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California’s Turning Tide on Youth Prisons
posted on JANUARY 18, 2011 by Jakada Imani
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Seven years ago, Books Not Bars started calling for closing California’s youth prisons. People laughed in our faces. Literally. Even reformers who agreed in private, thought we were foolish to call for shuttering the largest set of youth prisons in the Country.

TAGS: Books Not Bars, CYA, djj, Governor Jerry Brown, juvenile justice, missouri model, Preston, Stark, system failure
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