August, 2008
San Jose Mercury News
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
The closings of DeWitt Nelson Youth Correctional Facility and El Paso de Robles Youth Correctional Facility - two notorious youth prisons - are welcome news for the youths and their families who have been permanently scarred by California's abusive youth prison system. A youth prison system that has crippled California's Budget and darkened California's future. > more
The Stockton Record
Friday, August 1, 2008
Books Not Bars marked the official closure Thursday of a Stockton-area youth prison by shouting outside the gates for a wholesale shutdown of the state's Division of Juvenile Justice. > more
