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MONDAY, FEB. 10 TUESDAY, FEB. 11 CONFERENCE ROOM L-61 VENUE: 9TH FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM 8:00 – 8:30am 12:45 – 2:15pm 8:00am – 8:30am 1:00 – 2:00pm CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST LUNCH CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST STORY LAB WORKSHOP 1: (PRIVATE FOR FELLOWS AND INVITED GUESTS) UNDERSTANDING 8:30am DISCUSSION OF TRENDS & 8:30 – 10:00am JUSTICE STATISTICS WELCOME ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE PANEL 5 Workshop Leaders: REPORTING THE CHALLENGE OF POLICING Jeremy Travis, President, John Jay College William J. Sabol, acting director, Bureau of Justice Presentation of CJJ year-end survey: THE WEB: BALANCING Statistics 8:35 – 9:10 am Speaker: Ted Gest, President Criminal Justice Journalists ECONOMIC SECURITY AND Ted Gest, President, Criminal Justice Journalists KEYNOTE & Q&A PRIVACY RIGHTS William J. Bratton, Commissioner, 2:15 – 3:45pm Tyson Johnson, Head of Business Development, 2:00 – 3:00pm New York Police Department PANEL 3: REBUILDING Bright Planet STORY LAB WORKSHOP 2: COMMUNITIES, SAVING LIVES: Carmen Ortiz, U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts MINING JUSTICE DATA 9:10 – 9:15am THE PRIVATE SECTOR’S ROLE CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION Tim Ryan, Managing Director, Kroll Advisory Solutions Workshop Leaders: Cyber Investigations Carol R. Naughton, Senior Vice-President, investigative reporter, Steve Handelman, Director, Center on Media, Crime Andrew Lehren, Purpose-Built Communities New York Times and Justice, John Jay College Moderator: Dara N. Byrne, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Navjeet K. Bal, Counsel, Public Finance Group, Ted Gest, President, Criminal Justice Journalists 9:15 – 10:45am Nixon Peabody Glenn Martin, Founder, Just LeadershipUSA 10:00 – 10:20am 3:00 – 3:15pm PANEL 1: BEYOND THE WAR BREAK ON CRIME: PUBLIC SAFETY Moderator: Katti Gray, Contributing Editor, BREAK The Crime Report THROUGH COMMUNITY 10:20am – 12:00pm RECOVERY AND REINVENTION 3:15 – 5:00pm 3:45 – 4:00pm PANEL 6: CONVERSATION ON JUSTICE, THE ECONOMY AND The Honorable Dana Redd, Mayor, Camden NJ BREAK CORRECTIONS THE MEDIA/PROJECTS James Craig, Chief, Detroit Police Department Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Moderator: Associate Director, Center 3:45 – 5:15pm Department of Corrections Joe Domanick, Dean Esserman, Chief, New Haven Police Department on Media, Crime and Justice PANEL 4: BREAKING THROUGH Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, California Department of Moderator: Jesse Wegman, NY Times Editorial Board THE INVISIBLE PRISON: Corrections and Rehabilitation 10:45 – 11:15am THE SECOND CHANCE Brad Livingston, Executive Director, Texas BREAK ENTREPRENEURS Department of Criminal Justice Robert Scates, Activist, The Green Light Movement Adam Gelb, Director, Pew Public Safety Performance Project 11:15am – 12:45pm Rob Lilly, Founder, PowerHouse Events and Catering Moderator: Martin Horn, Distinguished Lecturer, John PANEL 2: CRIME TRENDS: Founder, Pigeonly CRIME AND THE ECONOMY Frederick Hutson, Jay College of Criminal Justice Moderator: John Valverde, Associate Executive Al Blumstein, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Director for Program Operations, The Osborne 12:00 – 1:00pm Richard Rosenfeld, Professor, University of Association WORKING LUNCH Missouri-St. Louis (LUNCH & FOLLOWING WORKSHOP PRIVATE FOR FELLOWS & INVITED GUESTS) Preeti Chauhan, Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Moderator: Steve Handelman, Director, Center on Media, Crime and Justice FORD, Beverly murder-suicide of a woman suffering from Beverly Ford is a Boston-based journalist and mental illness, and her child. author who has spent more than 20 years as a reporter and freelance writer for The Boston KASTE, Martin JOHN JAY/H.F. GUGGENHEIM Herald, The London Telegraph, Bloomberg Martin Kaste is a correspondent on NPR’s Na- News and other publications. She currently tional desk. He covers the Northwest, with an works as a freelancer for both the New Eng- emphasis on technology and privacy stories. REPORTING FELLOWS land Center for Investigative Reporting and In addition to general assignment reporting the New York Daily News. In addition to co- throughout the region, Kaste has contributed authoring the book, The Boston Mob Guide to NPR News coverage of major world events, in 2011, she was a ghost writer for the 1991 including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the ARMAGHAN, Sarah CLARK, JB book The Kennedys: Scandals and Tragedies 2011 uprising in Libya. Focusing on technol- Sarah Armaghan covers local politics, educa- JB Clark works as a law enforcement reporter and authored a book on domestic violence in ogy and privacy issues, Kaste has reported tion and crime for Newsday in Suffolk County, for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in 2001. In 1991, she was on a team of reporters on the government’s wireless wiretapping NY. At the start of her journalism career at the Tupelo, a post he has held for two years. He which won the Associated Press Spot News practices as well as the data-collection and New York Daily News, she spent four years previously wrote about education and politics Award, and received awards in 1991 and 1995 analysis that goes on behind the scenes in so- covering the New York Police Department and at the DeSoto Times-Tribune in DeSoto Coun- for juvenile justice reporting from Parents of cial media and other new media. His privacy crime throughout the city’s five boroughs. ty, Miss., a suburb of Memphis. He graduat- Murdered Children. She was a guest panelist reporting was cited in a US Supreme Court She worked as the overnight runner, chasing ed from the University of Mississippi’s Meek at a 2009 Neiman Foundation series at Har- opinion concerning GPS tracking. Before mov- breaking crime from midnight until 8 a.m., School of New Media in 2010 where he served vard University and has lectured on crime and ing to the West Coast, Kaste spent five years where she was able to see the city’s toughest for a year as the news editor of the school’s breaking news at local colleges and universities. as a reporter for NPR based in South America, neighborhoods in harrowing moments that student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian. where he covered the drug wars in Colombia, most people don’t ever get to experience. In He has a deep interest in public policy, how HOLLAND, Gail the financial meltdown in Argentina, the rise the Daily News’ Bronx Bureau, Sarah launched it affects average citizens in their day-to-day Gale Holland covers homelessness and pover- of Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a series called “Faces of Crime” where she de- lives, and especially how it can be used to heal ty for the Los Angeles Times. She started at the and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and other sto- tailed the accounts of gangbangers, victims Mississippi’s poverty and education woes. paper in 2005 as an assistant city editor over- ries. Prior to joining NPR in 2000, Kaste was a and families on both sides through their re- He and his wife April serve on the leadership seeing law enforcement and court coverage. policital reporter for Minnesota Public Radio in spective plights. Sarah