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Dan Macallair

Daniel Macallair is the executive director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice and a longtime faculty member in Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State University.

California Built Too Many Youth Jails. Why Are We Still Paying To Keep Them Open?

5/11/2026

California Built Too Many Youth Jails. Why Are We Still Paying To Keep Them Open?

Closing some of California's county-run youth incarceration facilities is the only way to eliminate the excess capacity and structural incentives that sustain confinement, writes Daniel Macallair.