CJCJ in the News Feb 13, 2017
If Kids Ran Juvie
The Marshall Project highlights the work of CJCJ and advocacy organizations to prioritize the voices of justice-involved youth in efforts to improve California’s local juvenile facilities.
Declining drug enforcement after Proposition 47, advocates rally to improve California’s juvenile facilities, and Governor Brown’s budget proposes to build another prison.
CJCJ in the News Jan 27, 2017
‘Rooms Infested With Spiders’: California Youth Urge Changes in Conditions at Juvenile Facilities
The Chronicle of Social Change highlights advocacy by CJCJ and other juvenile justice organizations to improve standards in county juvenile facilities.
ATTN: interviews CJCJ’s Brian Goldstein on the merits of the California Leadership Academy, a new prison project included in Governor Jerry Brown’s budget proposal, that CJCJ has long opposed.
Prop 47 created an estimated $103 million to fund community programs that focus on mental health, drug treatment and criminal justice diversion programs.