has also covered the team at Origins Church in Tupelo and are pas- Three years later, she joined the paper’s higher St. Paul for seven years. Kaste is a graduate of NYPD and crime for The Wall Street Journal, sionate about trying to love and care for the education reporting team and spent two years Carleton College, in Northfield, MN. as well as politics, education and crime in less fortunate members of their community. working on a series on abuse and corruption Rockland County, NY for Newsday Westchester. in a $6 billion college construction program. KAVANAGH, Shane Dixon DAMRON, Gina She and her colleague Michael Finnegan won Shane Dixon Kavanaugh covers crime, crimi- BARNES, Greg Gina Damron covers public safety and crimi- the 2012 Worth Bingham investigative report- nal justice and breaking news for the Orego- Greg Barnes is the The Fayetteville Observer’s nal justice for the Detroit Free Press. She has ing award from the Nieman Foundation for the nian in Portland. He also regularly contributes Sunday editor, responsible for assigning and won national and state awards, including hon- series. She subsequently spent 1 ½� ������������years����������� writ- feature and enterprise stories for publications editing the centerpiece story for Sunday’s ors from the Michigan Associated Press Media ing news columns about city life before taking such as s the New York Times, Vocativ, and front page and regularly assisting the metro Editors, Best of Gannett, State Bar of Michigan on her latest assignment. She has worked for City Limits. A graduate of the City University editors. He often writes the centerpieces him- and Detroit Chapter of the Society of Profes- USA TODAY, Copley News and the LA Weekly, of New York Graduate School of Journalism, self. A reporter and an editor for more than sional Journalists. Damron was named SPJ and her writing has appeared in Newsday and he previously covered politics and economic 30 years, he was honored by the N.C. Press Detroit’s Young Journalist of the Year in 2011. the Guardian newspaper. A Los Angeles na- development for Crain’s New York. He also Association (NCPA) with public service and Most recently, she and fellow Free Press re- tive, she is struggling to understand why LA’s spent four years as the editor and publisher investigative awards each of the past three porter L.L. Brasier won the Silver Gavel Award skid row and homelessness have persisted of OVERFLOW, a quarterly print magazine in years for his special projects on the mental from the American Bar Association for their largely unchanged her entire adult life. Brooklyn. As a staff writer for the New York health of Fort Bragg soldiers. In 2012, Barnes investigation into problems in the Michigan Daily News, he covered crime and the NYPD won five NCPA awards, more than any other Department of Corrections. Damron, a gradu- JOHNSON, Elizabeth out of the paper’s police bureau. Prior to jour- reporter in the state’s largest newspaper divi- ate of Wayne State University, has served on Elizabeth Johnson covers crime and courts for nalism, Shane worked as a political consultant, sion, for stories including a finance company the Detroit SPJ board since June 2011. the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. A Kentucky na- a forest firefighter and a decorative interior owner who committed suicide after his Ponzie tive who graduated from Murray State Univer- painter. He grew up in Eugene, OR, and spent scheme was revealed. He graduated in 1982 DUKAKIS, Andrea sity in 2012, she completed internships at The 13 years bouncing around Brooklyn, N.Y. He with a journalism degree from Michigan State Andrea Dukakis has nearly two decades of ex- Tennessean and the Todd County Standard in now rooms and boards in Southeast Portland. University, where he worked as a reporter and perience with public radio, most recently as a Elkton, Ky., for which her investigative work the city editor of the student newspaper. He producer and reporter at Colorado Public Ra- on the murder of a 9-year-old girl and failures MERVOSH, Sarah started working as a reporter for the Fayette- dio. Before that, she worked at National Public within the state’s Cabinet for Health and Fam- Sarah Mervosh covers criminal justice issues, ville Times in 1985, leaving about a year later Radio in Washington, D.C. Her beats include ily Services was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. domestic violence and civil courts as a public to work for The Shreveport Times. He returned corrections, juvenile justice, health care, men- She moved to southwest Florida to work as safety reporter at The Dallas Morning News in 1989 to Fayetteville as editor, and has been tal health and the military. Andrea received the the law enforcement reporter at the Bradenton She has written about everything from human at the newspaper ever since. In October, 2012 media award from the American Legion Herald. There, she covered Manatee County’s trafficking victims to a barbecue master’s at- he engaged in a new project— using solutions for her reporting on military veterans, and has record-high year of homicides and wrote a tempt at a comeback after spending 16 years journalism to examine Fayetteville’s extensive received awards from the Associated Press, multi-part series on area gangs. Johnson be- in prison. Before joining the public safety crime problems and the initiatives that have the Colorado Broadcasters Association and gan working at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune team, she was a main reporter in the paper’s helped reduce crime in other cities. The Colorado Community Health Network. in April. As the cops reporter, she has written nationally-recognized coverage of a deadly She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from about the circuit’s increased focus on prose- fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. A na- Princeton University, and a Master’s degree in cuting white collar crimes and cases involving tive of Pittsburgh, she is making her way in the journalism from Columbia University. exploitation of the elderly, as well as the tragic Lone Star state with the help of her two cats, a pair of running shoes and too much chocolate. Tribune, covering city government and some cases. Smith has worked for North Central lowing years won awards in the state Asso- She joined The News in 2012 after graduating crime. His interests as a reporter are violence, Washington Media in Wenatchee, Wash., for ciated Press Association’s writing and pho- from the University of Notre Dame military conflict, post-traumatic stress and The Anniston Star in Anniston, Ala., and for tography contests, for videos. He became a urban police strategies. He recently started The Shoshone News-Press in Kellogg, Idaho. reporter in 2009, and found he liked asking MONTGOMERY, Michael reading fiction again at his wife’s urging, and Smith has a master’s degree in community questions. In December, the Star-Gazette and Michael Montgomery is a reporter and broad- reports it’s been wonderful to step away from journalism from the University of Alabama in its sister papers published his report about cast producer for The Center for Investigative the world of mayhem. Much of his free time Tuscaloosa, and a bachelor’s degree in jour- the lack of laws addressing contamination in Reporting. He is also a special correspondent outside work is spent with her: