-KQED-FM, California Report, October 4, 2011 Reporter Scott Shafer
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201110040850/a
“The data kind of speaks for itself. Juvenile crime has been going down pretty dramatically. We haven’t seen any increase in youth ending up in the prison system, so the results look pretty positive.”
-Colorlines, October 5, 2011 by Jorge Rivas
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/10/study_locking_juvenile_offenders_behind_bars_is_costly_and_ineffective.html
“We need to reduce incarceration of young people to the very small dangerous few. And we’ve got to recognize that if we lock up a lot of kids, it’s going to increase crime.”
-KQED-FM, Forum, October 6, 2011 Host Dave Iverson
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201110060930
“There’s over 20 counties that currently have court-ordered caps on their jails…. By all indications, many of these jails have much lower risk people who, with some smart programming, can be moved out to make room for the state folks.”
-The New York Times, October 8, 2011 by Jennifer Medina
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/us/california-begins-moving-prisoners.html
“This is the largest change in the California state system in my lifetime,” said Barry Krisberg…. “Given that what we had was completely broken and was the most expensive, overcrowded and least effective in America, there’s some hope that this will change it.”