Brown’s plan to reduce prison overcrowding focuses on increasing incarceration, rather than enhancing public safety.
Blog May 6, 2013
Meanness and Violence
A colleague and I were talking the other day about how much violence there is in American society. We both admitted that the extent of violence in America exceeded by far every other industrialized democratic society. Why is this, we asked? The pursuit of the almighty dollar was one factor, along with the stress associated with this.
Blog May 6, 2013
America is Ranked 29th in Child Well-Being
A review of the UNICEF Report on Child Well-being shows the U.S. is near the bottom of the list across every dimension: poverty, health and safety, education, behaviors/risk, and housing/environment.
May 3, 2013
Underaged & Suppressed?
Mike Males asserts that young people are politically vulnerable and scapegoated when it comes to gun control laws. Listen to the discussion on HuffPost Live.
“Bad information breeds expedient, ineffective policy, as exemplified by the administration’s surviving gun initiatives…”
To meet the court’s mandate by the end of the year, Brown needs to begin releasing identified low-risk inmates now — a step both the federal and the U.S. Supreme Court agree “would be consistent with public safety.”
Gov. Brown must reduce the state’s prison population by 10,000 people or be held in contempt of Court. Systematically releasing low-risk inmates is a safe and just way to meet this mandate.
Author, sociologist and outspoken youth advocate Mike Males shares his insights on the social, political and cultural problem of blaming, shaming and framing youth.
California’s counties are one step closer to having more resources to treat and rehabilitate youth who have committed serious or violent offenses.
Blog Apr 23, 2013
Boston Bombings
It has now been more than a week since the dramatic event that came at the end of the annual Boston Marathon. What concerns me the most is the media coverage and what many would call an overreaction by law enforcement.
This publication reviews the progress DJF has made in implementing Court-ordered reforms, using qualitative and quantitative data from the court-appointed expert in safety and welfare, the Special Master who oversees all Farrell reforms, and the CDCR.
Apr 22, 2013
Proposition 36: Implementation and Adjudication
On May 2nd, Stanford Law School is hosting a conference on the safe and effective implementation of Proposition 36.