Running, trav- nalism with a photojournalism emphasis from former methamphetamine labs in New York for KQED Public Radio and contributing pro- eling, and seeking out food from around the the University of Montana in Missoula. and Pennsylvania. As a result, legislators in ducer at American RadioWorks. A veteran of world. both states said they would propose laws to radio, television and newspapers, Montgom- SMITH, Glenn make property sellers and landlords disclose ery reports extensively on criminal justice and NORFLEET, Nicole Glenn Smith directs crime and court cover- that properties were once meth labs, and re- prisons, vulnerable and exploited populations Nicole Norfleet is a relatively new crime re- age for The Post and Courier, South Carolina’s quire the states to set measurable standards and the underground economy. After complet- porter for the Star Tribune in the Twin Cities. oldest and largest daily newspaper. A native for decontamination, as about half the states ing a Fulbright Fellowship in Eastern Europe, She started covering St. Paul public safety of Connecticut, Smith has worked in newspa- already have done. He is a 1997 graduate of Montgomery began his career as a newspaper in 2013 after being a night cops reporter for pers for more than 25 years. Since joining The Ithaca College, with a bachelor’s degree in reporter, covering the fall of communism and about a year. Nicole joined the Star Tribune as Post and Courier in 1999, he has supervised a television and radio. wars in former Yugoslavia. He was a foreign an apprentice reporter in July 2010 and has six-person team of criminal justice reporters. correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and a enjoyed several different assignments with In addition to being named South Carolina’s contributor to the Los Angeles Times. Mont- the paper, including as a whistleblower report- Journalist of the Year for 2012, Smith is a two- gomery also served as a staff producer at CBS er and a suburban reporter before her current time winner of the University of South Caro- News and senior reporter at American Public beat. While covering public safety, Norfleet lina’s Taylor-Tomlin Award for Investigative Media. His work has garnered national and has focused on child sex trafficking, domestic Reporting and a recipient of the New England international prizes, including an Overseas violence and gang violence. She graduated Associated Press Newspaper Executives As- Press Club Award, IRE Certificate, Edward R. from the University of North Carolina – Chapel sociation’s Thomas P. Brindley Award for pub- Murrow Award and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Hill in December of 2009, and has interned at lic service. Smith also worked on a team that University Gold and Silver Batons. The Associated Press, The Washington Post won the Society of Professional Journalists’ and the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Pe- 2008 Sigma Delta Chi awards for deadline and MORAFF, Christopher tersburg Times). non-deadline reporting, the American Society Christopher Moraff is a widely published jour- of Newspaper Editors’ 2008 Jesse Laventhol nalist and writer whose reporting on social PALLACK, Becky Prize for deadline news reporting and the 2008 justice themes has appeared in a number of Becky Pallack is a member of the new watch- National Headliner Award for Investigative reputable publications, including Al Jazeera dog reporting team at the Arizona Daily Star, Journalism. He lives in Charleston with his America, Washington Monthly, The Phila- where she has been a Tucson-based for 10 wife and their daughter. delphia Inquirer and World Politics Review. years. Prior beats included public safety, busi- Moraff has been a regular contributor to The ness, education and local government. Her STARR, Terrell American Prospect, In These Times and Phila- project experience includes a series about Terell Jermaine Starr is Associate Editor at delphia magazine. For the past six years, he child-care centers with repeated health and NewsOne, a Black news site in New York City. has served as a special correspondent for The safety code violations, and a series about the He has five years of journalism experience in Philadelphia Tribune and has reported exten- negligible impact of tribal gaming revenue on public radio, magazines, photography, and on- sively on criminal justice topics at both the local Native American poverty. On the cops line reporting. Fluent in social media report- state and national level – including juvenile beat she covered the case of a 14-year-old girl ing, Terell Jermaine Starr has broken several life without parole, capital punishment, Penn- held prisoner for more than a year, told read- national stories, including an exclusive inter- sylvania’s aging inmate population, prison ers when meth became the most popular drug view with a woman who organized a Twitter privatization, Federal Prison Industries, and in local child neglect cases, and showed how protest that forced a literary agent to withdraw the voting rights for ex-felons. He received his an increase in DUI arrests strained the local a book contract she offered to a George Zim- master’s degree in journalism from Temple probation department. Pallack is a three-time merman juror. He also used his social media University in Philadelphia in 2008 following winner of the Arizona Newspapers Asso- skills to find his father, at age 29, on Facebook; undergraduate studies in sociology, and was ciation’s Freedom of Information Award. She his story was featured on “Today” show and inducted into the Kappa Tau Alpha National earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from BuzzFeed. Starr has a BA in English from Phi- Honor Society. He resides in Philadelphia. Northern Arizona University. lander Smith College, in Little Rock, Ark., and an MS in Editorial Journalism; and an MA in NICKEAS, Peter SMITH, Alison Russian, East European and Eurasian Stud- Peter Nickeas has been a reporter for The Alison Smith covers public safety for the ies from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Chicago Tribune since September 2011. The Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho. She won Champaign. He is a Fulbright Journalism following spring, he began covering crime third-place for crime reporting at the 2012 Scholar (Ukraine 2009-2010) and a Returned scenes overnight and trying to find new ways Idaho Press Club awards for a story about a Peace Corps Volunteer (Georgia 2003-2005). of reporting what were considered routine man representing himself in court. She won shootings. At his request, he worked week- first-place for features from the Utah-Idaho- WHONG, Jason ends during the warm months when gun vio- Spokane Press Association for an article about Jason Whong has been a journalist for nearly lence peaked. Nickeas became a mobile news- the stories behind roadside memorial crosses. 10 years at the Star-Gazette in Elmira, New room, outfitted with two scanners, a laptop, a She has reported on elderly home invasion York. As a clerk, he pioneered the newspa- cell phone, a camera, and a wireless card. He survivors, rape victims, a local injured sol- per’s video efforts on stargazette.com. In worked in Wyoming and Indiana before the dier’s journey of recovery and a series on cold 2006, he became a photographer, and in fol- 2010 he partnered with the Sarasota Herald- he was a reporter for the Center for Public In- Tribune to produce an award-winning series tegrity, where he led a year-long investigative of stories about contaminated drywall. In 2009 project, “Superfund’s Toxic Legacy,” which he was part of a team whose work on natural received the 2007 Society of Professional gas drilling won the Society of Professional Journalists award for non-deadline online re- Journalists award for online non-deadline porting. Before joining CPI, Sapien wrote for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting 2014 investigative reporting. From 2005 until 2008 Environmental Media Services. PRIZEWINNERS BIOS

