. >> 18-year-old ricky pizano is a regular in the juvenile justice system. over the past four years he has spent a total of 266 days here in lake county juvenile. and more recently another 16 months at a residential placement facility in nevada. when he didn't return to his placement in nevada after a weekend home pass, ricky was picked up on a bench warrant. >> one of my boys, he got shot. i had to take him to the hospital. they ran my name at the hospital. i still had a warrant for placement. >> though he is now 18 and technically an adult, he will have to face the juvenile court one final time. >> when i think about sitting in the juvenile. i'm 18. as soon as i get out of here i'm on my own. a lot of younger kids are going home to mommy and daddy. i'm going back to the streets. i ain't going to lie or tell a fairytale. i'm going back to the streets. >> ricky began looking for kinship and guidance on the streets before he was even a teenager. >> my dad was incarcerated. i didn't know him. my mom got incarcerated when i was like 8 or 9. i was hanging out wit

increased consciousness and awareness of the issues that affect public safety in criminal and juvenile justice reform. i am proud to say that this is the ninth summit. we take on issues like closing the california youth authority. and we in the confinement of youth -- young children in -- and the prisoner re-entry program and abolishing the death penalty. we take on three critical issues. the first panel has a riveting discussion about gangs. and reducing gang violence. on our panel are former gang members, gang intervention workers, police, public defenders, and researchers. we talk about strategies to reduce gang violence. i will introduce the keynote speaker in a moment. the second panel is a cutting edge -- cutting edge discussion about the relationship between the human brain and criminal behavior. we have top experts from all parts of the country to talk about what the brain research shows. that is the key to understanding how human beings behave, and why they may commit acts of violence. the afternoon's panel will have a debate about a proposed law that would reduce felony drug possessi

there are a few places in this world more tightly secured than the closed confines of america's juvenile justice system. but for some kids the revolving door of lockup seems to snag one generation after the next. >> my dad, he's locked up. so right now it's just my mom and my six sisters and my nieces and nephews and my brother and they all have no man of the house to look up to, to teach them what's right and what's wrong, so it's been hard. >> 30 miles south of chicago mary beth presides over a numbing juvenile docket. 32000 cases in 2008 alone. it's her job to make sure the kids that come to this detention center and court complex leave here and forget there's an option of graduating to the adult prison system. >> i think some children are born into a situation that's a bad one. in some neighborhoods it's like do unto others before they do it to you. for those of us not raised in those types of neighborhoods it is difficult to understand. sometimes it's just the survival. they have to perpetrate before they're perpetrated against. >> for years msnbc has been documenting the tragic stories tha

. >> for years, msnbc has been documenting the tragic stories that unfold in america's juvenile justice system. with extraordinary access from the indiana supreme court, we've been allowed to take our cameras inside a world where they are by law generally forbidden. in the intake department, elizabeth prepares to process yet another juvenile. this time a 17-year-old girl arriving at the detention center. >> intake. what did she run away from? >> she ran away from her mother's house. but she's denying running away and saying she was at her grandmother's house with her baby because her mother kicked her out. and that she went home for something and then her mother called the police. so we'll find out. >> unlock door. >> kymyada, come on out. >> i'm upset because i'm back here again, but this time it's a misunderstanding. when i was 14 the first time i ran away my mom is going to whoop me for something i didn't do. i couldn't take it no more. i run away fighting her just going wild because nobody was paying attention to me. >> do you remember the intake process? the last time when you were

county supervisors meetings, the members who pass out fliers, the youths who have been in the juvenile justice system that are now part of the coalition -- those individuals must have a seat at the table. no. 2. community-based organizations. that operate on a shoestring and often without any kind of coverage anywhere. they must be legitimized and made part of the conversation. i have witnessed this with homeboy industries. how many people have heard about this? in california i rarely have to worry. i was in green bay and i started to talk about father greg and no one had any idea what i was talking about. i have known greg boyle for 25 years. i worked with him when he routinely received death threats. people believed he was trying to help gang members. the lapd called him a hug- hugger. i will repeat everything that they have said, not because of sore afraid of using profanity but because it was a different lapd. it was rumored that the mexican mafia was allowed to meet in his church and that he held guns for gang members. and he was helping gang members across the border. i am certain he kne

. >> for years msnbc has been documenting the tragic stories that unfold in america's juvenile justice system. with extraordinary access from the indiana supreme court, we go inside a world where cameras are, by law, forbidden. >> how are you guys going to do this? you going to do it on your own? did you try to do it on your own before? did it work? >> for some of the kids locked up in lake county juvenile, the pressures are more than most teens can imagine. never has this been so painfully clear than when 16-year-old ayryana gets a visit from her mother. >> you can't go to girls school. because it's like you're the center of the household. you can't go to girls school. what is everybody going to do? >> going to girls school means going to juvenile prison. a frightening prospect on her own. but ayryana also has to face what her absence could mean to the welfare of her entire family. >> on top of that, i have to pay your fees while i'm here tonight. that's $110 plus the money i lost saturday, which was overtime. >> because ayryana's mom works swing shifts at the local factory, it's up t

we go inside of san quentin, we go inside of the county jail, the juvenile justice system. all entities --

we go inside of san quentin, we go inside of the county jail, the juvenile justice system. all entities -- the whole family is incarcerated. we want to kill the whole family. that is why we go when -- we want to heal the whole family. that is why we go in. we believe in empathy, we believe this violence is a learned behavior. restored of justice does work. -- restorative justice does work. [applause] >> elizabeth, you have been on both sides. as a teenager, you were a recipient of services. today, you are working in youth development. what do you think the answer is in reducing gang violence? >> i want to give thanks for another day here and an opportunity to share this space with everybody. all of the beautiful courage that it takes to be up here. a lot of energy to the healing circle as well. as a juvenile, i was in juvenile hall and i went through that whole system myself. i have worked with tattoo removal, i went to other development programs. through personal experience and being raised by a single mom and being proud of my dad imprisoned and now pursuing my education,

