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Webcasts
Know Your Rights in Juvenile Justice System:
How to Navigate through the Juvenile Justice System
A guide for Asian Pacific Islander youth and parents (in English), 2009
This video provides guidance to immigrant parents who often face language and cultural barriers if their child enters the juvenile justice system. Produced by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the video includes interviews with community members as well as with staff from community organizations, the local probation department, and the public defender's office.
10 Question Inevitability
Does Seattle Need A New Jail? - Silja J.A. Talvi (Part One), 2009
Silja J.A. Talvi is a full-time investigative journalist and essayist, and a senior editor of the national monthly magazine, In These Times. (For over 30 years, In These Times has been dedicated to independent political reporting, incisive cultural commentary, and progressive social change.) Her articles on criminal justice, ethnicity, gender, poverty and immigration have garnered almost two dozen regional and national awards, including a recent literary award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for her non-fiction book, "Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System" (Seal Press/Perseus, 2007).
San Francisco Reentry Summit
2006
Saying, "All reentry is local," Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime & Delinquency, advocates for close cooperation with local community at the 2006 San Francisco Reentry Summit. September 27, 2006, Milton Marks Conference Center, The State Building, Lower Level, 455 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA: Making Rehabilitation Work: Creating Opportunities for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals.
Prisoners per 100,000 People in 30 Countries
2005
Which country incarcerates the most of it's citizens? Learn the answer with this video. The data source is the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. (Video not produced by NCCD.)
System Failure:
Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the California Youth Authority, 2004
Human rights video group Witness documents the systemic failures of Califorinia's youth "justice" agency, the California Youth Authority (CYA), and the movement to change it. The video portrays the rehabilitation facililies of the system as "warehouses of abuse and neglect" citing a series of reports which "... revealed horrific conditions, including 23 hour a day solitary confinement and extreme levels of violence, sexual assault, guard abuse, and medical, educational, and mental health care neglect."