in the governor’s use of private jets provided WINNER by wealthy businessmen. She’s written exten- JOHN JAY/H.F. GUGGENHEIM PRIZE JURORS (SINGLE STORY) sively about corruption in school construc- tion, deadly incompetence in Florida’s child BROWNE-MARSHALL, Gloria and has freelanced for the Los Angeles Times McSWANE, J. David welfare agency, and housing woes caused by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an Associate Pro- and New York Times. She graduated from Yale J. David McSwane is deputy projects editor the foreclosure crisis. Prior to joining the Sun fessor of Constitutional Law at John Jay Col- University and the NYU School of Law. She for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, where he has Sentinel, Megan worked for The Pittsburgh lege of Criminal Justice. She is a columnist for was a winner of the 2012-2013 John Jay/HF worked since 2010. His 44-page special report Press, and The (Allentown) Morning Call, and Black Star News and a journalist covering the Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal on sex trafficking, “The Stolen Ones,” spurred the Chicago Tribune. She is the recipient of nu- U.S. Supreme Court. She is an attorney with a Justice Reporting for her investigation of soli- a national dialogue on the issue of domestic merous state and national honors and was a litigation background in civil rights, children’s tary confinement in Louisiana prisons. sex trafficking and has been used as a train- 2006 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investiga- healthcare, education, and criminal justice is- ing tool for police departments and the FBI. An tive reporting. sues, teaches constitutional law at John Jay DOMANICK, Joe honors graduate of Colorado State University, College. A former Legal Advisor to the Perma- (SEE BIO IN SPEAKERS LIST) McSwane previously worked as a fellow for nent Representation to the United Nations in Westword, a Denver alternative weekly, and Geneva and New York of the African Bureau of GEST, Ted as an investigative producer for KCNC, the RUNNERS-UP Educational Sciences/OAU, she has presented (SEE BIO IN SPEAKERS LIST) Denver CBS affiliate. His reporting on Army (SINGLE) interventions before the United Nations in Ge- recruiting in 2005 prompted the Pentagon to neva, Switzerland, on issues of racial justice. In KOLKER, Robert call a national recruiting stand down day to re- SCHWARTZAPFEL, Beth addition to teaching courses on constitutional Robert Kolker is a contributing editor at New view improprieties. That story won a Peabody Beth Schwartzapfel specializes in long-form law and evidence, Prof Browne-Marshall is the York magazine and the New York Times best- Award and an IRE certificate. and narrative journalism. Her work has ap- author of two books, The Constitution: Major selling author of Lost Girls, named one of Pub- peared in Mother Jones, the New York Times, Cases and Conflicts and, more recently, Race, lishers Weekly’s Top Ten Books of 2013. His the Nation, and Ms.. She covers a wide range Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present. work at New York most often takes the form of of subjects, but has a specific interest in the Professor Browne-Marshall’s forthcoming gripping narratives. Among his subjects: fire- WINNER criminal justice system, prisons and jails, and book is Black Women and the Law. fighters, recovering from a notorious disaster (SERIES) health care for the underserved and disenfran- in the Bronx; the “Subway Superman” chised, particularly substance use, addiction, CAPELOTO, Alexa grappling with sudden fame; a young academic MAINES, John and HIV/AIDS. She has won numerous writ- Alexa Capeloto is Assistant Professor of Jour- star rising up from the inner city, only to be John Maines has been a journalist for 37 years ing and journalism awards, including multiple nalism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. gunned down in her old neighborhood; and and database editor at the South Florida Sun Rhode Island Press Association Awards and Capeloto was a reporter and editor at the De- the most vulnerable victims of Bernie Madoff’s Sentinel for the past 16 years. He currently Rhode Island for Community and Justice Met- troit Free Press until joining the San Diego financial crimes. His 2006 investigation into works with the newspaper’s investigative calf Awards for Diversity in the Media. She is a Union-Tribune as East County bureau chief in sexual abuse in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish team, conducting data analysis for special fellow of the MacDowell Colony. Beth earned 2005. In 2007, she was named the paper’s en- community helped bring an abuser to justice projects. Maines joined the newspaper in a BA in English, with honors in Creative Writ- terprise editor, overseeing explanatory, trend and was nominated for a National Magazine 1993, first working as a growth and develop- ing, from Brown University, and a Master of and other enterprise stories. Before arriving Award. His exploration of an eighteen-year ment and general assignment reporter before Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the New at John Jay in 2009, she was an adjunct in- murder-exoneration case and the police tactics becoming a specialist in computer-assisted School. Schwartzapfel has been an outreach structor of journalism at National University, a that can lead to false confessions received the reporting. He is the winner of numerous state worker and educator at an HIV/hepatitis C San Diego-based college aimed at mid-career John Jay/HF Guggenheim 2011 Excellence and national awards, and in 2013 won the Pu- clinic, taught at LaGuardia Community Col- students. Capeloto, who earned her master’s in Criminal Justice Reporting Award. Other litzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for lege and Brooklyn College of the City Univer- degree in journalism from Columbia Univer- articles of note include the police shooting of the Sun Sentinel along with investigative re- sity of New York, and has worked as a reporter sity in 2000, also serves as faculty adviser for Sean Bell, a close look at New York’s home- porter Sally Kestin. at the Forward. She now lives in Boston. John Jay’s student newspaper, The John Jay lessness ��������������������������������������epidemic����������������������������� and cover stories about air- Sentinel. port safety and security. O’MATZ, Megan Megan O’Matz is part of a team of investigative (SERIES) CHANG, Cindy reporters for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Cindy Chang is a reporter for the Los Angeles She and her colleagues have exposed wide- SAPIEN, Joaquin Times. Prior to this Cindy worked as a special spread fraud in FEMA’s disaster aid program, Since joining