Counties currently seeking state funding have both immense responsibility to ensure continued best practices, and the valuable opportunity to build bridges between justice-involved youth and the communities to which they will return.
Blog May 29, 2014
Apartheid Schooling
Senior Researcher Randy Shelden discusses wealth and income inequality in this CJCJ blog.
Economic justice and respectful treatment for young people in policy and discussion forums are both a moral imperative and epitomize the best of “what works” in criminal justice. I feel the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange — like many in the field — does not uphold those standards. Others may disagree, but here is my view.
Blog May 27, 2014
A Quest for Democracy in Sacramento
On May 19, over 200 individuals came to the capitol as part of the second annual Formerly Incarcerated People’s Quest for Democracy.
CJCJ’s Lizzie Buchen discusses California’s trend towards juvenile justice reform in the Associated Press.
Unofficial notes from the meeting, taken by CJCJ’s Brian Goldstein.
The purpose of this preliminary analysis is to examine current crime, confinement, and population trends within a larger historical context to estimate the county’s future juvenile detention needs.
Unsentenced individuals comprise over 60% of California’s statewide jail population. Therefore, decreasing the number of people detained pretrial can alleviate unnecessary use of jail beds and improve overall public safety outcomes.
CJCJ’s response to Governor Jerry Brown’s FY 2014 – 15 Budget May Revision.
On Thursday, May 8, California’s Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) heard a series of presentations from its Juvenile Justice Standing Committee (JJSC) around data, education, and disproportionate minority contact or confinement in the juvenile justice system.
Blog May 6, 2014
Named legislation rarely protects the public
Bills authored in response to specific events are well-meaning but will rarely result in good public policy.
CURYJ, the Pacific Institute, and CJCJ partner to highlight the negative impact of policing on youth and alternative approaches that promote stronger, healthier, and safer communities.