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Dan Macallair

5/14/2020

In Surprise Move, Newsom Calls for an End to California’s Youth Prison System

Jeremy Loudenback

With coronavirus pummeling Californians’ health and economy like a modern day plague, few expected a line item buried in an otherwise deficit-driven budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday: After decades of the state running what was once the country’s most vast and notorious youth prison system, the end could be near for the Division of Juvenile Justice.

12/12/2019

An Unlikely Group Wants to Raise California’s Juvenile Justice Age to 20

Susan Abram and John Kelly

Efforts to shield more teens from the adult criminal justice system are viewed as a progressive cause across the country. But an effort to expand California’s juvenile justice system to include older youth has drawn skepticism, partly due to its chief architect: the state’s probation lobby.

Youth Services Insider

6/20/2016

In California, Race Gap Widens to Race Crater on Juvenile Transfer Policy

Daniel Heimpel

A true measure of racial disparity in the juvenile justice system compares the outcomes, at any or many points, for youths of a different race who’ve been accused of the same offense.

Dan Macallair

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In Surprise Move, Newsom Calls for an End to California’s Youth Prison System

An Unlikely Group Wants to Raise California’s Juvenile Justice Age to 20

In California, Race Gap Widens to Race Crater on Juvenile Transfer Policy

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