marijuana prohibition
The racism of marijuana prohibition Los Angeles Times, September 7, 2009
Blog Sep 2, 2009
The end of an era?
A story in the Los Angeles Times caught my eye. The title tells most of the story: “California to close its largest juvenile prison .” The institution is the Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility in Chino. They will convert it to an adult prison and eventually transfer the young offenders to other programs in the state, mostly in county facilities closer to their families. Stark has been part of what most experts consider one of the “dinosaurs” of juvenile institutions, the California…
A Taxpayers Guide to the California Death Penalty
Listen to Daniel Macallair, Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, speak on the Juvenile Mental Health Outlook on KCBS View Full Clip
Federal Courts to the Rescue: Fixing California’s Broken Prison System BeyondChron, August 20, 2009
Blog Aug 15, 2009
Treating kids under 12 as adults
A new study released by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin illustrates once again the punitiveness that remains an essential feature of American society. The title of the study is “From Time Out to Hard Time: Young Children in the Adult Criminal Justice System.” To see the complete study go to the following web site: http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/news/images/file/From%20Time%20Out%20to%20Hard%20Time-revised%20final.pdf . The study began when the…
Blog Aug 10, 2009
Juvenile Mental Health Outlook
Listen to Daniel Macallair, Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, speak on the Juvenile Mental Health Outlook on KCBS View Full Clip