8 TH ANNUAL HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM ON CRIME IN AMERICA Smart Justice Changing How We Think About Crime and Punishment (and How We Report It)

FEBRUARY 4th & 5th, 2013 JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE NEW YORK CITY 6:00–8:30pm SPEAKERS: John Jay/HF Guggenheim Mary Lou Leary, Acting Assistant Attorney General, AGENDA PRIZE DINNER Department of Justice Thérèse Bartholomew, Documentary Film-maker PRESENTATION OF John Jay/HF Guggenheim Awards for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Mai Fernandez, Executive Director, National Center DAY ONE-MONDAY FEB 4 2013 12:45pm–2:30pm WORKING LUNCH for Victims of Crime Jane Bowers, Provost, John Jay College Trends & Issues in *Screening of segments of Bartholomew film: “The 8:30am–9:15am 2013 Single Story We Built the World’s Prison Final Gift” Criminal Justice Reporting “No Way Out” Mother Jones Capital” The Times-Picayune KEYNOTE & WELCOME For 2013 John Jay HF Guggenheim Reporting Fellows Magazine Shane Bauer Cindy Chang MODERATOR: Julia Dahl, Associate Producer, & Invited Guests Only Runner-Up: “The Throwaways” Runner-Up: “Deadly Force: When cbsnews.com “Crimesider” Jane Bowers, Provost, John Jay College The New Yorker Magazine Las Vegas Police Shoot, and Kill” SPEAKER: Ted Gest, President, Criminal Justice Sarah Stillman Las Vegas Review Journal Stephen Handelman, Director, John Jay Center on Journalists Lawrence Mower, Alan BEST SERIES 2013 Maimon and Brian Hayes, 12:30 pm–1:30pm LUNCH Media, Crime and Justice Presentation of John Jay/HF Guggenheim 2012 survey “Louisiana Incarcerated: How James G. Wright For 2013 John Jay HF Guggenheim Reporting Fellows & Invited Guests Only KEYNOTE SPEAKER: & commentary on criminal justice coverage HONOREE: David Simon, Justice Trailblazer 2013 Loretta E. Lynch 1:30pm–3:00pm INTRODUCED BY: PANEL 7 US Attorney, Eastern District of NY 2:30pm–4:00pm PANEL 3 Jailed Without Conviction: Grassroots Strategies for Crime Lt. Terrence McLarney, Commander, Baltimore Police Homicide Unit Rethinking Pretrial Detention 9:15am–10:45am PANEL 1 Prevention and Control (Part 1): During the 50th Anniversary of Smart Justice Politics: Setting a Focusing on At-Risk Communities, Gideon v Wainright Bipartisan Agenda for Change At-Risk Kids DAY TWO-TUESDAY FEB 5 2013 SPEAKERS: SPEAKERS: SPEAKERS: 8:30am–9:15am KEYNOTE Karen Houppert, Author, Contributing Writer, The Michael Jacobson, Director, Vera Institute James Brodick, Director, Brownsville (NY) Nation, Washington Post Community Justice Center KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jerry Madden, Senior Fellow, Right on Crime; Tim Murray, Executive Director, Pretrial former chair Corrections Committee, Texas Assembly Monica Evans, Detroit Police Department, Operation Mary Lou Leary Justice Institute Safe Passages Acting Assistant Attorney General, Bobby Vassar, Chief Counsel (minority) US Department of Justice Norman Reimer, Executive Director, National Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland David Kennedy, Director, Center for Crime Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Security, House Judiciary Committee Prevention and Control, John Jay College 9:15am–10:45am PANEL 5 Robin Steinberg, Executive Director, The Darrin Williams, Speaker pro tem & former Harold Trulear, Director, Philadelphia Healing Bronx Defenders chair, Judiciary Committee, Arkansas House of Communities Prison Ministries Grassroots Strategies for Crime Representatives MODERATOR: Maurice Possley, Center on Media MODERATOR: Katti Gray, Contributing Editor, The Prevention and Control (Part 2): Crime and Justice MODERATOR: Ailsa Chang, NPR Crime Report Doing More with Less:

PRESENTERS: 3:15pm–5pm FELLOWS WORKSHOPS 11:15am–12:45pm PANEL 2 Turning 4:00pm–5:30pm PANEL 4 Anthony Batts, Police Commissioner, Baltimore Trends & Issues in Lawbreakers into Law Abiders: Raising Capital for Justice: Social Criminal Justice Reporting (2) NYPD Community Affairs Officer, New Approaches to Incarceration Dimas Cortez, For John Jay/HF Guggenheim Fellows, John Jay/HF Impact Bonds and the Mott Haven, (Bronx); Adjunct Professor, John Jay Guggenheim Prize Jurors & invited guests only and Reentry Private Sector College of Criminal Justice PRESENTERS: SPEAKERS: Robert Gonzalez, Adjunct Professor John Jay PRESENTERS: College of Criminal Justice, Lieutenant, NYPD Justice Mapping Project, Al Blumstein, Distinguished Professor, Carnegie Navjeet Bal, Public Finance Group, Nixon Peabody Training Bureau Eric Cadora, Mellon University LLP, Boston Rutgers University Deputy Director of the Center Cynthia Lum, Criminal Justice Journalists, Adam Gelb, Director, Pew Public Safety Alicia Glen, Manager, Urban Investment Group, for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason Dave Krajicek, Presentation of John Jay/HF Guggenheim Case Study Performance Project Goldman Sachs University “Feeding the beast” RESPONDERS: Elizabeth Gaynes, Executive Director, Garry McCarthy, Superintendent of Police, Chicago Osborne Association Chris Epps, Commissioner, Mississippi Department MODERATOR: Eugene O’Donnell, Lecturer, John Conference Wrap-Fellowship Project Reviews of Corrections Kimora, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Jay College of Criminal Justice MODERATOR: Associate Director, MODERATOR: Editor, “The Audit” Joe Domanick, John Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department Dean Starkman, Center on Media, Crime and Justice of Corrections Columbia Journalism Review 11:00am–12:30pm PANEL 6 Healing the Wounds: Restorative Stephen Handelman, Center on Media, Crime MODERATOR: Martin Horn, Distinguished Lecturer, and Justice John Jay College; Executive Director, New York State Justice and the Victims of Crime Sentencing Commission CRIME, Promising innovations in justice policies and practices, often grouped under the heading of “smart justice,” are gathering bipartisan ONLINE support across the U.S. Visit THECRIMEREPORT.ORG for the latest in online criminal justice reporting. In the aftermath of the Fall elections, what’s the outlook for keeping the momentum going—and for successfully applying evidence-based approaches to the systemic problems that continue to foster high rates of homicide, violence, incarceration and trauma YOUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE NEWS SOURCE in the poorest neighborhoods of our cities? www.thecrimereport.org What role will the media play?

