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Adult realignment and the county jail building boom
Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union released an insightful, comprehensive report on county plans for a massive jail expansion using funding allocated through Assembly Bill 109 and Assembly Bill 900. AB 109 is the adult realignment bill that shifted responsibility for supervising low-level offenders (non-non-non’s) from the state to the county level along with $367 million for first-year implementation. Adult realignment in California comes at time when public opinion is shifting…
On Thursday April 12, 2012, in City Hall room 416, at 5:30 pm , the San Francisco Human Rights Commission is holding a public hearing on The Human Rights Impact of the War on Drugs . CJCJ’s Selena Teji will be providing testimony on “Racial Disparities in Drug Law Enforcement in San Francisco” alongside Professor William Armaline from San José State University. The hearing will also be televised on http://www.sfgovtv.org/ . This hearing is designed to solicit feedback from people who have…
This Thursday, April 12th, 2012 , residents of San Francisco will have an opportunity to discuss the impact of the war on drugs in the city and make recommendations as to what should be done to address it. The San Francisco Human Rights Commission is holding a public hearing on The Human Rights Impact of the War on Drugs in City Hall room 416, at 5:30 pm to discuss the impact of drug policy on the city’s individuals and families. Interested members of the public are encouraged to attend…
A new Pew research poll released last week shows that voters across the U.S. are overwhelmingly in favor of reducing prison spending and support shifting resources to community supervision rather than incarceration, specifically for low-level offenders. The national poll also shows that voters prioritize reductions in recidivism as the primary “end goal” of corrections, even if it means offenders spend less time behind bars and more time in rehabilitative programming. Public…