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Education versus incarceration: CSU budget runs dry while corrections funding soars Golden Gate Xpress, January 162012

Gov. Jerry Brown plans $1 billion in prison cuts San Francisco Chronicle, January 152012

State spends 8 times more than counties to jail juvenile offenders Manteca Bulletin, January 132012

Behind Governor’s Plan to Close State’s Juvenile Justice System Bay Citizen, January 102012

A new report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) entitled Juvenile Justice Realignment in 2012 provides support for Governor Brown’s realignment proposal and offers five policy recommendations that include a three-year process that allows counties time to design new services and infrastructure. At the end of three years, the state will no longer manage youth correctional institutions and the resources that used to sustain these facilities will be transferred to the…