@ thecrimereport /thecrimereport the Science Advisory Board for the Office of literature and theater, she is on the doctoral Justice Programs. He has also served on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate School in the President’s Crime Commission (1966-67) Theater and American Studies programs. From as Director of Science and Technology, and 1997-2001, she was director of the Women’s chaired National Academy of Sciences panels Studies Program at Hunter College, and on research on Deterrent and Incapacitative served as Director of Academic Affairs for Effects on Sentencing, and on Criminal the CUNY Honors College from 2001-2005 Careers. One of the country’s most eminent before returning to John Jay in 2005 as the criminologists, and a past chair of the American Dean of Undergraduate Studies. As Provost, Society of Criminology, Dr. Blumstein has Dr. Bowers has led the college in a significant been a leader in research throughout the expansion of the professoriate, a dramatic entire field of criminal justice, ranging from increase in grant-funding, the development of sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation new liberal arts majors and master’s programs, to prison populations, demographic trends, and the creation of new academic departments. juvenile violence and drug-enforcement policy. CADORA, Eric Eric Cadora is founder and director of the BRODICK, James Justice Mapping Center, now based at Rutgers PANELISTS James Brodick is project director of both University. Previously, he served as Program the Brownsville Community Justice Center Officer for The After Prison Initiative, a and NYC Community Cleanup. Currently grantmaking program at the Open Society BAL, Navjeet K. prison. Bartholomew is also author of Coffee in the planning stage, the Brownsville Institute Foundation (OSI). Cadora joined Navjeet K. Bal is a member of the Public Finance Shop God (2009). Her compelling story is fast Community Justice Center is the Center OSI in June, 2001 after 14 years at the Center group at Nixon Peabody LLP, where she is becoming a catalyst for national dialogue on for Court Innovation’s newest project, and for Alternative Sentencing and Employment involved in the Boston-based firm’s municipal restorative justice. was designated for special support by the Services (CASES), where he directed finance and social impact projects. Between Department of Justice last year. Brownsville Research and Policy, Court Communications, 2008 and 2011, she served as Commissioner BATTS, Anthony will be modeled after the Red Hook Community and Information Systems units, as well as of Revenue for the Commonwealth of Anthony W. Batts was confirmed as Baltimore Justice Center, which Brodick directed for the Day Center program. Cadora received an Massachusetts, the second woman—and the police chief in September, 2012. He previously seven years, and the Midtown Community Edna McConnell Clarke justice grant in 1996 first member of an ethnic minority—to hold served as chief of police in Oakland, CA (until Court. As director of NYC Community to help the North Carolina Division of Adult that post. In 2010, the Supreme Judicial Court 2009), and chief of Police in Long Beach, Cleanup, Brodick oversees the day-to-day Probation and Parole—with whom he worked of Massachusetts appointed her to the Access CA, where he began as a police academy operations of teams in Brooklyn, Manhattan for the following five years—to implement to Justice Commission, where she co-chaired recruit in 1982. Called by former LAPD chief and Queens. He joined the Center for Court intermediate sanctions programs under the the administrative justice working group. Prior Bill Bratton “the best there is in policing Innovation in 1998. Before becoming project state’s new structured sentencing guidelines. to joining the Department of Revenue, Bal today,” Chief Batts holds a Doctorate in director of the Red Hook Justice Center, he Cadora is co-author of Community Justice, was a public bond lawyer in the public finance Public Administration a Master’s Degree in served as the Justice Center’s deputy director with Dr. Todd Clear. division of the Boston-based firm Mintz Levin. Business Management, and a Bachelor of and director of community programs. Brodick During her 17 years there, she co-founded the Science in Law Enforcement Administration. graduated from St. John’s University and is a CHANG, Ailsa firm’s Domestic Violence Project and served He has received numerous awards and New York State certified mediator. Ailsa Chang is an award-winning reporter on the pro bono committee. She was honored commendations for heroism, crime reduction, at National Public Radio, with a particular with the 2008 Cornerstone Award from the community activism, and innovative programs BOWERS, Jane interest in “stories that bump up against the National South Asian Bar Association. She at the local, state, and national level. Chief Jane Bowers was appointed Provost and Senior criminal justice system.” She previously graduated from Williams in 1984 and received Batts is the father of three children: one Vice President for Academic Affairs at John covered criminal justice, terrorism and the her JD from Northeastern University in 1989. daughter and two sons. In his spare time, he Jay College in 2008. She previously served as courts for WNYC. She found her way into enjoys traveling, and attending jazz concerts interim Provost and Dean of Undergraduate public radio after practicing law for five years, BARTHOLOMEW, Thérèse and sporting events across the United States. studies, where she played a key role in the and can definitely say that walking the streets Thérèse Bartholomew holds a Master’s design and implementation of educational of New York City with a microphone is a lot Degree in Criminal Justice and is a frequent BLUMSTEIN, Alfred partnerships with CUNY community colleges more fun than being holed up in the office speaker on the subject of restorative justice. Alfred Blumstein is the J. Erik Jonsson and the development of new liberal arts writing letters to opposing counsel. In 2012, She is producer of The Final Gift, (www. University of Urban Systems and Operations majors at John Jay. She was a member of she was honored with the Alfred I. duPont- thefinalgiftfilm.com), a documentary that Research Professor and former Dean (1986- John Jay’s English department faculty from Columbia University Silver Baton, one of the follows her seven-year pursuit to find meaning 1993) of Heinz College of Carnegie Mellon 1987-1997. She was educated at Harvard highest awards in broadcast journalism, for her in her brother’s murder—and her historic University. Dr. Blumstein was appointed by University, the University of California at two-part investigative series on allegations of meeting with his killer in a South Carolina Attorney General Eric Holder in 2010 to chair Irvine and Berkeley, where she received her illegal searches and unlawful marijuana arrests PhD in English in 1981. A scholar of American by the New York City Police Department. Other honors include: the Daniel Schorr and Katherine Boo her literary/journalistic criminal justice, nonprofit, and policy arena. career as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal- Journalism Award (2010), and the Art Athens idols. Formerly the acting executive director of Constitution, and staffed the U.S. Senate Award for General Excellence in Individual the Latin American Youth Center—a DC- Judiciary Committee during negotiations and Reporting on Radio (2011). She received a BA EPPS, Christopher based nonprofit organization that provides final passage of the Violent Crime Control and in public policy from Stanford University, a law Commissioner Christopher B. Epps is in his multicultural underserved youth with Law Enforcement Act of 1994. From 1995 degree from Stanford Law School, a Masters 11th year as head of the Mississippi Department education, social, and job training services— to 2000, as policy director for the lieutenant in journalism from Columbia University, and a of Corrections. Having served in both Fernandez has spent the last 13 years managing governor of Maryland, Gelb was instrumental Masters in media law from Oxford University, Democratic and Republican administrations, programs that serve victims of child abuse, sex in developing several nationally recognized where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She was he was last reappointed by Republican Gov. trafficking and gang violence. Before joining anti-crime initiatives. He served as executive also a law clerk to Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. Phil Bryant in January 2012. As a nationally the Latin American Youth Center, Fernandez director of the Georgia Sentencing Commission on the United States Court of Appeals for the recognized leader in corrections, Epps has served as Assistant District Attorney for from 2001 to 2003. Before joining Pew, he Ninth Circuit. had a distinguished career spanning three New York County, and developed policy for was vice president for programs at the Georgia decades. Through his leadership, Mississippi victims of domestic and youth violence at the Council on Substance Abuse. Gelb graduated CORTEZ, Dimas has become a model for penal reform while U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice from the University of Virginia, and holds a Dimas Cortez is an Adjunct Professor and significantly lowering recidivism. In January Programs. She received her undergraduate master’s degree from Harvard University’s former graduate of John Jay College of 2013, he will be sworn in as president of the degree from Dickinson College, Juris Doctor Kennedy School of Government. Criminal Justice, where he teaches classes American Correctional Association (ACA). from American University, and Masters in Criminal Justice, Police Science, Police His numerous awards include the Association in Public Administration from Harvard GLEN, Alicia K. Leadership and Corrections. Cortez has also of State Correctional Administrators’ Michael University’s JFK School of Government. Alicia K. Glen is head of the Urban Investment served in the NYPD for the last 15 years, Francke Award, recognizing him as one of She resides with her husband and son in Group (UIG) at Goldman Sachs, and is moving up from a patrol officer to youth the nation’s most outstanding corrections Washington, DC. responsible for implementing the firm’s officer and community affairs officer in the commissioners in 2011. The Mississippi Community Reinvestment Act business Mott Haven area of Bronx, NY until 2011. native and married father of two sons holds a GAYNES, Elizabeth strategy. