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2 cze 2023 · June 2, 2023 5 AM PT. After a two-year wind-down, California is in the final weeks of closing its notoriously grim youth prison system, a landmark moment that arrives as juvenile crime...
22 lut 2023 · On September 30, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 823 requiring California’s state youth prisons to close by June 2023 (State of CA, 2020). SB 823 ushers in a new era of localized juvenile justice that is founded on community-based services and incarceration alternatives.
The California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), previously known as the California Youth Authority (CYA), was a division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that provided education, training, and treatment services for California's most serious youth offenders, until its closure in 2023.
28 cze 2023 · California’s state-run youth correctional system, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), is set to close at the end of June 2023, bringing an end to the state’s 132 -year history of systemic abuse. To mark this historic moment, our report details DJJ ’s shameful past and examines its lessons for the future.
On June 30, 2023, California closed its state-run youth correctional system, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). DJJ, formerly the California Youth Authority (CYA), had a 132-year history of neglect and abuse.
14 sie 2023 · Reports of unsanitary living conditions, physical and sexual abuse, and even fight clubs run by staff plagued the state for years, and in 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 823, legislation that would close California’s state-run youth prison system.
24 mar 2023 · For decades, youth advocacy groups have called for the dismantling of California's notoriously troubled state-run juvenile prison system, accusing staff of excessive brutality and staff shortages that have led to dangerous living conditions, including violence, drug overdoses and suicide.
