Mar 4, 2012
Group Supports Local Juvenile Justice Focus
Group Supports Local Juvenile Justice Focus KRON 4 Weekend News, March 4, 2012
If you missed CJCJ’s Communications Specialist Selena Teji discussing rational and effective juvenile justice realignment strategies last week on the radio, you can still go to KQED’s archived link to “Phasing Out Juvenile Justice ” to catch up on the conversation. But make sure you do not miss her again; watch Selena’s presentation this weekend on KRON 4 and learn all about CJCJ’s juvenile justice realignment recommendations. Tune in to KRON 4 at 8:15am Sunday…
Humboldt County’s Probation Department is leading the way in utilizing innovative funding streams for serving California’s highest-risk, highest-need youthful offenders. The department utilizes innovating funding streams in their New Horizons program to provide mental health in-facility and aftercare treatment in a way that puts rehabilitation at the center of their department’s mission. From Humboldt’s County Probation Deptartment’s website : New Horizons, an intensive…
Publications Mar 1, 2012
San Francisco Youth Crime at Record Low
San Francisco Youth Crime at Record Low
Publications Mar 1, 2012
Addendum to Charging Youths as Adults
Addendum to Charging Youths as Adults
Feb 29, 2012
Why the prison population is getting older
Why the prison population is getting older KALW News, February 28, 2012
Are you contributing to the juvenile justice realignment debate?
At John Jay University’s recent criminal justice conference, I was given a report issued last month by Human Rights Watch on a topic of great interest, “Old Behind Bars .” My enthusiasm for HRW’s documented concerns about the rapid aging of America’s prison population diminished considerably as its authors indulged increasingly nasty comments about young people that detracted from its larger message. HRW’s report is well worth obtaining for its outstanding array of statistics detailing the…
Selena Teji, CJCJ’s Communication Specialist, discussed “Phasing Out Juvenile Justice” on KQED’s Forum with Barry Krisberg, director of the Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, and Brian Brown, managing principal analyst at the Legislative Analyst’s Office. If you missed the show, go to “Phasing Out Juvenile Justice ” or review the summary below. The above-mentioned experts discussed the following juvenile justice realignment…
Holder targets school discipline practices: ‘unacceptable,’ ‘destructive’ The Daily Caller, February 27, 2012
Feb 24, 2012
Phasing Out Juvenile Justice
Phasing Out Juvenile Justice KQED Radio, February 24, 2012
Last week the LAO released a report entitled “Completing Juvenile Justice Realignment” . The report supports Governor Brown’s juvenile realignment proposal and calls for a staggered closure of DJF facilities while transferring funding and supervision responsibilities to the county level. The LAO notes that the state’s current two-tier system where the state supervises just 1% of incarcerated youth limits county responsibility, limits coordination of community-based…