ProPublica in May 2008, Joaquin projects writer for The Times-Picayune. She mismanagement and loopholes in Florida’s Sapien has delved into criminal justice, mili- joined the newspaper in 2007. She began her gun licensing system, and ethical breaches tary healthcare, and environmental issues. In journalism career at the Pasadena Star-News BYRNE, Dara LAPD’s Century of War in the City of Dreams, Dara N. Byrne, Associate Professor in the De- won the 1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best partment of Communication and Theater Arts, Non-Fiction Book. Domanick has contributed is the Faculty Director of the College’s Macaulay articles and essays to magazines and newspa- SPEAKERS BIOS Honor’s Program. She is a specialist in critical pers across the U.S., including over 50 criminal- language studies, intercultural communication justice related op-ed pieces for the Los Angeles and digital media. Her publications include con- Times. His latest book, Road to Reckoning: The tributions to volumes such as Brown v. Board Collapse and Reformation of the LAPD, will be of Education: Its Impact on Public Education published by Simon & Schuster in the spring BAL, Navjeet K. entire field of criminal justice, ranging from 1954-2004; HBCUs Models for Success: Sup- 2014. Navjeet K. Bal is a member of Nixon Peabody’s sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation to porting Achievement and Retention of Black Public Finance group and has extensive expe- prison populations, demographic trends, juve- Males; Learning Race and Ethnicit; and Youth ESSERMAN, Dean M. rience serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s nile violence and drug-enforcement policy, He and Digital Media, among others. Her research Dean Esserman, JD, is chief of police in New counsel, and borrower’s counsel in publicly and was also director of the National Consortium on has been funded by the MacArthur Founda- Haven, CT. He served as chief of police for the privately placed debt financings for govern- Violence Research (NCOVR), a multi-university tion, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Research MTA Metro North Police Department (1993- mental, quasi-public, and nonprofit borrowers. initiative funded by the National Science Foun- Foundation at City University of New York. Dr. 1998), chief of police in Stamford, Connecticut In 2008, Bal was appointed as Massachusetts’ dation and headquartered at the Heinz College. Byrne’s current research examines vigilante (1998-2003), and chief of the Providence RI Po- Commissioner of Revenue by Governor Patrick justice in online social-networking sites. lice Department (2003-2011). To each of these and Secretary Kirwan, where she managed a BRATTON, William J (Keynote) posts he brought his nationally renowned phi- large department, with three lines of business: Bill Bratton was sworn in as the 42nd Com- CHAUHAN, Preeti losophy of community-oriented policing. Born Tax Administration, Child Support Enforce- missioner of the New York Police Department Preeti Chauhan is an Assistant Professor of Psy- in New York City, Esserman served as an assis- ment, and Division of Local Services. In this (NYPD), the largest in the nation, on Jan 2, chology at John Jay College. She received her tant district attorney in Brooklyn, NY from 1983 position she also represented the Department 2014—capping an illustrious 34-year law en- PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University to 1987 and as general counsel to Chief William of Revenue and the administration publicly, in forcement career, in which he has served as of Virginia and her BA and BS from University of Bratton of the New York City Transit Police, the front of the Massachusetts legislature and tax- Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Florida. Before joining the faculty at John Jay, sixth largest force in the nation. As assistant payer and tax practitioner groups, as well as (2002-2009), Chief of the New York City Tran- she completed a predoctoral clinical internship chief of police in New Haven, CT (1991-1993), Massachusetts city and town officials. sit Police (1990-1992), Boston Police Commis- at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill he put into effect a community policing plan, sioner (1993-1994), and an earlier stint as NYPD Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Chauhan’s research the state’s first federally funded drug gang task BEARD, Jeffrey A. Commissioner (1994-1996). Known as one of interests focuses broadly on the intersection of force, and cut crime city-wide. One of only 10 Jeffrey A. Beard, Ph.D. was appointed Secre- America’s premier police chiefs, he is a strong neighborhood and individual level risk factors federally appointed monitors in the nation, he tary of the California Department of Corrections advocate of community policing and the only for antisocial behavior, psychopathology, and is currently monitoring the Wallkill Police De- and Rehabilitation on December 27, 2012. He person to have led four of the largest police victimization, with an emphasis on understand- partment of New York for the Federal Court. Es- also serves as Chairman of both the Board of forces in the United States. Many of the officers ing their contribution to racial disparities. serman is a graduate of the New Haven Police State and Community Corrections and the Pris- who served under him have gone on to lead Academy, Dartmouth College (B.A.), New York on Industry Board. Dr. Beard began his criminal major urban police forces around the country. CRAIG, James E. University School of Law (J.D.), and a fellow at justice career in 1972 with the Department of Among his activities in private life, Bratton James E. Craig was appointed Chief of the De- the Yale University Child Study Center. He is a Corrections in Pennsylvania (DCP) as a correc- served as Chairman of Kroll Advisory Solu- troit Police Department on July 1, 2013, bring- member of the New York and Massachusetts tions counselor, and served as Secretary of the tions and founded the New York-based Bratton ing his career full circle since he started out as Bar, and currently serves as the senior law en- th DCP from 2001 to 2010. Before his California Group LLC and Bratton Technologies, which an officer assigned to Detroit’s 10 precinct in forcement executive in residence at the Roger appointment, Dr. Beard worked as a consul- operates BlueLine, the first secure, global law 1977. He served 28 years with the Los Angeles Williams University Justice System Training tant and/or instructor to the National Institute enforcement professional social network. The Police Department, ending his tenure there as and Research Institute. of Corrections, and since early 2011 has been a Boston native has twice served as president of a command officer. Subsequently he served Professor of Practice with the Justice Center for the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), as chief of the Portland (Maine) Police Depart- GELB, Adam Research at Pennsylvania State University. He and in 2009 served as president of the Major ment (2009-2011) and chief of the Cincinnati Adam Gelb is director of the Pew Center on the was recently selected to be a member of a Na- Cities Chiefs Association. A frequent lecturer, PD (2011-2013). In Portland, Craig was credited States Public Safety Performance Project, which tional Academy of