Mar 22, 2016
CJCJ in the news: Weed Legalization Can’t Seem to Fix One Thing: Racial Gaps in Drug Arrests
Mic picks up data analysis from CJCJ’s Mike Males showing a continued racial disparity in marijuana-related arrests, even in legalization states.
Mar 21, 2016
CJCJ in the news: Pot legalization hasn’t done anything to shrink the racial gap in drug arrests
The Washington Post reviews findings by CJCJ’s Mike Males which show that, despite the huge drops in marijuana-related arrests in both Washington and Colorado, the pot arrest rate for African-Americans was more than double that of non-African Americans.
CJCJ in the News Mar 17, 2016
CJCJ in the news: The Davis Vanguard highlights CJCJ’s Prop. 47 report
The Davis Vanguard reviews CJCJ’s new Prop. 47 report analyzing the initiatives effect on crime.
CJCJ Executive Director Daniel Macallair writes an op-ed in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE) on how California’s plummeting youth crime rates creates an opportunity for more substantive reform
Voice of America highlights Mike Males’s finding that Native Americans are disparately likely to be killed by law enforcement.