“We know that it makes sense to keep kids in school for $9,000 a year versus individuals in prison for $62,000 a year.”
This statement is the kind of thing you’d expect to hear from a leader in education or child welfare, right? What if I told you instead that the person who said this is a leader in the criminal justice system? In fact, no less than the Chief Justice for the California State Supreme Court Tani Cantil-Sakauye made this statement as part of a panel at a three-day summit held this month called: “Children Can Thrive: California’s Response to Adverse Childhood Experiences.”
[For more of this story, written by Parker Blackman, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...dren-can-thrive/8670]
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