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2003 His work in community affairs earned him the BA in elementary education and a Masters in Elizabeth Gaynes is executive director of the and was named managing director in 2005. presidential award from the NYPD Holy Name guidance counseling. Osborne Association. Under her leadership Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Glen Society, A Proclamation from the New York over the last 29 years, the Osborne Association was the Assistant Commissioner for Housing State Assembly, and a full page Daily News EVANS, Monica has grown from a two-person staff to one Finance at the New York City Department article. He is an active member of the Latino Monica Evans has been with the Detroit of the largest multi-service criminal justice of Housing, Preservation and Development. Officers Association and the Archdiocese of Police Department (DPD) since 2004. In organizations in the country. Working in Ms. Glen also serves on the boards of the New York City. Cortez was part of a research October, 2007, she was assigned as a Task collaboration with New York State and City Corporation for Supportive Housing, the study in Mott Haven with Dr. Richard Curtis Force Officer to the Bureau of Alcohol, criminal justice, child welfare, and health Citizens Budget Commission and the Bowery of John Jay College, exploring why—despite Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Her agencies, Osborne operates some of the Residents Committee. Ms. Glen serves as a a decline in crime and drug use—community duties include prevention and intervention country’s most innovative and effective Trustee of Enterprise Community Partners, residents and business operators remain more and serving on the city’s Youth Violence services for incarcerated individuals and their Inc. She graduated from Amherst College in fearful now than they were 25 years ago. Prevention coordinating team. She is certified children and families, in the Bronx, Brooklyn, 1988 and Columbia Law School in 1993. in Gang Resistance and Education Training, Poughkeepsie, at 20 NY state prisons and DAHL, Julia (G.R.E.A.T) and Restorative Practices; and is Rikers Island. In addition to jail and prison GONZALEZ, Robert Julia Dahl produces articles and video about a member of “Project Sentry,” which explores based services, Osborne offers alternatives to Robert Gonzalez is an 18 year veteran of crime and justice for Crimesider, the 48 Hours the ramifications of gun and gang violence, incarceration and reentry support. Ms Gaines the New York City Police Department and blog on CBSNews.com. Born and raised in bullying and conflict resolution in partnership began her legal career as a criminal defense holds the rank of Lieutenant. Presently, he Fresno, CA, she was an editor at Marie Claire, with the United States Attorney’s Office. Her attorney in connection with the 1971 Attica is the assigned to the Training Bureau and a stringer for the New York Post, deputy awards include Police Officer of the year, prison rebellion, and as staff attorney at reports directly to the Deputy Commissioner managing editor of The Crime Report, and a state of Michigan, from Veterans of Foreign Prisoners Legal Services of New York. of Training at the Police Academy. He is also former John Jay/HF Guggenheim Reporting Wars (VFW) 2011, VFW National Officer of a certified General Topics Instructor with Fellow. Dahl has covered subjects ranging the Year Award 2012, and the City of Detroit GELB, Adam the New York State Department of Criminal from suicide-by-cop to prosecuting rape to Service Award from the office of Mayor Dave Adam Gelb is director of the Pew Center Justice Services on Police Related topics her own involvement in the unsolved murder Bing (2012). Before joining the DPD, she was on the States’ Public Safety Performance specializing in Terrorism. Dr. Gonzalez is of a Hurricane Katrina victim for publications a teacher (preschool, and high school) for 12 Project, which helps states advance policies also the President of the National Latino including the Boston Globe, Sunday years. and practices in adult and juvenile sentencing Officers Association (NLOAUS.org), a Magazine, Pacific Standard (formerly Miller- and corrections that protect public safety, hold facilitator at the New York Tolerance Center McCune), Seventeen, Salon and the Columbia FERNANDEZ, Mai offenders accountable and control corrections (specializing in Racial Profiling training) Journalism Review. She lived on-and-off in Mai Fernandez is executive director of the costs. Gelb has been involved in crime control and an adjunct professor at John Jay College NYC since 1999 and now resides in Gowanus, National Center for Victims of Crime, a and prevention issues for the past 25 years of Criminal Justice, Monroe College, and Brooklyn. She is a massive Bruce Springsteen position she has held since June 2010. She as a journalist, congressional aide and senior New York Institute of Technology. In 2011, fan and considers David Simon, Joan Didion has had a distinguished 25-year career in the state government official. He began his Dr. Gonzalez completed his doctorate at St. John’s University in Instructional Leadership. and he reduced suicides among inmates. His College of Criminal Justice, and co-chair of also a special correspondent for the New York His dissertation was a comparison between “Project Zero” effort led to major changes in the National Network for Safe Communities, Daily News and Court TV’s Crime Library. online vs. on-site instruction in Behavioral the City’s approach to juvenile delinquents, an alliance of more than 50 jurisdictions Krajicek’s books include Scooped! Media Science and Criminal Justice. During the same paving the way for a 70% reduction in the dedicated to reducing crime, reducing Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, year, Dr. Gonzalez received the Dr. James City’s placement of juvenile delinquents and incarceration, and addressing the racial conflict Sleaze and Celebrities (Columbia University Fyfe Scholarship from the Police Reserve to a tripling of the number of alleged delinquents associated with traditional crime policy. The Press). Earlier in his career, he was a crime conduct scholarly research in the efficacy of diverted following arrest. Between 1995 and network was built on his successful models reporter at newspapers in Omaha and Iowa online learning in Criminal Justice. 2000, he served as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of violence reduction around the country, and was police bureau chief of the New York of Corrections. He began his career as a New including Boston’s “Operation Ceasefire,” Daily News. A former Columbia University HANDELMAN, Stephen York State Parole Officer in 1969. and the drug market intervention strategy journalism professor, he writes “The Justice Stephen Handelman was appointed Director in High Point NC. Kennedy’s efforts have Story” for the Daily News and frequently of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice HOUPPERT, Karen won numerous awards. He helped design appears on television as a true-crime expert. at John Jay College in May 2007. An Karen Houppert is a contributing writer at and field the Justice Department’s Strategic A native Nebraskan, he lives and works in the internationally known author and investigative The Washington Post Magazine and also Approaches to Community Safety Initiative, Catskill Mountains in New York. journalist whose award-winning work has freelances for other magazines, covering the Treasury Department’s Youth Crime Gun intersected the worlds of journalism, higher social and political issues. Her work has Interdiction Initiative, and the Bureau of LEARY, Mary Lou (KEYNOTE) education, international security, justice and appeared in New York Times, Newsday, Justice Assistance’s Drug Market Intervention Mary Lou Leary was appointed Acting human rights, he is an expert on post-Soviet The Nation, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Program. Kennedy is the author of Deterrence Assistant Attorney General on March 1, 2012. crime and corruption, and a veteran foreign Ms., The Village Voice and other magazines and Crime Prevention: Reconsidering the As head of the Office of Justice Programs, correspondent who has reported from the and anthologies. She is the author of two Prospect of Sanction, co-author of Beyond she oversees an annual budget of more than former Soviet Union, the Middle East, Africa, nonfiction books, The Curse (Farrar, Straus 911: A New Era for