Monday, March 28, 2011

Pelican Bay Class Action Suit, Madrid v. Gomez, Comes to an End

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This week, Madrid v. Gomez, a massive class-action lawsuit on behalf of Pelican Bay inmates filed in 1995, came to an end. KQED reports : ...

The New CCPOA? Victimhood, Citizenhood, and Political Gain

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(image from Crime Victims United of California website ) Joshua Page 's recent post on the California Progress Report about the CCPOA r...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Bastardizing "Problem Solving"

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Drug courts, heavily promoted as a novel way to holistically resolve issues concerning addiction, have generated a fair amount of data on th...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Debtors' Prisons in California?

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from DemandProgress.org: Americans are in more debt than ever before, and the banks are going to new extremes to squeeze us for every last p...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Support SB9 - the Fair Sentencing of Youth Act

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(image courtesy the Fair Sentencing of Youth website) CCC has been asked, and readily agreed, to endorse SB9, the Fair Sentencing of Youth ...
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Community Justice Center and Recidivism Studies

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(image by Lea Suzuki, courtesy the Chronicle ) Our point of departure is a new article by the Chron's Will Kane, which has great news f...

SF Chronicle: CA New Budget Includes Early Releases and Jurisdictional Changes

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Today's Chron reports on the passage of a new California budget, which features deep cuts and aims at reducing the state's deficit ...