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Come July, California Will Swap Juvenile Jails for Reform-Minded Rehab Centers
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Come July, California Will Swap Juvenile Jails for Reform-Minded Rehab Centers

Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black MediaMarch 18, 2021

Starting in July, California’s youth prisons will no longer be accepting new inmates, with a few exceptions. The state is moving most of the estimated 750 children it currently houses in its three remaining detention centers to rehabilitation facilities.

In California, the percentage of Black youth among incarcerated juveniles in California is nearly six times the percentage of African American children in the state. Children serving time in juvenile prisons are 30% Black and about 60% Latino even though African Americans account for nearly 6 % of California’s total population of about 40 million people. Latinos make up about 39 %

Biden Administration to Appoint Kristen Clarke to Key Civil Rights Post
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Biden Administration to Appoint Kristen Clarke to Key Civil Rights Post

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentJanuary 21, 2021

Clarke’s appointment adds even more diversity to an incoming administration that has kept its campaign promise to ensure that top staff and cabinet members reflect all of America. “Our first-rate nominees to lead the Justice Department are eminently qualified, embody character and judgment that is beyond reproach, and have devoted their careers to serving the American people with honor and integrity,” Biden said in a statement.

You Can Now Contribute to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline
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You Can Now Contribute to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Assemblymember Reggie Jones-SawyerMarch 28, 2019

In the state of California approximately 56,000 youth are arrested every year, two-thirds of those arrests are for status offenses or misdemeanors such as: truancy, running away from home, curfew violation, underage drinking, and the alarmingly vague “incorrigibility”. Approximately 8 out of 10 youth arrested are referred to probation and of these youth, a quarter of them are detained, ultimately contributing to the School to Prison Pipeline.