Listen to Kim McGill speaking on KPFA this morning, near the end of the news during the YOUTH INCARCERATION segment. 

Visit Youth Justice Coalition's site to view their campaign to SHUT DOWN CYA/DJJ!!

Campaign: Develop a plan to close all CYA/DJJ facilities by 2010. Replace them with small (50 bed maximum), community-based facilities that focus on youth development, education, job training, and drug treatment. Immediately bring L.A.’s youth home from CYA/DJJ – use Camp Challenger as an alternative to CYA/DJJ until new programs can be developed. If these aren’t enough solutions for shutting down CYA/DJJ and creating something better, then do it because during the recent past, five youth died in California Youth Authority. Do it out of respect for Roberto Lombana, 19; Deon Whitfield, 17; Durrell Feaster, 18; Joseph Daniel Maldonado, 18; and Dyron M. Brewer, 24.