Science committee studying writer and commentator in the fields of securi- with reducing violent crime by 10 percent. In helps states advance policies and practices in the high rates of incarceration in the U.S. Dr. ty, counterterrorism, law enforcement and rule Cincinnati, where he was the first African-Ame- adult and juvenile sentencing and corrections Beard, a licensed psychologist, holds a B.S. in of law justice systems, Bratton was named by drican to hold the chief’s spot, he put into effect that protect public safety, hold offenders ac- psychology, and an M.Ed and Ph.D. in counsel- Security magazine as one of 2010’s most influ- major structural changes that allowed officers countable and control corrections costs. As the ing, both from Pennsylvania State. ential people in the security industry. A Viet- tro address neighborhood quality of life issues. project leader, Gelb oversees Pew’s assistance nam veteran, Bratton began his police career A graduate of the FBI Academy, he also holds a to states seeking a greater public safety return BLUMSTEIN, Alfred in 1970 as a Boston cop. He holds a BS from BS degree in Business Management from West on their corrections spending. He also supervis- Alfred Blumstein, PhD, is the J. Erik Jonsson Boston State College and is a graduate of the Coast University, a Master of Management in es a vigorous research portfolio that highlights University of Urban Systems and Operations FBI National Executive Institute and the Senior Public Administration from the University of strategies for reducing recidivism while cutting Research Professor and former Dean (1986- Executive Fellows Program at Harvard’s John F. Phoenix, where he has also started casework in costs. Gelb has been involved in crime control 1993) of Heinz College of Carnegie Mellon Kennedy School of Government. His critically a doctoral program. and prevention issues for the past 25 years as a University. Dr. Blumstein was appointed by At- acclaimed autobiography Turnaround with Pe- journalist, congressional aide, and senior state torney General Eric Holder in 2010 to chair the ter Knobler was published by Random House in DOMANICK, Joe government official. He began his career as a Science Advisory Board for the Office of Justice 1998. He is also co-author with Zachary Tumin Joe Domanick, an award-winning investigative reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Programs. He has also served on the President’s of a management leadership book, Collaborate journalist and author based in Los Angeles, is and staffed the U.S. Senate Judiciary Commit- Crime Commission (1966-67) as Director of Sci- or Perish (2012). In 2009, he was recognized by Associate Director of the CMCJ and West Coast tee during negotiations and final passage of the ence and Technology. One of the country’s most Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the honor- Bureau Chief of The Crime Report. His most Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement eminent criminologists, and a past chair of the ary title of Commander of the Most Excellent recent book is Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and Act of 1994. From 1995 to 2000, he served as American Society of Criminology, Dr. Blumstein Order of the British Empire (CBE). the Politics of Crime in America’s Golden State. policy director for the lieutenant governor of has been a leader in research throughout the His previous book, To Protect and Serve: The Maryland, and served as executive director of the Georgia Sentencing Commission from 2001 columnist and foreign correspondent with over JOHNSON, Tyson within his circle of school friends and in his to 2003. Gelb graduated from the University 30 years’ experience in reporting and editing Tyson Johnson is VP, Business Development neighborhood, there were drugs, incarcera- of Virginia, and holds a master’s degree from (most recently TIME Magazine), he has been a at BrightPlanet, a world-leading Open Source tion, violence and poverty. After a series of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Gov- consultant to U.S. law enforcement agencies Intelligence (OSINT) technology provider. A poor choices and a pursuit of luxury beyond his ernment. and the United Nations, and has lectured and former Canadian intelligence officer, Tyson is means, he found himself on the wrong side of taught at universities around the U.S. His book, a leader in the field of enterprise risk, security the law with felony criminal convictions. His GEST, Ted Comrade Criminal: Russia’s New Mafiya (Yale: and investigations, and has conducted risk prominence within his social circle as a connec- Since 1998, Ted Gest has been president of 1995) was on The New York Times Notable management operations in over 17 countries. tor and entertainer, and his dedication to com- Criminal Justice Journalists, a national orga- Books of the Year list. His most recent book is He was recognized by Security Director News munity led him to found PowerHouse, where nization of reporters, writers, and broadcasters How They Got Away With It: White-Collar Crim- as one of the top “20 under 40,” and received he hires young fathers as apprentices in his who cover criminal justice. He is Washington inals and the Financial Meltdown, (Columbia his Masters from The Fletcher School of Law catering and event production business. It is DC Bureau Chief and Contributing Editor of The University Press: 2012). He earned his Masters and Diplomacy. Johnson also holds industry a dream job, where he parties with a purpose Crime Report, where he also edits the Crime in Public Administration from the John F. Ken- certifications with ASIS and the Association by providing excellent food and service to his and Justice News section. He is the author of nedy School of Government at Harvard Univer- of Certified Fraud Examiners. He discovered clients while training young men in need of Crime and Politics: Big Government’s Erratic sity, and a BA in English and Philosophy from BrightPlanet and its OSINT capabilities while learning how to be successful and confident Campaign for Law and Order (2001) a book on the City College of New York (CUNY). conducting research into terrorist activities on- job holders. anticrime policy in the United States since the line. He then incorporated BrightPlanet’s ser- late 1960s. Gest was a writer and editor at U.S. HORN, Martin vices into the Security Information Operations LIVINGSTON, Brad News & World Report, a weekly newsmaga- Martin F. Horn is Distinguished Lecturer in Cor- Center while leading corporate security for a Brad Livingston has served as the Executive zine based in Washington, D.C., from 1977 to rections at John Jay College and serves as Ex- global bank. He is a strong advocate for pro- Director of the Texas Department of Criminal 2000. After covering the White House, he was ecutive Director of the New York State Sentenc- active risk management programs and believes Justice (TDCJ) since November 1, 2004, where the magazine’s chief legal affairs writer for 15 ing Commission. He is also a Managing Direc- in the need for organizations to leverage tech- he oversees the operations of one of the larg- years, covering the Justice Department, the Su- tor of KeyPoint Government Solutions, Inc. He nologies for efficiency and effectiveness. est governmental entities of its kind, with ap- preme Court, and crime and justice issues na- served