Policing, and a wide range $2 billion dedicated to supporting state, Latin America and Asia. His book, Comrade & Giroux, 1999) and Home Fires Burning of articles on gang violence, drug markets, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies; Criminal: Russia’s New Mafiya (Yale: 1995) (Ballantine, 2005). Her third book, Chasing domestic violence, firearms trafficking, an array of juvenile justice programs; a wide was on The New York Times Notable Books Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s deterrence theory, and other public safety range of research, evaluation, and statistical of the Year list. A former columnist and senior Justice (New Press) to be released in March issues. His latest book, Don’t Shoot: One Man, efforts; and comprehensive services for writer for Time Magazine and The Toronto 2013, explores the national crisis in indigent a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence crime victims. Prior to her appointment, she Star, his articles and op-eds have appeared in defense. She lives in Baltimore, MD. in Inner-City America was published by served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney newspapers, magazines, and academic journals Bloomsbury in September 2011. General. Before joining the Office of Justice around the world, and he has won numerous JACOBSON, Michael Programs in 2009, she was Executive Director prizes for his work in the U.S. and Canada. He Michael P. Jacobson joined The Vera Institute KIMORA of the National Center for Victims of Crime, currently serves as Executive Editor of The of Justice as its fourth director in January Kimora is a professor at John Jay College and served in leadership roles at the Office of Crime Report and host of the monthly CUNY- 2005. Before then he was a professor at the of Criminal Justice, where she teaches the United States Attorney for the District of TV program “Criminal Justice Matters.” City University of New York Graduate Center courses in criminal justice and corrections to Columbia. In addition to her years as a federal Handelman earned his BA from City College and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. graduate and undergraduate students. A self- prosecutor, Ms. Leary prosecuted crimes on at The City University of New York (CUNY), A PhD in sociology, he was the New York described “prison reformer,” Kimora works the state and local levels as Assistant District and his Masters in Public Administration from City Correction Commissioner from 1995 to as an educational consultant/facilitator for the Attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard 1998 and the City’s Probation Commissioner Osborne Association and is currently working She received her law degree from Northeastern University. He is consulting managing editor from 1992 to 1996. Prior to that, he worked with young inmates at Rikers Island Facility in University School of Law, a master’s degree for the Americas Quarterly journal. in the New York City Office of Management New York. She teaches parolees coping skills in education from Ohio State University, and and Budget from 1984 to 1992, where he and how to overcome addictive behaviors. a bachelor’s degree in English literature from HORN, Martin was the Deputy Budget Director. He is the She received her Ph.D. in Education from Syracuse University. Martin F. Horn is Distinguished Lecturer in author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce the University of Minnesota in 1995, and her Corrections at John Jay College and serves Crime and End Mass Incarceration (New York Master of Arts degree from the University of LYNCH, Loretta E. (KEYNOTE) as Executive Director of the New York University Press 2005). He serves as chair of Wisconsin-Madison. With years of experience Loretta E. Lynch was appointed by President State Sentencing Commission. He is also a the New York City Criminal Justice Agency. as a lobbyist, educational administrator, Barack Obama as United States Attorney for Managing Director of KeyPoint Government He will depart Vera this year to create and head professor, public speaker, and writer, Kimora the Eastern District of New York in 2010. She Solutions, Inc. He served as Commissioner of a new public and fiscal policy institute for state is “dedicated to changing systems so that served in a similar capacity as an appointee the New York City Department of Probation and local governments at the City University people can live in harmony.” She lives with of President Bill Clinton from 1999 to 2001. and Commissioner of the New York City of New York, where he will also be a professor her husband, Srijan, who is a physician, in As US Attorney, Ms. Lynch is responsible for Department of Correction, the city’s jail system in the sociology department of the Graduate New York City. overseeing all federal and civil investigations until 2009. Among his accomplishments in Center of the City University of New York. and cases in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten those posts, he reduced the introduction of KRAJICEK, David Island, as well as Nassau and Suffolk Counties drugs into jail by initiating New York’s first KENNEDY, David David Krajicek is co-founder and first vice on Long Island. She supervises a staff of drug interdiction program, including the first David M. Kennedy is director of the Center president of Criminal Justice Journalists, and a approximately 170 attorneys and 150 support wide scale drug testing in the City’s jails, for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay contributing writer for The Crime Report. He is personnel. Before joining the US Attorney’s office in 1990, Lynch practiced law asa and substance abuse treatment programs, Previous appointments include Director of others at the Tribune was cited by Illinois litigation associate for a leading New York provide more opportunities in prison for of Policy and Planning, and Director of Gov. George Ryan in 2003 when he commuted based firm. She began her career in the Eastern rehabilitation, and properly utilize probation Program Development at the Bureau of Justice all death sentences to life in prison. He is the District, prosecuting narcotics and violent and parole mechanisms to avoid greater Assistance. Murray is a lifetime member of author of Everybody Pays: Two Men, One crime cases. Lynch served as Chief of the costs if new prisons were built. In 2010, the National Association of Pretrial Services Murder and the Price of Truth, the story of a Long Island Office from 1994 to 1998, after Rep. Madden was named one of Governing Agencies and is the proud recipient of the mob hitman and the witness against him, and serving as the Deputy Chief of General Crimes magazine’s 2010 Public Officials of the Year, Association’s most prestigious honor, the The Brown’s Chicken Massacre, the story and as Chief of Intake and Arraignments for and he received a similar award the following Ennis J. Olgiati Award. He also serves as of a mass murder in Palatine, Il. A graduate the district. While in the Long Island office, year from the American Legislative Exchange the Executive Director for the Institute for of Loyola University of Chicago, he has she prosecuted white collar crime and public Council (ALEC). He chaired ALEC’s Public Justice Planning, a subsidiary of PJI providing been a visiting professor of journalism at the corruption cases, and was the lead prosecutor Safety and Elections Task Force from January planning support to jurisdictions engaged in University of Montana and the University of in a series of trials involving allegations of 2011 through April of 2012, and serves as well criminal justice system reform. Alaska. public corruption in the Long Island town on the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit, of Brookhaven. In January 2013, Attorney which is charged with exploring ways to avoid O’DONNELL, Eugene REIMER, Norman L. General Eric Holder appointed her chair of the wrongful convictions. Eugene O’Donnell is a lecturer in the Norman Reimer is Executive Director of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of department of Law, Science and Criminal National Association of Criminal Defense U.S. Attorneys, where she has been a member McCARTHY, Garry Justice Administration at John Jay College. Lawyers (NACDL), based in Washington since 2010. She received her A.B., cum laude, Garry McCarthy was confirmed as He served as a police officer with the New DC. He has been a criminal defense lawyer from Harvard College in 1981 and her JD from Superintendent of the Chicago Police York City Police Department, receiving 14 for 28 years, with expertise in trial and Harvard Law School in 1984. Department on June 8, 2011. Previously, he department awards for outstanding police appellate advocacy in both state and federal was Chief of Police in Newark NJ. McCarthy service while working in Brooklyn. Following jurisdictions. Prior to NACDL, Reimer was LUM, Cynthia began his police career with the New York City graduation from law school, he served as a president of the New York County Lawyers’ Cynthia Lum is Deputy Director of the Center Police Department, rising through the ranks senior prosecutor and supervisory prosecutor Association (NYCLA), where he played a for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George from a patrolman to Deputy Commissioner in the Kings County (Brooklyn) DA’s office. pivotal role in undertaking litigation against Mason University, and co-directs its evidence- of Operations, the principal crime strategist He has also been Director of Intake and the State and City of New York that upheld based