-The Atlanta Post, March 16, 2011 by Charlotte Young
http://atlantapost.com/2011/03/16/numbers-of-young-african-american-women-in-prison-rise/

According to Barry Krisberg … African American girls face brutality, emotional and sexual abuse once they are in the prison system.

-The Economist, Special Report, March 17, 2011
http://www.economist.com/node/18359882?story_id=18359882

Now, as Barry Krisberg of Berkeley Law School points out, some 170,000 people are locked up there, and CCPOA has 31,000 members. From the air California can look like an archipelago of prisons.

-San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 2011 by Chip Johnson
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/14/BAUR1IB04S.DTL

“California used to have a network of youth forestry camps that taught kids to fight fires and how to reclaim pieces of the wilderness; that taught them discipline and self-respect and hard work…. And those are things many of them would like to do instead of sitting around and waiting for the next gang fight,” Krisberg added.

-New American Media, EthnoBlog, March 15, 2011 by Rachel Pfeffer
http://bit.ly/i93nma

“Once in the criminal justice system, African American girls are treated with brutality, so much emotional and sexual abuse. We are violating African American girls’ human rights everyday in all 58 counties of California. Where are the lawsuits? Where is the accountability?”

-California Watch, March 14, 2011 by Louis Freedberg
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/browns-plan-shut-down-youth-prisons-derailed-9158

“Our county juvenile justice system is akin to the Wild West,” said Barry Krisberg, director of the Earl Warren Institute at the UC Berkeley Law School. “Here there are no real standards, and as a result, practices can be good in some places and horrible in other places.”

-KALW News, The Informant, March 14, 2011 by Rina Palta
http://informant.kalwnews.org/2011/03/the-trouble-with-county-juvenile-halls/

Sending more kids to a place like Los Angeles, Krisberg has said, would be unconscionable–worse than the state system, which Krisberg says, has its own (lesser) problems. The counter-argument has been that LA and other troubled counties simply will not change until forced to, and that shutting the DJJ could be a catalyst for change.

-USA Today, March 15, 2011 by Martha Moore
http://usat.ly/fz1mSe

“I’ve seen too many kids die because the state wasn’t appropriately regulating what was going on at the local level,” says Barry Krisberg, a Berkeley law professor and juvenile justice expert.

San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 2011 by Marisa Lagos
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-02-16/news/28538700_1_teens-free-e-editions-prison

“If I’m a prosecutor, and could try someone as an adult, why wouldn’t I? Then the state gets to pay for their incarceration,” said Barry Krisberg … who specializes in juvenile justice. “What incentive is there to send them to a county program, where the county has to pay and they are really different than the other kids they are working with?”

Oakland Tribune, February 16, 2011 by Sean Maher
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_17407163

Barry Krisberg, a gang injunctions expert and lecturer at UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, testified that gang injunctions generally do more harm than good to communities and that defining “gang members” is troubling because of the term’s ambiguity.

KCRW-FM, Which Way L.A.?, February 10, 2011 Host Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww110210should_the_states_yo

“If the only concern is saving money, well, yeah, we could just put these young people into prisons. And that would save money in the short haul, but we’d be paid back in terms of higher recidivism rates and future violence.”

KALW News, The Informant, February 10, 2011 by Ali Winston
http://informant.kalwnews.org/2011/02/barry-krisberg-on-oaklands-gang-injunctions/

“I know almost no district attorney who’s an advocate of street injunctions and that should tell us something, if the primary law enforcement officers around the state don’t see this as something they need or want.”

-California Watch, January 20, 2011 by David Gross and Michael Montgomery
http://bit.ly/emiafk

Barry Krisberg … said the state still needs a small facility for older, gang-entrenched youth….”It is a difficult population, in terms of violence and serious sex offenses,” he said. “It is my view that the counties are not equipped to adequately provide for these youth. One consequence is we will push more of them into the (adult) prison system.”

-The New York Times, The Bay Citizen, January 22, 2011 by Trey Bundy
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/us/23bcjuvenile.html

Barry Krisberg … said that keeping young offenders at the county level might offer them fewer rehabilitation options. “I would bet that those kids would end up in juvenile hall, in isolation, getting fewer services,” Mr. Krisberg said. “I don’t think we can shut down the entire state system.”

-KALW News, January 27, 2011 by Rina Palta
http://bit.ly/gkPwqH

Krisberg says some county facilities are known for being worse than the states’. “So we’re taking them out of not very great facilities, kind of passable programming, and we’re putting them into hell.”

-KQED-FM, January 27, 2011 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201101270900

“These are some of the most troubled youths in terms of mental health challenges. My concern is that the counties really are not geared up to manage these youths, and they’ll probably find their way to the deepest end of the detention centers where programming education is going to be far more limited than what they’re getting now.”

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, December 30, 2010 by Michael Brissenden
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s3104015.htm

“It’s fairly typical in a Californian prison to have hundreds and hundreds of inmates in triple bunks in what used to be gymnasiums or cafeterias. It’s a horrendous situation; California has prisons that you’d expect to see in the third world.”

Youth Today, December 15, 2010 by John Kelly
http://w.youthtoday.org/view_article.cfm?article_id=4504

“I have serious problems with the compromise with exposing youth to prosecution,” he said, but “I believe those provisions will fall apart because they’re unworkable” in the actual practice of prosecuting crimes…. Meanwhile, he said, most states are facing budget shortfalls and tough choices about cuts to youth services. “If there’s a way to get some federal funding to communities to do good things, I’m for it.”