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This Week in Northern California, KQED's weekly news affairs program with host Belva Davis, aired a special report on juvenile justice on April 26, 2002.

The show, moderated by host Belva Davis, was held as a town hall-style meeting between a panel of three juvenile justice experts and an extended panel of experts at the forefront of the issue. A complete list of panelists is available below.

To listen the archived audio from the show, visit This Week in Northern California's audio archive.

For additional comments or questions, please visit the show's discussion board.

The show also featured two field reports on the juvenile justice system. Watch these here:

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An overview of the current state of Northern California's juvenile justice system, this report looks specifically at the proposed Alameda County "Super Jail" and efforts by local youth organization Books Not Bars to stop construction of the facility.

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Youth writers read from The Beat Within, a weekly magazine written by young people taking part in writing workshops in San Francisco's juvenile hall. For more writing and art from The Beat Within, visit the Local Youth Media Gallery on this site.

Main Panel

• James Bell
W. Haywood Burns Institute
www.burnsinstitute.org
Youth Law Center
www.youthlawcenter.com

• Barry Krisberg
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
www.nccd-crc.org

• Russell Morse
Youth, Pacific News Service
www.youthoutlook.org/

Extended Panelists

• Garry Bieringer
Huckleberry Youth Programs/CARC
www.huckleberryyouth.org

• Rose Braz
Critical Resistance
www.criticalresistance.org

• Kamala Harris
San Francisco City Attorney's office
www.sfgov.org/cityattorney/

• Rachel Jackson*
Books Not Bars
www.booksnotbars.org
*Rachel Jackson is also featured in the Voices from the Trenches section of this site.

• Tanya Lee
Coleman Advocates
www.colemanadvocates.org

• Dr. Joe Marshall
Omega Boys Club
www.street-soldiers.org

• Tiffany McElroy
Center for Young Women's Development
www.cywd.org

• Julie Posadas
Girls Youth Service Unity, Youth Guidance Center
www.ci.sf.ca.us/juvprobation/

• Andrea Shorter
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
www.cjcj.org

• Chief Jesse Williams*
San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department
www.ci.sf.ca.us/juvprobation/
*Chief Jesse Williams is also featured in the Voices from the Trenches section of this site.

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