Footnotes News in Brief Synthesizing the News Why Does Gavin Newsom Want to Move Juvenile Justice Out of the Department of Corrections? Research has long shown that detention of youth can cause harm and is ineffective at preventing crime. Kelley Czajka
Social Justice How Over-Incarceration Is Driving a Push for Criminal Justice Reform A conversation with Jasmine Heiss from the Vera Institute of Justice about a recent poll that uncovers American's souring sentiment toward incarceration policy. Teresa Mathew
Social Justice U.S. Prison Populations Drifting Down Hammered by budget shortfalls and seeing declines in crime rates, 20 states have reduced inmate counts. Lewis Beale