as Commissioner of the New York City proximately 40,000 employees statewide. TD- tionally. After 1996, he served as national news Department of Probation and Commissioner of LEHREN, Andrew CJ’s responsibilities include state correctional editor and as a writer on law schools and other the New York City Department of Correction, Andrew Lehren is a reporter at The New York facilities, parole and probation In 2007, 2009 education issues. Before joining U.S. News, the city’s jail system until 2009. Among his ac- Times, and has worked on a range of national, and again in 2013, the Texas Public Employees Gest was a reporter and editor at the St. Louis complishments in those posts, he reduced the international, and investigative stories. He was Association presented him with the Agency Ad- Post-Dispatch. Since 2011, he also has served introduction of drugs into jail by initiating New one of the newspaper’s lead reporters analyz- ministrator of the Year award for his effective- as public information officer for the District of York’s first drug interdiction program, includ- ing the Wikileaks trove of diplomatic cables, Af- ness in this role. Livingston holds a BA e in Columbia Attorney General’s office. ing the first wide scale drug testing in the City’s ghanistan and Iraq war logs, and Guantanamo Political Science, with honors, from Metropoli- jails, and he reduced suicides among inmates. detainee dossiers. Highlights from those stories tan State College of Denver, and holds a Master GRAY, Katti His “Project Zero” effort led to major changes were compiled into a bestselling book, “Open of Public Affairs (MPA) from the University of Katti Gray is a contributing editor of The Crime in the City’s approach to juvenile delinquents, Secrets.” He contributed to the Pulitzer Prize- Texas at Austin. Report, and a veteran journalist who has re- paving the way for a 70% reduction in the City’s winning series that examined substandard Chi- ported on juveniles on death row, a first-of-its- placement of juvenile delinquents and a tripling nese chemicals tainting U.S. pharmaceuticals. MARTIN, Glenn kind think tank run by the formerly incarcer- of the number of alleged delinquents diverted Before joining The Times, he was an investiga- Glenn E. Martin is currently the Vice Presi- ated, health care in women’s prisons and the following arrest. Between 1995 and 2000, he tive producer at NBC News. He has won numer- dent of Public Affairs and Director of the David relative silences surrounding male victims of served as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Correc- ous awards, including a Polk, Peabody, two du- Rothenberg Center for Public Policy at The For- sexual abuse males for national magazines and tions. He began his career as a New York State Pont-Columbia batons and Edward R. Murrow tune Society. He is responsible for leading the online news sites. In 2013-2014, she served as Parole Officer in 1969. investigative awards, Emmys, three Investiga- agency’s communications work, as well as de- journalism coordinator of CMCJ/Langeloth Fel- tive Reporters & Editors awards, an Overseas veloping and advancing Fortune’s national and lowship program for journalists covering health HUTSON, Frederick Press Club honor, and a Daniel Pearl investiga- local criminal justice policy advocacy agenda. care and prisons. Her work has appeared on Frederick Hutson is the CEO of Pigeonly, a plat- tive award. His investigative reporting class at Martin is the founder of JustLeadershipUSA, ABCNews.com, Chicago Tribune, ColorLines. form that identifies and organizes data on the the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has and co-founder of the Education Inside Out Co- com, DailyYonder.com, Ebony, Essence, the incarcerated. A born entrepreneur, he launched also won the Investigative Reporters & Editors alition (EIO Coalition). He is a 2011-2012 Ameri- Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Ms., and sold his first business at the age of 19 while award for best student investigation in the na- cas Leaders of Change National Urban Fellow and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, among on active duty in the Air Force. He left the mili- tion. He has worked for Investigative Reporters and a member of the Boards of The College and others. Before become a freelancer in 2005, she tary (with an honorable discharge) to build his & Editors, overseeing its computer-assisted re- Community Fellowship and Prisoners Legal worked as a staffer for the Fort Worth Star-Tele- second business which he also sold for a profit. porting operation. He has written for Reuters, Services. He also currently serves on NYC Com- gram and for Newsday, where she was part of a The serial entrepreneur’s love for business the Philadelphia Daily News, JazzTimes, and munity Board #10, the NYC Council Task Force Pulitzer Prize-winning team. continued when, at 21, he saw his friends’ St. The National Law Journal. He earned degrees to End Gun Violence, the NYS Department of Petersburg FL-based businesses struggling and from the University of Missouri and Lehigh Uni- Labor’s Committee to Address the Chronic Un- HANDELMAN, Stephen thought of a solution — a more efficient way versity. deremployment and Unemployment of African Stephen Handelman is Director of the Center to traffic marijuana. During a four-year federal American Men, NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s Ban on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ) at John prison sentence, a new idea surfaced that gave LILLY, Robert the Box Advisory Board, Governor Cuomo’s Ex- Jay College, and Executive Editor of The Crime him an opportunity to affect the lives of people Robert Lilly is founder and executive chef of ecutive Work for Success Committee, NYS Ex- Report, www.thecrimereport.org, the nation’s no one else was paying attention to: inmates. PowerHouse Events and Catering. Born and ecutive Reentry Housing Committee, and the most comprehensive daily news and resource Hutson leads a team of seven from Pigeonly’s raised in Spanish Harlem, he experienced life National Network for Safe Communities. In service on criminal justice. He also serves as Las Vegas headquarters and recently secured a from two completely different perspectives as addition to hosting Fortune’s local cable televi- host of “Criminal Justice Matters,” a monthly $1 million seed round of funding from investors a youngster. He attended the United Nations sion show, Both Sides of the Bars, Mr. Martin TV show at CUNY-TV; and as consulting manag- including Erik Moore (Base VC), Mitch Kapor International School, a public school on New often serves as a reentry/criminal justice policy ing editor of Americas Quarterly, a journal on (Lotus) and Kesha Cash (Jalia Ventures). York’s affluent upper east side, and went on reform expert on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN and hemisphere affairs published by the Americas to graduate from Howard University in Wash- a number of local media outlets. Society. An award-winning veteran journalist, ington DC and attend Howard Law School. But NAUGHTON, Carol REDD, Dana L. Redd outcomes, and statistical methods. Prior to Carol R. Naughton helped found Purpose Built The Honorable Dana L. Redd was sworn in as completing his Ph.D. in 1988 from the Gradu- Communities in 2008. She previously served the Mayor of the City of Camden, NJ on