Students and community organizations gathered to protest the San Bernardino Unified School District’s role in the school-to-prison pipeline. This IE article cites CJCJ’s report revealing San Bernardino to be one of two cities where school officers can arrest students, and appear to do so frequently.
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE) publishes an op-ed by CJCJ’s Nisha Ajmani contrasting the United States’ treatment of youth in the justice system to that of other developed nations.
Oct 14, 2015
CJCJ in the news: KCBS interviews Daniel Macallair on sentencing youth to life without parole
On October 13th, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments to determine if its 2012 decision, prohibiting automatic sentencing of juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole, should be applied retroactively.
There are some surprisingly positive developments for politicians and lobbyists ready to conclude today’s endless quarrel.
Oct 12, 2015
CJCJ in the news: Native Lives Matter, Too
The New York Times tracts the disparate killings of Native Americans by police officers, citing CJCJ as one of the few sources that covered this issue.