and bachman is well known in finland for his controversial views he's an outspoken critic of juvenile justice and calls finland's child protection system fascist and believes that shifting the functions of state to private companies is a flawed process. we have an industry that is. concentrated on the counter for trade with children so they the social workers and their close relatives or friends or whatever they establish private children's homes and we have in finland according to the official statistics we have approximately six hundred private private children's homes which are private companies and they are allowed to. earn for every children that is taken by the authorities to the children's private children's home even several hundreds of yours per day. blackman is an active participant in practically every child case associated with the removal of children from russian mothers in autumn twenty twelve he did everything he could to help honest as he is a good man. yes september two thousand and twelve the finnish social authorities decided to take four children from a loss to see a. woma

youth out because if you don't help them out you know where they're going to end up, in the juvenile justicem. so that money to get to school, plus helping them with tutors, plus letting them know that the city is behind them, the county is behind them, that will make a better society. thank you. >> supervisor wiener: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is jane martin from power. so we're excited that we're on the verge of launching this program, mta is committed. and i want to thank supervisor chu and director risken for your comments so we're not at a choice. we have opportunity to invest both in maintenance in the system and in the youth at this point. we are a little frustrated that we're even here today, given that the board of supervisors has voted in favor of this program, that the mta board has voted in favor of it, the school board, the youth commission, the mayor has supported it. and we're a little disappointed quite frankly, supervisor wiener, as a transit advocate that you would choose to distance yourself from the families and the youth and the children who rely o

i read a story in texas and expulsions and suspensions are a direct pipeline to the juvenile justice system and the punitive approach doesn't fix anything. i can happily point you to that study and makes cases against that school discipline, but holly has come up with a really wonderful solution within law enforcement that we would love you to talk about and it's preventive and solution. >> thank you. it's not going to be a shock to you that i don't have a sizzle reel but i did manage to get a few powerpoint slides in so it's a good thing if i can get my next one. can you advance it for me please? so it is a safety course that i created with yahoo. we partnered together. i started asking questions the first day so my boots are on the ground and i'm in the schools and i love doing what i do, and i believe wholeheartedly and i believe it was the soft power -- yes, i love it. i think it's effective in so many ways, so i had luckily teamed up with the right people at yahoo who were really amazing and just the foresight they saw, and believed in the concept that law enforcement needs to b

for years, msnbc has been documenting the tragic stories that unfold in america's juvenile justice system with extraordinary access from the indiana supreme court, we've been allowed to take our cameras inside a world where they are, by law, generally forbidden. >> i've been coming to lake county juvenile since like, three oh five. one of them years. been coming here for a long time. >> 17-year-old roderick is back in lake county juvenile after being arrested for marijuana possession and resisting arrest. according to roderick, he had been on a good straight and pharoah path working towards becoming an electrician, covering up gang tattoos and preparing for the rival of a second child. >> i know you don't want your son living the same lifestyle you live. >> when i got out of boot camp and found out i supposedly had a child it changed me. i just can't live for like gang banging. i was just going to go back to school and complete this last year and get on with my life. >> so you ready to tell me it you ready to leave the streets alone downward? >> roderick insists he is innocent. he says th

>> i do criminal justice policy and i focus on juvenile justice. federal title that come down through the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. so the office that i ran distributed those grant funds within the state and also issued policy briefs to the governor and to the legislature about what's the best avenues for that work. >> bill: that's a huge responsibility. yeah. how much money were you dealing with every year? >> we were dealing with about -- so we had a grant size of about $1.8 million that came through every year. we would have some funds in reserve so our funds went back to about 2009. so we had about $6 million. >> bill: great job like that with all of that responsibility. living in one of the greatest cities on the planet. chicago. why did you want to leave and come back here and be a white house fellow? first all, how did you find out about it? >> it is interesting. >> bill: you knew cindy. >> no, no, no. >> bill: little conspiracy. >> there was no insider game. >> bill: no? >> i actually didn't know about the progr

there are some who, unfortunately, touch our juvenile and adult probation criminal-justice system, and we try to find ways to correct that path and to create supportive mechanisms. we are rich in services in many ways with interventions as much as we can to redirect our youth or to help victims and their families as best we can. sometimes not perfectly, but the best we can to assist them in their recovery. and so it was right for me to talk about this in a very deliberate way, to talk to other mayors across the country and ask what they are doing to find out what is working and what is not working and then to bring back that conversation in a very direct way to our own communities here in san francisco. i know every person standing beside and behind the law of our communities, love this city. they would not be here unless they did, from the labor groups to become -- clergy groups to the community-based agencies, they really have a deep, deep love. i know it, and i know we have had these very sensitive discussions about these programs will have been done in other parts of the country, a

juvenile. meanwhile, the friends are grateful that men are off the streets. >> it helps with some closure. that he is not running around. and he can face justice for what he did. >> as this investigation continues the invectiv detectivs are trying to find out why this big age difference and the correlation is. in concord, alecia reed, kron 4. >> friends, family members of their last could buy for their life was cut short by a bullet. memorial services in campbell for rory pettiford on this attempted 7-eleven carjacking. >> this was a sad moment. the way that everything happened. you do not want to see somebody that young leave by that means. >> is a tragedy when a 22 year-old leaves their like. my condolences for the family as well. >> the coach and physical education teacher says that they will be missed for his great expense oa specially-for s great sense of humor. if there is a fund set up. >> this san jose party was broke up but phillipe djegal by police were called and how things got out of control. the most of the windows on this east san jose are broken because of rubber bullets. this man did not want his face shown elise also shot him