policing research program. Her research for the entire department. In his seven years Advocacy at the New York City Commission the right of a bar association to sue on behalf focuses primarily in the area of policing, as Deputy Commissioner of Operations, New on Human Rights, and spent three years as of indigent litigants. He also played a leading security and translational criminology. Her York City saw a decline in murders every a trainer in the United States Department role in a successful effort to persuade the work in this area has included evaluations of year to 540 in 2005, McCarthy’s last year in of State’s International Law Enforcement American Bar Association to adopt a policy policing interventions for crime prevention New York. That number represents the lowest Academies in Europe and Africa. He assisted calling for the mandatory recording of all effectiveness, examining place-based number in New York history since 1963. At the with the launch of the NYPD Police Studies custodial interrogations, and a successful determinates of street-level police decision- NYPD he pioneered the CompStat program, program in 2001, which provides college effort to persuade the New York State Bar making, understanding counterterrorism now used widely around the US, which uses credits to New York City police personnel. A Association to support a moratorium on efforts by state and local law enforcement, and real-time data to develop crime reduction certified New York state police trainer, he is death penalty prosecutions. Reimer served examining the relationship between drugs and and crime prevention strategies. The son of a frequent op-ed writer and his pieces have as an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York violence. With Christopher Koper and Cody a NY Detective, he established Newark’s appeared in the New York Daily News, New Law School, where he taught Trial Practice Telep, she developed the Evidence-Based first narcotics unit, and helped oversee a28 York Post, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer from 1990 until 2004. He earned both his Policing Matrix, a translation tool designed for percent reduction in the city’s homicides. Supt. and Legal Times. He is Co-Chairperson, with undergraduate and juris doctor degrees at New police practitioners to better institutionalize McCarthy stresses the integral relationship Professor Mark Rosen, of the annual “Criminal York University. Mr. Reimer is a recipient of and utilize research on “what works” in between the community and beat officer to Law Update: A Program for Members of the the prestigious Champion of Indigent Defense policing into their strategic and tactical work together to report, solve and prevent Bar.” Award, presented by the National Association portfolio. Dr. Lum was recently awarded the crimes. of Criminal Defense Lawyers in 2003 and the U.S. Attorney General’s Citizen Volunteer POSSLEY, Maurice Gideon Award presented by the New York State Service Award for outstanding volunteer MURRAY, Timothy J. Maurice Possley, a former investigative Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in service to the Department of Justice. Timothy J. Murray is the Executive Director criminal justice reporter for the Chicago 2002. In his capacity as publisher of NACDL’s of the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI), a Tribune, has served as journalism coordinator highly acclaimed magazine, The Champion, MADDEN, Jerry nonprofit Wash DC-based group established for John Jay Center on Media, Crime and he authors a monthly column covering a wide Rep. Jerry Madden is senior fellow Right on with funding support from the Department of Justice projects on gun violence and pretrial range of criminal justice issues. Crime and former Chair of the Texas House Justice. He has worked as a criminal justice detention, and has contributed to The Crime Committee on Corrections. He was first elected practitioner at the local, state and federal Report. He has also worked as an investigative STARKMAN, Dean to the Texas Legislature in November of 1992. levels for 40 years. While in Miami, he was researcher for the Northern California Dean Starkman edits The Audit, the business Among his notable legislative initiatives were the principal architect and administrator of the Innocence Project’s Veritas Initiative. Along desk of the Columbia Journalism Review, the state’s highly successful 2007 criminal nation’s first drug court. He went on to serve with other Tribune reporters, he has been a where he is the magazine’s Kingsford Capital justice system reforms which sought to divert with the U.S. Department of Justice as first Pulitzer finalist twice for reporting on the Fellow. He is a co-winner of the 1994 Pulitzer individuals from prison through mental health director of the Drug Court Program Office. criminal justice system. His work and that Prize for Investigations while at the Providence Journal and worked eight years as a Wall Street studies in several institutions, including Yale level course work in applied psychology at Journal staff writer covering, among other University, Drew University, and Vanderbilt Penn State University. He is a member of things, white-collar crime and securities law. University. He earned his BA from Morehouse the American Correctional Association, the He is a co-editor of The Best Business Writing College, and his PhD from Drew University American Jail Association, the American anthology series for Columbia University (Ph.D.). He also writes a bi-monthly column College Football Coaches Association and Press. He is currently finishing a book, The for PRISM magazine, and is a contributor to is past president of the Pennsylvania County Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: the financial The Crime Report. Corrections Association (formerly PA County crisis and the financial press, also for CUP. Prison Wardens Association). He lives in VASSAR, Bobby Chambersburg PA with this wife, Theresa, and STEINBERG, Robin Bobby Vassar is Chief Counsel for the their four daughters. Robin Steinberg is a founding member and Minority, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism deputy director of The Neighborhood Defender and Homeland Security, House Judiciary WILLIAMS, Darrin Service of Harlem, and executive director of Committee. He is responsible for all legislative Rep. Darrin L. Williams, Speaker Pro Tem for The Bronx Defenders since 1997. She has assistance to Subcommittee Ranking Member the 89th Arkansas General Assembly, is serving been honored by the National Legal Aid and Robert C. “Bobby” Scott and other Members in his third term in the Arkansas House of Defender Association for “exceptional vision, of the Subcommittee. From 2007 to 2010, he Representatives. As Chairman of the House devotion and service in the quest for equal served as Chief Counsel for the Majority for Judiciary Committee, Rep. Williams led the justice,” and awarded Harvard Law School’s the Subcommittee, and from 1999 to 2006 passage of the Public Safety Improvement Act. Wasserstein Fellowship in recognition of her was Chief Counsel for the Minority. From This legislation provided for a comprehensive “outstanding contributions and dedication to 1994 to1999, he served as Senior Counsel and way to address Arkansas’s alarming growth public interest law.” A 1982 graduate of New Legislative Director, Office of Congressman in corrections spending and prison population York University School of Law, Robin began Robert C. Scott. Earlier in his career, he served growth. He is an attorney with Carney her career as a criminal trial lawyer with the as Virginia’s Acting Secretary for Health Williams Bates Pulliam & Bowman, PLLC in Legal Aid of Society. She currently serves on and Human Resources; Deputy Secretary, Little Rock, ARK. He received his law degree the Boards of Directors for the New York State Department of Social Services; and as from Vanderbilt University School of Law in Defender Associations, Roger Williams Law Chairman of the Virginia Parole Board. Prior Nashville, Tennessee and his Masters of Law School, and the Journal of Court Innovation, to 1982, Mr. Vassar was General Counsel from Georgetown Law Center in Washington, as well as on the New York City Alternative to and Executive Director, Peninsula Legal Aid DC. He was named to the Arkansas Business Incarceration Board and the Center for Court Center; and Senior Assistant, Office of the Vice “40 Under 40” list of influential state business Innovation Internal Review Board. She is a Chancellor for Administration, University of and political leaders, Most recently he was frequent teacher of trial skills to law students North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his named an Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellow in and professionals, and a panelist and speaker JD from the University of Virginia School Public Leadership. about public defense management and holistic of Law, and his BA from Norfolk State lawyering across the country and around the University. world. WETZEL, John TRULEAR, Harold Dean John Wetzel has served as Secretary of the Harold Dean Trulear is Associate Professor Pennsylvania Department of Corrections of Applied Theology at Howard University since 2011. He began his corrections career School of Divinity in Washington, DC. He in 1989 as an officer at the Lebanon County is also director of Healing Communities Correctional Facility. During his 20 years in Prison Ministry and Reentry Initiative of the field of corrections, Wetzel has presented the Philadelphia Leadership Foundation. statewide and nationally on topics, including Designed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, inmate labor issues, the mentally ill, working Healing Communities has been implemented with the family of inmates, developing in over 20 sites nationally, in partnership system-wide solutions to jail crowding, and with such organizations as the Progressive jail staffing. Among his achievements are a National Baptist Convention, the Christian jail industries program to increase the job Association for Prisoner Aftercare, and the readiness of offenders; the first jail-based National Women’s Prison Project. Dr. Trulear CareerLink access point in Pennsylvania; is an ordained American Baptist minister and developing a day reporting center which and founding president of GLOBE (God reduced jail populations. A former offensive Leading Our Best Efforts) Ministries, a youth line coach for Shippensburg University, services agency in Philadelphia, and has Wetzel earned a BA in psychology from taught religion, public policy, and community Bloomsburg University and has done master’s JOHN JAY/ HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM PRIZE JURORS

