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The Center for Public Integrity: iWatch News (January 25, 2012) — California, often a trendsetter, could make history if it approves Gov. Jerry Brown’s bid to close all state-run youth prisons and eliminate its state Division of Juvenile Justice.
KALW (January 17, 2012) — The On Today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the economic realities of white, black and brown Americans. According to the Pew Research Survey, two out of three Americans now perceive strong social conflicts over the income gap — up sharply from two years ago.
(January 12, 2012) — The LA County Board of Supervisors is due to vote this month on approving Baca’s application. But groups like the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, the Youth Justice Coalition, and Californians United for a Responsible Budget, are collecting signatures to petition the County Board of Supervisors to vote against the deal.
Bay Citizen (January 10, 2012) — For the second time in one year, Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed permanently closing the Division of Juvenile Justice, a move that would make California the first state in the nation to eliminate its youth prison system and shift responsibility for the most dangerous young offenders to counties.
ABC / KGO (January 9, 2012) — California's youth prison system may soon cease to exist, ending a notorious legacy that included 23-hour cell confinements, using cages as punishment for misbehaving and staff beatings, sometimes caught on tape.
KALW (January 9, 2012) — Almost a year after seemingly giving up on the idea, Governor Jerry Brown again announced that he’ll close the Division of Juvenile Justice, California’s youth prison system.
Examiner (January 7, 2012) — Families, youth, human rights groups hail Gov. Brown's aim to close youth prisons for brighter future with safer communities and more peaceful families.
Mercury News (January 6, 2012) — [Families for Books Not Bars member], Marie Sanchez said the state prison experience has battered her son. In visits, he has limped, sported a black eye and showed her bruises on his ribs, she said.
USA Today (December 16, 2011) — Amidst all the rhetoric surrounding the Occupy movement, the spirit of perseverance shared by many people, uniting around a goal of making change happen, persists.
Mercury News (December 11, 2011) — "This is a huge opportunity to take advantage of the many services and organizations in Alameda County," said Sumayyah Waheed, of the Ella Baker Center.
Oakland North (December 10, 2011) — “He is an incredible bridge-builder,” Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont, the Executive Director of Oakland Rising, an organization that works on social justice issues, with which Imani was also involved.
SF Weekly (November 30, 2011) — "You're quicker to use things like that because you're told that this is not lethal, when in all actuality, your haste in using them can prove to be deadly," Habtegeorgis said. "If police are going to have these weapons that can be deadly, they should use the same precaution they would use for a gun."
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