Should California shut down its juvenile prisons? KALW News, January 27, 2011.
Read CJCJ’s newest publication “incarceration in the United States versus worldwide incarceration rates prisons as a market for profits the prison-building frenzy cashing in on crime and matters revolving around privatization of prisons.
Check out CJCJ’s newest web resource under the Public Education section on the homepage of our website: Interest Groups and Criminal Justice Policy . This webpage provides a basic introduction of the topic, explaining how the criminal justice system has become a constantly growing and expensive bureaucracy. The criminal justice system includes law enforcement, the courts, and corrections, and according to recent data, total expenditures of the system have increased 497% from 1982 to 2006. …
There are currently 1,262 youths confined in DJF facilities (Dec. 2010). Recent plans to close Preston YCF by June 2011 will result in a further reduction of the population. Moreover, plans to transfer all parole responsibilities to the counties will be in place by January 28, 2011. With those changes already in motion, how big is the next step proposed by Governor Brown: the elimination of DJF by June 2014? In a recent New York Times article , Executive Director Daniel Macallair discusses…
Can Counties Handle Young Offenders on Their Own? The Bay Citizen, January 22, 2011.