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Making San Francisco’s juvenile justice system work requires the adoption of a new organizational structure and direction. Under the new system, secure detention becomes just one element of a full continuum of services capable of providing comprehensive individualized interventions.

From Classrooms to Cell Blocks: How Prison Building Affects Higher Education & African American Enrollment in CA

An unprecedented and rapidly developing trend — the transfer of juvenile offenders into the adult prison system at increasingly younger ages — is creating increasing strain on our country’s criminal justice system. 

This report presents recommendations about serving the unique needs of girls in the San Francisco Juvenile Probation system. 

As politically expedient get tough” stances have monopolized the debate on crime, political one-upsmanship has produced the most punitive, expensive and racially disparate criminal justice policies in the state’s history.