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$2.25 million to family of brain-damaged inmate
posted on NOVEMBER 12, 2011 by Abel Habtegeorgis
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California prisons have paid $2.25 million to the family of an inmate left severely brain-damaged after she tried to hang herself in the mental health unit of the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility in Camarillo.

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Dangerous or Endangered?
posted on OCTOBER 04, 2011 by Jennifer Tilton
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Oakland politicians have proposed a youth curfew in response to the tragic death of another child.

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What We are Up Against
posted on SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 by Laura A. Talkington-Brady
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The protest at the Ventura Youth Prison on Sunday, August 21, 2011 was truly amazing. Everyone who attended gave it their all.

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DJJ Hurt My Child
posted on AUGUST 30, 2011 by Maria Sanchez
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This blog originally appeared as an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Daily News. Lourdes Duarte of Books Not Bars participates in Close DJJ rally

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Remembering Not To Forget
posted on AUGUST 24, 2011 by Rhina Ramos
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I had forgotten their stories.  I had put away in my mind the incarceration of two of my younger siblings when they were teenagers.  My brother was maced into signing his confession, and imprisoned for almost a year.  My baby sister was sent hours away from home to a correctional facility in Arizona.

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Freedom for whom?
posted on AUGUST 16, 2011 by Rhina Ramos
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Ventura Youth Correctional Facility

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Torture in the DJJ
posted on AUGUST 11, 2011 by Joaquin DiazDeLeon
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  Joaquin, in Sacramento, sharing his DJJ experiences with elected officials

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The Horrible Truth of 24 Hour Lock-up
posted on JUNE 13, 2011 by Joaquin Sanchez
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Spending two years in the Division of Juvenile Justice, California’s youth prison system, changed my life forever. I will never forget the violence and devastation I witnessed.

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I Feel Your Pain, Sandy Fonzo
posted on FEBRUARY 25, 2011 by Laura Brady
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When I watched the news video of Sandy Fonzo, confronting the crooked judge who sent her son to prison, tears immediately started to run down my cheeks. My heart simply broke for this mom whose son committed suicide.  What touched my heart the most was all the pain I could see in her eyes, even through all of her anger.

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What I Learned in Prison
posted on JULY 28, 2010 by Kristin Hau'oli Schillinger
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When I joined the Ella Baker Center family in the spring of 2007, my biggest learning curve was related to our youth prison reform work.  I certainly agreed academically with our Books Not Bars platform, but I had very limited knowledge of just how badly broken our juvenile justice system really was.  I became educated—and outraged—quickly.  California, it seemed, was doing just about everything wrong when it came to helping kids who’ve made mistakes.

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