The Sacramento Bee, August 26, 2010 Web post
http://bit.ly/9yMODm (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

Barry Krisberg, senior fellow at Berkeley Law’s Center for Criminal Justice … says the juvenile justice system needs to be better equipped to respond to female offenders. “Young women need different specialized care and support than young men. Many young women have suffered from high levels of sexual and physical abuse and often need different medical care than boys. Some of these young women have children themselves and need to be in contact with them. Every level of staff in the juvenile justice system needs to be sensitized to these differences.”

The New York Times, The Bay Citizen, August 13, 2010 by Richard Parks
http://nyti.ms/c03kNd

“We’ve been doing policing more or less the same way for a couple hundred years,” said Barry Krisberg, a criminologist at the Center for Criminal Justice at the University of California, Berkeley. “We’ve reached a point financially where we have to start exploring new ways to deliver law enforcement.”

San Francisco Chronicle, August 11, 2010 by Robert Rogers and Guilherme Kfouri
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/11/BA0R1EPNJS.DTL

“It’s not a simple problem, but progress could be faster,” said Barry Krisberg, a fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. “How can we continue to condone overt segregation in any (state-supported) accommodations? Going into prison in California has, for decades, meant getting inculcated with an extremely racist mentality,” he said.

ABC7, Beyond the Headlines, July 25, 2010 Host Cheryl Jennings
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=resources/lifestyle_community/community&id=7576739

”I think that increasingly we’re seeing that young people who get involved in violence have themselves been victims or witnesses of violence in their homes. So to the extent that we have serious and sustained problems of child abuse and domestic violence, that feeds this problem. Unemployment creates this as well. Certainly gangs have a major influence in terms of propelling young people towards violent behavior.”

KGO-AM, July 12, 2010 Hosts Chris Brecher and Bret Burkhart
http://kgoradio.com/ (link no longer archived; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for soundbites)

“We’re in a tough financial bind, we’re losing lots of municipal services and the question is: what else are we giving up here? Are we giving up counselors for kids in school? Are we closing shelters for victims of domestic violence? I think we have to look at the whole picture. You can’t keep a society together just with police officers. Obviously police are important and they can do important things, but it’s not the only thing that government is supposed to do.”

California Watch, July 6, 2010 by Timothy Sandoval
http://www.californiawatch.org/watchblog/what-do-police-think-about-kamala-harris

“We want an attorney general who is respected by law enforcement,” he said, “but I don’t think it is as critical (to) the groups that represent district attorneys.”

Contra Costa Times, June 16, 2010 by Scott Smith
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_15303340?nclick_check=1

“What you have in prison is almost a hothouse,” Krisberg said. “We put together a large number of people who are generally powerless over their lives…. The gang gives them an alternative identity.”

Contra Costa Times, June 12, 2010 by Mediha Fejzagic DiMartino
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_15283999

“Before, a judge had an option to commit them to the California Youth Authority,” said Barry Krisberg, a senior fellow and lecturer in residence at the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. “Now the county has to bear the cost of it.”

-The Daily Journal, May 28, 2010 by Sandra Hernandez
http://www.dailyjournal.com/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

“There is no uniform screening test or tool for even diagnosing severe mental health conditions such as a juvenile who is bipolar or schizophrenic.”

-The San Diego Union-Tribune, May 30, 2010 by Jeff McDonald
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/30/more-state-parolees-getting-less-supervision/

“They’re being asked to manage an extraordinary number of people,” Barry Krisberg, a distinguished senior fellow at the University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, said of the corrections system. “People get released who shouldn’t be released. Then you have people who should have been released but stay longer. The system can’t even manage the basics.”

-The Bay Citizen, May 31, 2010 by Angela Kilduff, Robert Rogers, Steve Saldivar and Karen McIntyre
http://www.baycitizen.org/prisons/story/children-chowchilla/

“California locks up more women, and more mothers, than any other state in America,” said Barry Krisberg…. “The collateral consequences are substantial.”

-The Crime Report, May 31, 2010 by Barry Krisberg
http://thecrimereport.org/2010/05/31/the-slow-march-to-justice-for-children/

There is growing evidence that children placed in prisons and jails are more likely than adults to commit suicide, to be subject to rape, and that the minors spend more of their confinement time in segregation. Moreover, there are many juveniles sentenced to long prison terms for non-lethal behavior, such as conspiracy or alleged gang involvement. But there is no credible research supporting the theory that these harsh penalties increase public safety.