Change in the Treatment of California Youth Authority Inmates; Gang Injunctions; Blogging; Lewis & Clark Scholar: Landon Jones
Change in the Treatment of California Youth Authority Inmates
Governor Schwarzenegger’s administration announced Monday that it will put therapy and positive reinforcement at the heart of the California’s Youth prison system, rejecting the present more punitive approach. Joining Larry is Nancy Lungren, CYA, Assistant Director for Communications and Public Affairs, Gloria Romero, State Senate Majority Leader and and Chair of the Senate Select Committee on the California Correctional System, David Steinhart, Director of the Commonweal Juvenile Justice Program, and Lance Corcoran, spokesman for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association.
Gang Injunctions
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office obtained a court-ordered gang injunction yesterday, issued to curb violence by the 42nd, 43rd, and 48th street gangs. The injunction creates a “safety zone” in South Los Angeles that is bounded by Washington Boulevard, Alameda Street, and Slauson and Florence Avenues—a large area. Joining the conversation is Jeff Grogger, professor of public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He has studied how injunctions work in Los Angeles. Larry also speaks with Marty Vranicar, Assistant City Attorney and the head of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Gang Unit, John Burris, a civil rights attorney in Oakland, California, who represented Rodney King, and Sister Menenhall, Vice Chair of the Watts Neighborhood Council and a Gang Intervention Counselor and Consultant.
Blogging
The LA Press Club just added a new awards category: Weblogs! Whatever you think about them, Blogs are now an established new media. They have affected journalism in interesting ways, and connect local communities like never before. Larry Mantle speaks with Mark Frauenfelder and Kevin Roderick, the founders of two popular LA-based blogs, respectively, Boing Boing and LAObserved.com about blogs, bloggers and how they have affected our world.
Lewis & Clark Scholar: Landon Jones
Larry Mantle talks with Lewis and Clark scholar Landon Jones about his new book William Clark and the Shaping of the West a biography of the co-captain of the most famous expedition in American history. In addition to being half of the fabled pair of explorers, William Clark, until his death in 1838, ranked as the leading federal official in the West. He was the point man for six presidents, from Jefferson to Van Buren. Clark was the one white man the Indians on both sides of the Mississippi thought they could trust. And yet, his treaties would extinguish Indian rights to millions of acres on either side of the Mississippi. It is this latter part, Clark’s controversial efforts to reconcile the clashing interests of Indians, westward moving settlers, and the federal government, that is least known and most eye-opening.