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

Let Our Kids Shoot Back!

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 Dire

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.<

Isn’t “Jew violence” a terrible plague? Dave “Son of Sam” Berkowitz whose serial slaughter terrorized New York City, or Joel and Hannah Steinberg’s brutal child murder? Or the “Moslem violence” that killed 3,000 on 9/11?