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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…

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…

Holder targets school discipline practices: unacceptable,’ destructive’ The Daily Caller, February 272012

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…

Phasing Out Juvenile Justice KQED Radio, February 242012