BARTON, Gina based college aimed at mid-career students. Prof. organization of reporters, writers, and have run alongside her photojournalism for The Gina Barton is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Capeloto, who earned her master’s degree in broadcasters who cover criminal justice. He is the Daily Yonder and Diverse. Here & Now, a daily law enforcement investigative reporter. She won journalism from Columbia University in 2000, author of Crime and Politics: Big Government’s broadcast on National Public Radio, has run her the 2011-2012 John Jay Excellence in Criminal also serves as faculty adviser for John Jay’s Erratic Campaign for Law and Order (2001) a photos on its Web site. Justice Reporting Award (series category) for student newspaper, The John Jay Sentinel . book on anticrime policy in the United States “Both Sides of the Law,” a multi-part series about since the late 1960s. Gest was a writer and POSSLEY, Maurice lawbreakers on the Milwaukee police force. Her DOMANICK, Joe editor at U.S. News & World Report, a weekly Maurice Possley, a former investigative criminal earlier work on the newspaper’s “Fatal Care” Joe Domanick, an award-winning investigative newsmagazine based in Washington, D.C., from justice reporter for the Chicago Tribune, has investigation, into the deaths of children in the journalist and author, is Associate Director of 1977 to 2000. After covering the White House, served as journalism coordinator for John Jay care of the child welfare system, won recognition the CMCJ and West Coast Bureau Chief of The he was the magazine’s chief legal affairs writer Center on Media, Crime and Justice projects in several national contests, including a 2010 Crime Report. His most recent book is Cruel for 15 years, covering the Justice Department, on gun violence and pretrial detention, and has Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. She Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime the Supreme Court, and crime and justice issues contributed to The Crime Report. He has also was part of a team that won a 2009 IRE Award in America’s Golden State. His previous book, nationally. After 1996, he served as national news worked as an investigative researcher for the for breaking news investigations for work To Protect and Serve: The LAPD’s Century of editor and as a writer on law schools and other Northern California Innocence Project’s Veritas examining holes in the state’s DNA database. Her War in the City of Dreams, won the 1995 Edgar education issues. Before joining U.S. News, Gest Initiative. Along with other Tribune reporters, he narrative series “Fatal Identity” was followed by Allan Poe Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. was a reporter and editor at the St. Louis Post- has been a Pulitzer finalist twice for reporting on charges against a longtime murder suspect. She Domanick has contributed articles and essays Dispatch. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the criminal justice system. His work and that of has worked at the Indianapolis Star, the South to magazines and newspapers across the U.S., the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia others at the Tribune was cited by Illinois Gov. Bend (Ind.) Tribune and the Huntington (W.Va.) including over 50 criminal-justice related op-ed University. He served as a juror in the John George Ryan in 2003 when he commuted all Herald-Dispatch. Barton holds a BA from pieces for the Los Angeles Times. He is currently Jay 2011-2012 Excellence in Criminal Justice death sentences to life in prison. He is the author Northwestern University and a Masters from working on his latest book, Road to Reckoning: Journalism Awards. of Everybody Pays: Two Men, One Murder and Indiana University-South Bend. The Collapse and Reformation of the LAPD, to the Price of Truth, the story of a mob hitman be published by Simon & Schuster in the Fall of GRAY, Katti and the witness against him, and The Brown’s CAPELOTO, Alexa 2013. Domanick holds graduate degrees in social Katti Gray is a contributing editor of The Crime Chicken Massacre, the story of a mass murder Alexa Capeloto is Assistant Professor of science from Hunter College, CUNY; education Report. A prize-winning veteran journalist, Ms. in Palatine, Il. A graduate of Loyola University Journalism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. and sociology from Columbia University; and Gray was a reporter and senior writer for 16 years of Chicago, he has been a visiting professor of She served as a 2011-2012 John Jay Prize juror. broadcast journalism from the USC Annenberg at Newsday in New York. She has covered hard journalism at the University of Montana and the Prof. Capeloto was a reporter and editor at the School of Journalism. He is based in Los news and soft: presidential hopefuls; statehouse University of Alaska. Detroit Free Press until joining the San Diego Angeles, and served as a juror in the John Jay/HF lawmakers; hometown heroes; time-honored Union-Tribune as East County bureau chief Guggenheim 2011-2012 Awards for Excellence and pop celebrities; floundering schools in in 2005. In 2007, she was named the paper’s in Criminal Justice Journalism. Appalachia; New Feminism’s younger adherents; enterprise editor, overseeing explanatory, trend juveniles on death row; the fight for running water and other enterprise stories. Before arriving at GEST, Ted on an outlying Mississippi road. Widely published John Jay in 2009, she was an adjunct instructor of Since 1998, Ted Gest has been president in newspapers and magazines across the U.S., she journalism at National University, a San Diego- of Criminal Justice Journalists, a national is a contributing writer to Essence Magazine, and wrote a twice-weekly column for Jet. Her articles DENVIR, Daniel Sun, was a finalist for the 2011 Livingston Daniel Denvir is a staff writer at Philadelphia Awards for Young Journalists and a finalist for City Paper, a contributing writer at Salon, a certificate in the 2011 Investigative Reporters and a frequent contributor to The Atlantic and and Editors contest. Baltimore Magazine Guardian. He reports on politics, poverty, and the CityPaper have also recognized immigration, inequality, education and him as the best reporter in Baltimore. His criminal justice. He describes his reporting investigation into Baltimore’s highest-in- as “putting a human face on the way federal, the-nation percentage of rape claims deemed state and local policies impact the poor who “unfounded” by detectives led to sweeping struggle in Philly’s streets, classrooms and local reforms and helped spark a hearing on courthouses.” Denvir is a 2010 recipient of the Capitol Hill that led to the first update in the Fulbright Berlin Capital Program scholarship federal definition of rape in 80 years. He has JOHN JAY/ and a French-American Foundation 2012 also done investigative work into how baseball Immigration Journalism Fellow. Fluent in Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr.’s taxpayer- Spanish, he also regularly reports on the financed minor league baseball stadium was HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM Latino community. choking his hometown, and covered the killing of five Amish children at a schoolhouse in DUMKE, Mick Nickel Mines, Pa. Recently, he participated in REPORTING FELLOWS Mick Dumke is a senior writer at the Chicago a “job swap” with a British crime reporter to Reader, where he has covered politics— explore differences between the U.S. and the including the politics of crime and policing— U.K. in crime-fighting. Justin is a graduate since 2005. For the past two years, he has of the University of Maryland’s College of ADAMS, Dominic and the workload in medical examiner offices reported on drug policies; and a series he Journalism, where he was an editor at the Dominic Adams is a police and breaking news throughout Texas. She also has written wrote, following his successful petition of campus daily, The Diamondback. reporter for MLive–Flint Journal in Flint, MI. extensively on forensic science issues, and local authorities for databases of marijuana He works in the most violent city in America she handled much of the coverage of the possession arrests and convictions, led to FERRISS, Susan per capita for cities with more than 100,000 controversy involving the science used to the decriminalization by Chicago authorities Susan Ferriss joined the Center for Public people, according to