Janu- ate School of Public and International Affairs at for seven years as the Executive Director of the ary 1, 2010. A lifelong resident of Camden, she the University of Pittsburgh he was a Fulbright East Lake Foundation, the lead non-profit orga- has spent more than 20 years working in the Scholar at the Institute of Criminology at Cam- nization that developed and continues to imple- public sector. She served as a two-term mem- bridge University. ment a bold, innovative and successful model ber of Camden City Council (2001-2008), and of community revitalization that helps families represented the City of Camden as New Jersey SCATES, Robert break the cycle of poverty. An expert in pub- State Senator for the 5th Legislative District Robert Scates IV, 18, is a graduate of the Hyde lic/private partnerships, Naughton has crafted from 2008 until January 2010. Redd’s driving Park Academy in Chicago IL, where he still lives. groundbreaking alliances in housing and edu- force and personal inspiration has been her fa- A community activist, he works with the Green- cation. Prior to joining the East Lake Founda- ther, Ronald, and his expressed belief in Cam- Light Movement, a nonprofit organization tion, she was General Counsel and Deputy Ex- den’s renewal and renaissance. He urged the dedicated to training young people, including ecutive Director for Legal and Nonprofit Affairs family not to leave because the city was slated ex-juvenile offenders, how to start and run their for the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA). Before to experience a “comeback.” She firmly be- own business. Youth in the program learn skills working with the AHA, Naughton was engaged lieves in the City Invincible, and it is to this end, such as customer service, inventory-checking in the private practice of law with Sutherland, that she serves the community. and math. He participated in the 3rd annual DOJ Asbill & Brennan’s real estate group. She is a National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention former president of the Georgia Association for ROSENFELD, Richard outside Wash DC in September 2013, and he Women Lawyers, a member of the State Bar of Richard Rosenfeld is Curators Professor of recently tweeted about his meeting with Presi- Georgia, and a former member of the Board of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Uni- dent Barack Obama. “I can tell my grandkids I Governors for that organization. A graduate of versity of Missouri\-St. Louis. His most recent met the first black President,” he said. the Emory University School of Law, she was book, written with Steven F. Messner, is Crime Executive Editor of the Emory Law Journal. and the Economy, and he has published widely VALVERDE, John on crime trends, crime statistics, and criminal John Valverde is the Associate Executive Di- ORTIZ, Carmen M. justice policy. Prof. Rosenfeld is a Fellow and rector of Program Operations for the Osborne Carmen M. Ortiz was nominated by President past President of the American Society of Crim- Association. He oversees Osborne’s Family Ser- Barack Obama as the United States Attorney for inology. He currently serves on the Science Ad- vices, Treatment and Prevention and Workforce the District of Massachusetts and confirmed by visory Board of the Office of Justice Programs, Development units. A formerly incarcerated the Senate in 2009. She is the first Hispanic and US Department of Justice. individual, Valverde joined the Osborne staff in the first woman to represent Massachusetts as 2009 and has previously led Osborne’s Work- United States Attorney. As the chief federal law RYAN, Timothy P. force Development services. His work with indi- enforcement officer in Massachusetts, Ms. Ortiz Timothy P. Ryan is a Managing Director with viduals with criminal records began in 1992 and supervises the prosecution of all federal crimes Kroll Advisory Solutions Cyber Investigations includes a full spectrum of services, ranging and the litigation of all civil matters in which practice in New York. Before joining Kroll, he from peer counseling for HIV/AIDS programs the federal government has an interest. In ad- served as a Supervisory Special Agent with the and GED instruction to alternatives to violence dition, Ms. Ortiz serves on Attorney General Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he facilitation and teaching college level courses Eric Holder’s Advisory Committee and is also supervised the largest cyber squad in the Unit- in the correctional setting. He is the co-founder the Chair of the Attorney General’s Healthcare ed States. Ryan led complex cyber investiga- of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, Fraud Working Group.Her awards and honors tions involving corporate espionage, advanced Inc. Valverde holds a Masters Degree in Urban include, Bostonian of the Year in 2012 (Boston computer intrusions, denial of service, insider Ministry from New York Theological Seminary. Globe) and Latina of the Year 2012 (El Mundo). attacks, malware outbreaks, internet fraud, and She earned her law degree from George Wash- theft of trade secrets. He holds a BA from Kean WEGMAN, Jesse ington University Law School and her under- University, a JD from Rutgers University School Jesse Wegman joined the editorial board of the graduate degree from Adelphi University in of Law, and an MS in Information Technology New York Times in 2013, where he specializes in New York. and Assurance from the University of Mary- justice issues. He was previously a senior editor land. Before joining the FBI, Tim was an attor- at The Daily Beast and Newsweek, a legal news RAEMISCH, Rick ney in private practice in Arizona, and served as editor at Reuters, and the managing editor of Rick Raemisch was appointed Executive Direc- military police with the U.S. Army during Oper- The New York Observer. In 2010, he received a tor of the Colorado Department of Corrections ation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, for which Soros Justice Fellowship to write a book about in July 2013, four months after the murder of he was awarded multiple commendations. jailhouse lawyers. Jesse has also worked as a his predecessor Tom Clements at the hands of a producer and reporter for National Public Radio parolee. Raemisch previously served as head of SABOL, William J. programs including Living On Earth, All Things the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. His William Sabol, Ph.D., currently serves as Act- Considered, and Weekend Edition. He graduat- three decades of experience in the criminal jus- ing Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. ed from New York University School of Law in tice system include stints as an elected sheriff He has more than 25 years of experience in 2005 and clerked for a federal magistrate judge in Dane County, Wisconsin; and as a state and research and statistics on corrections, sentenc- in the Southern District of New York. federal prosecutor, After earning his law degree ing and justice issues in different settings, in- he joined the county district attorney’s office cluding the Government Accountability Office, where he served as an assistant district attor- Case Western Reserve University, the Urban ney, and then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office Institute, and the University of Maryland. 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