Earlier this month I had the opportunity to attend a two-day conference entitled, “Exposing Structural Racism from Within: The Power of Restorative Justice,” sponsored by the Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley. Conferences, especially those in an academic environment, usually tend to focus only on the problems, however this time I left with an overwhelmed, yet hopeful, mind. While there was plenty of theoretical discourse on how, and if, restorative justice as a model has the…
Blog Nov 22, 2011
CDAA: ignoring the evidence
Realignment has affected all branches of the criminal justice system. While sheriffs and probation departments scramble to implement innovate alternatives to incarceration and maximize their jail capacities without adequate funding, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and the courts are also faced with similar challenges. However, some county’s prosecutors are not rising to the challenge, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle . In fact, while San Francisco DA George Gascón…
Congratulations to Executive Director Daniel Macallair, who has been awarded the California Wellness Foundation Sabbatical Program Award for 2011! This leadership support program is now in its ninth year and aims to provide an opportunity for rejuvenation and promote the health of valuable leaders in the nonprofit health and human services sector. “I look forward to spending three months finishing my book on the Calfornia juvenile justice system.” ~ CJCJ Executive Director Daniel…
If you could not be at the Capitol Weekly conference today — California Prisons: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly — you can still get an insight into what Executive Director Daniel Macallair talked about during the reform panel, by checking out his presentation handout and slides , available on CJCJ’s Resource Center . If you would like more information or to request related CJCJ publications, please contact Selena Teji, Communications Specialist at cjcjmedia@cjcj.org or 415.621.5661 ext. 317.
Blog Nov 15, 2011
The problem with teen curfews [video blog]
California Correctional Crisis wrote an excellent blog discussing juvenile curfews yesterday, recommending that before introducing juvenile curfews we should know more about juvenile crime rates. The blog post highlights several articles including recent op-eds by CJCJ’s Senior Research Fellow Mike Males and Communications Specialist Selena Teji , and a study by Patrick Kline that suggests curfews are effective overall at reducing crime for juveniles below curfew age. As Mike Males points…