FBI statistics. His current convict Todd Willingham, who was executed of low-level possession by allowing police Integrity (based in Washington, DC) as work includes stories about an 87-year-old for setting a fire that killed his young children. to issue tickets instead of making arrests. In juvenile justice reporter in 2011. Before that, woman who was raped in broad daylight as she Ms. Berard’s Reporting Fellowship is addition to the Reader, his work has appeared she covered politics and immigration for the carried groceries into her home, and how Flint supported by the Public Welfare Foundation. in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Sacramento Bee and taught at the University residents live in fear as the city inches toward and the Chicago Tribune. He earned his of California, Berkeley Graduate School another record-setting year of homicides. CLARK, Lelani Bachelor’s degree in religion at Northwestern of Journalism. Her coverage of immigrant Before coming to Flint, Adams covered the Lelani Clark, a journalist, producer and film University, and a Master of Divinity at workers, including elder caregivers, was gruesome murder and dismemberment of a critic, is the host of “Movies that Move” on McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. recognized for best diversity reporting by 9-year-old girl who was killed by her babysitter the top- rated morning drive time show Wake Columbia University’s Graduate School of three days before Christmas in Fort Wayne, Up Call (WBAI 99.5 FM/Pacifica Network), EZELL, Wayne Journalism. From 1997 to 2006, Susan was the Ind. Before Flint, Adams worked as a police and the TV host of “On Screen with Lelani Wayne Ezell became an Editorial Writer at Mexico-based Latin America correspondent and web reporter for The Journal Gazette in Clark” (APTV) distributed on Omniverse TV, the Times-Union in September 2011. Prior for Cox Newspapers. Her series on failed Fort Wayne, Ind., where the death of Aliahna NBC Universal, Filmon and Roku. She has to that he served as Business Editor for three Mexican economic reforms won top prizes Lemmon occurred. partnered with The Creative Coalition, the years and as Reader Advocate (ombudsman) from the Overseas Press Club prize and the premier national arts organization, to showcase for three years. Before joining the Times- Inter-American Press Association. Susan BERARD, Yamil and promote award-winning independent films Union in 2005, he was publisher of the Winter was also a reporter for the San Francisco Yamil Berard is an investigative reporter at with a strong social message. She graduated Haven News Chief, a Central Florida daily Examiner; producer of “The Golden Cage,” a the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She immigrated with honors from the University of California, then owned by Morris Communications, documentary about farm labor; and co-author to the U.S. from Cuba as a young child and Berkeley and is currently pursuing her PhD at parent company of the Times-Union. Earlier of The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and grew up in Los Angeles, where she attended NYU. For her outstanding work in the media, in his career Ezell was editor of the Boca the Farmworkers Movement. She is a graduate the University of Southern California, earning Ms. Clark has been featured in the New York Raton News, deputy managing editor of the of UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley’s Graduate degrees in print journalism and business Post Page Six, CNN, HLN, Associated Press, Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader, city School of Journalism, and was a Knight fellow administration. She has a passion for stories Village Voice and MTV. She was a 2012 editor of the Tallahassee Democrat and capital at Stanford University. involving the criminal justice system and John Jay/Tow Foundation Juvenile Justice bureau chief for Gannett’s Florida newspapers how its inner workings impact the daily lives Reporting Fellow and is a member of the New in Tallahassee. GARCIA-ROBERTS, Gus of everyday citizens. Her work includes a York Chapter of the National Academy of Gus Garcia-Roberts is an investigative reporter series that revealed how justice was being Television Arts and Science and the National FENTON, Justin at Newsday with a special interest in the police undermined by mistakes, conflicts of interest Association of Black Journalists. Justin Fenton, a reporter for The Baltimore beat and criminal justice. Previously, he was a staff writer at the Cleveland Scene and the break up a local gang of robbers. He has been Doctor from Vermont Law School (1988), and also won a 2009 Sigma Delta Chi award for senior writer at Miami New Times, both of the working in newspapers since 1995, including a BA in journalism from Marquette University non-deadline reporting from the Society of Village Voice Media chain. In 2012, he was the last 12 years covering the criminal justice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1985). On the Professional Journalists and the Gold Medal named a finalist for the Livingston Awards system. In 2004, he was selected as a USC steering board of The Reporters Committee for Public Service from the Florida Society for Young Journalists and an Investigative Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism for Freedom of the Press, she currently serves of News Editors. She studied ethnic and Reporters and Editors award, and won the fellow, producing a series of stories on the as Clinical Professor of Journalism at Boston gender studies at Mount Holyoke College Sigma Delta Chi award for public service impact of a program to speed up and increase University. Ms Mulvihill was a 2012 John Jay/ and completed the Poynter Institute’s 2007 journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and is a paroles in Alabama. In 2008, he participated Tow Juvenile Justice Reporting Fellow. summer fellowship for young journalists. She graduate of Indiana’s Earlham College. in a workshop sponsored by the Addiction was an invited participant in the 2012 John Jay Studies Program, which is dedicated to NOBLE, Andrea ISI Roundtable for Law Enforcement and the HOUPPERT, Karen improving coverage of addiction issues. Kirby Andrea Noble covers crime and public safety Media in Berkeley, CA. Karen Houppert is a contributing writer at lives in Daphne, AL with his wife, 10-year-old in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region The Washington Post Magazine and also daughter and 7-year-old son. for The Washington Times. Previously, she WISSEL, Paula freelances for other magazines, covering worked as a reporter for The Gazette, the Paula Wissel has been a law and justice social and political issues. Her work has LESTCH, Corinne Washington Post’s chain of community reporter for KPLU, a National Public Radio appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, Corinne Lestch has been a reporter at the newspapers in Maryland. Ms Noble moved station in Tacoma, WA since 1989. She served The Nation, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, New York Daily News since 2010, where she to Washington in 2006 to cover foreign policy as Executive Producer of KPLU’s year-long Ms., The Village Voice and other magazines covers education in the Bronx and writes a bi- for an online publication after working on an series “I Wonder Why…?” which explored the and anthologies. She is the author of two weekly local education column, in addition to independent documentary film project in India. unique quirks, attributes, culture and history nonfiction books, The Curse (Farrar, Straus coverage of crime and general assignments A graduate of Webster University in St. Louis, of the Pacific Northwest and garnered several & Giroux, 1999) and Home Fires Burning across the five boroughs. In her earlier career, she studied both journalism and sociology. local and national awards including a 2012 (Ballantine, 2005). Her third book, Chasing she was a business reporter for Medill News When not working odd hours at the Times, she RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Regional Award Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Service in Washington, DC and an education can be found DJing around town or organizing for “Best Feature.” Prior to KPLU, she worked Justice (New Press) to be released in March reporting intern at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. bouts for D.C.’s philanthropic league of lady in public radio and television in Boise, San 2013, explores the national crisis in indigent From March 2010 to June 2011 she was a arm wrestlers. Francisco and Seattle. In 2011, she was a fellow defense. She lives in Baltimore, MD. student investigator of the Medill Innocence for the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists Project in Evanston, Illinois, where she WALSHE, Sadhbh and the Constitution in Philadelphia. KIEFER, Michael investigated the conviction of a Chicago man Sadhbh Walshe is a US-based columnist for Michael Kiefer has covered courts and legal imprisoned for homicide. Letsch received her The Guardian in the UK, where she covers issues for nine of his 10 years at The Arizona BS in Journalism from the Medill School of US criminal justice and the American prison Republic. He was part of the 2012 Pulitzer Journalism at Northwestern University in system. A native of Ireland, Ms Walshe began finalist team covering the Tucson shooting 2010. She briefly attended the Universidad de her journalistic career in America working of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and broke Sevilla in