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Big Changes for Juvenile Justice in California

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Half the inmates in California’s Juvenile Justice System are about to be sent home, but not because they’ve served out their sentences. We’ll also hear why the cost of re-building will be so much more than it was after the last big fires.

Making News

San Diego Rebuilding Costs to Soar ()

As they do after every round of wildfires, thousands of victims are promising to rebuild, but that will be more expensive than it’s been in the past.  Since San Diego’s Cedar and Paradise fires in 2003, the cost of residential construction has been going up by as much as 35 to 45 percent.  

Guests:
  • Dean Calbreath: Business reporter and Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune
  • Alan Gin: Associate Professor of Economics at the University of San Diego
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Main Topic

Bill Would Send California Juvenile Offenders Back to Their Counties ()

Half the inmates in California’s Juvenile Justice System are about to be sent home—but not because they’ve served out their sentences. Non-violent offenders are spending 23 hours a day in their cells without the rehabilitation and treatment the law provides, and they end up more troubled and dangerous than when they went in.  Now, it’s up to the counties to try to do better.

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

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