Spain, where she wrote cultural op- for WNYC Radio, and has since worked on the story that Arizona and other states were eds in Spanish for the La Semana newspaper. various film and television projects—focusing illegally buying drugs from Europe to carry She was a 2012 John Jay/Tow Juvenile Justice on the interconnected fields in social and out executions by lethal injection. Kiefer has Reporting Fellow. criminal justice. Her first staff writing job won more than two dozen state and national was for the CBS TV drama, “The District.” writing awards and is the author of three MULVIHILL, Maggie Working on that series, she says, exposed books, including Chasing the Panda, which Maggie Mulvihill is co-founder and co- her “to the inherent bias in our incarceration the Times Literary Supplement called, “a director of the New England Center for policies that ensure minority communities are fascinating account of brotherly antagonism Investigative Reporting at Boston University, vastly overrepresented in our prisons.” She is and the complexities of Chinese-American life established in 2008 as the first non-profit, currently working on a book about the over in the twentieth century.” A former associate university-based investigative reporting center incarceration of women in America, The War editor of Outside magazine, his articles have dedicated to local and regional issues. Earlier, on Women Inside and is a finalist for a 2013 appeared in The New York Times Magazine, she worked as an investigative producer at Soros Justice Fellowship. Esquire, Playboy, and Vanity Fair. He has WHDH-TV and WBZ–TV, Boston, where degrees from Lafayette College and the she led award-winning investigative staffs; WALTER, Shoshana University of Michigan. and as an investigative reporter for the Boston Shoshana Walter is the crime and punishment Herald. A former Harvard Nieman Fellow reporter for The Bay Citizen, a project of KIRBY, Brendan (2004), her awards include the New England the Center for Investigative Reporting in Brendan Kirby covers criminal justice for the Associated Press News Executive Association California. She has written about aging police Press-Register in Mobile, AL. He was a finalist award in the Investigative Reporting category technology, street gangs and violent crime, and for the Green Eyeshade Awards in the Courts (2002) for the Herald project “Field of the balance between police and civil liberties. and the Law Reporting category in 2009 for Schemes.” A member of the Bar in both New Before moving to San Francisco, she wrote a story about the FBI’s use of MySpace to York and Massachusetts, she received her Juris for The Ledger in Lakeland, FL, where she PRIZE WINNERS BIOS WINNING ARTICLES AND WRITERS HAYNES, Brian OUTSTANDING CAREER CONTRIBUTION EXCELLENCE IN Brian Haynes is editor of computer-assisted reporting at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Presenter: CRIMINAL JUSTICE REPORTING Since joining the newspaper in 2003, he has Lt. Terrence McLarney, covered criminal justice, breaking news, and Baltimore Police Department BEST SINGLE STORY 2013: WINNER child welfare issues in Southern Nevada. McLarney is best known as a longtime city He previously worked at The Times-News Detective, who from 2008 through 2011 was Shane Bauer, Mother Jones Magazine in Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Capital in the commanding officer of Baltimore’s famed “No Way Out” Annapolis, Md. A Southern California native, Homicide Unit. In 981 McLarney was assigned Haynes is a graduate of the Indiana University to the homicide unit, where he served as a Shane Bauer is a freelance investigative journalist and award-winning photographer based in Oakland, CA. School of Journalism. He lives in Henderson, Homicide Detective. This includes as a Detective, A fluent Arabic speaker, his work has largely focused on the Middle East and North Africa. From 2009-2011 Nev., with his wife and three daughters. the individual responsible for the investigation Shane was held hostage in Iran with his now wife Sarah Shourd and friend Josh Fattal, with whom he is of each murder; as a Detective Sergeant, who currently writing a book. Seven months after his release from Iranian prison, he went back behind the wire MAIMON, Alan supervises “squads” of six detectives; as a to investigate solitary confinement in California. His articles have appeared in Mother Jones magazine, The Alan Maimon is a journalist, researcher, and the Detective Lieutenant, who is responsible for Nation, the L.A. Times, Salon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, and many other author of three sports books. As a reporter for the management of four squads of detectives the Louisville Courier-Journal, he was a finalist and lastly and most notably as the commanding publications. for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. officer of the Homicide Section. He started his writing career as a news assistant RUNNER-UP and sportswriter in the Berlin bureau of The Awardee: Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker Magazine New York Times. He is currently an investigator David Simon for Centurion Ministries, a Princeton, NJ-based David Simon is a Baltimore-based journalist, “The Throwaways” nonprofit that is the oldest innocence project in author and television producer. Born in the country. He is a graduate of Brown University Washington, he came to Baltimore in 1983 to Sarah Stillman is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism work as a crime reporter at The Baltimore Sun. Institute. Her coverage of human trafficking on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan received the While at the paper, he reported and wrote two MOWER, Lawrence National Magazine Award, the Michael Kelly Award for the fearless pursuit and expression of truth, and an works of narrative non-fiction, Homicide: A Year Lawrence Mower has covered the university Overseas Press Club Award. She is currently reporting on immigration, the U.S. prison system, and the war on On The Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year system, police and county government since drugs, as well as covering Mexico’s cartel violence and the mass kidnappings of migrants. in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the joining the Las Vegas Review-Journal as an former an account of a year spent with the city intern in 2006. In 2010, after covering two years homicide squad and the latter, a year spent on a of controversial Las Vegas police shootings, he West Baltimore drug corner. pitched a yearlong investigation into the subject. Homicide became the basis for the NBC BEST SERIES 2013: WINNER The series, “Deadly Force,” was published in five drama which aired from 1993 to 1999 and for parts in late 2011. Mower graduated from the Cindy Chang The Times- Picayune which Simon worked as a writer and producer University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2006 with a after leaving The Sun in 1995. The Corner became “Louisiana Incarcerated: How We Built the degree in journalism and an outside emphasis in an HBO miniseries and won three Emmy Awards accounting. World’s Prison Capital” in 2000. The Wire, a subsequent HBO drama, aired from 2002 to 2008 and depicted a dystopic Other writers on the series: Jan Moller, John Simerman and Jonathan Tilove. WRIGHT, James American city contending with a fraudulent drug James G. Wright, 55, is deputy editor for metro war, the loss of its industrial base, political and Cindy Chang is a graduate of Yale University and New York University School of Law. and business news for the Las Vegas Review- educational systems incapable of reform and a She began her journalism career at the Pasadena Star-News, eventually moving to the New Orleans Times- Journal, and was the project editor for the media culture oblivious to all of the above. Picayune where her beats included city government and schools. She was the lead writer for the Times- Deadly Force series. Before joining the Review- Also in 2008, Simon served as a writer and Picayune series Louisiana Incarcerated, which exposed how for-profit prisons have led to the world’s highest Journal in 2010 he was editor of the Twin Falls executive producer of HBO’s Generation Kill, incarceration rate. She now covers immigration and ethnic communities for the Los Angeles Times. (Idaho) Times-News, assistant managing editor a miniseries depicting U.S. Marines in the early of the Albany (NY) Times Union and assistant days of the Iraq conflict. His most recent project metro editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. RUNNER-UP is a drama about post-Katrina New Orleans He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from entitled “Treme.” Simon also does prose work for Lawrence Mower, Alan Maimon and Brian Hayes, the University of Idaho and a master’s degree The New Yorker, Esquire and The Washington in public administration from the University of James G. Wright, Las Vegas Review Journal Post, among other publications. 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THE HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. For more information, visit www.hfg.org

THE PUBLIC SAFETY PERFORMANCE PROJECT, PEW CENTER ON THE STATES Launched in 2006 as an operating project of the Pew Center on the States, the Public Safety Performance Project helps states advance fiscally sound, data-driven sentencing and corrections policies and practices that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control costs. For more information visit www.pewcenteronthestates.org

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