7 th Annual FEBRUARY 6 –7, 2012 Harry Frank Guggenheim JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF Symposium on Crime in America CRIMINAL JUSTICE NEW YORK CITY

The Problem That Won’t Go Away

How Drugs, Race and Mass Incarceration Have Distorted American Justice (and What To Do About It) Agenda

DAY ONE – FEB 6 12:45-2:00pm LUNCH DAY TWO – FEB 7 12:00-12:30pm WORKING LUNCH VENUE: John Jay College of Criminal Justice (PRIVATE for Fellows and Invited Guests) Venue: Conference Room L61 (For Fellows and Invited Guests) Conference Room L-61 2:00–3:30pm PANEL 3: 8:00-8:30am 12:30-2:00pm 8:00-8:30am CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST STORY LAB WORKSHOP 1: TRENDS 2011-2012 COVERING VICTIMS: 8:30-8:45am WELCOME Al Blumstein, Professor of Urban Systems and 8:30-10:00am PANEL 5: THE TWO-TRACK WORLD Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University AFTER PRISON, WHAT? Venue room 630T Haaren Hall President, John Jay College of Jeremy Travis, Professor of Economics and Criminal Justice Philip J. Cook, BREAKING THE MOLD ON Susan Herman, Associate Professor, Department Sociology, Duke University PRISONER RE-ENTRY of Criminal Justice, Pace University, Author, Parallel Director, Center on Media Stephen Handelman, Senior Researcher, Center on Justice for Victims of Crime Crime and Justice (CMCJ) Michael Males, Asst District Attorney, Nassau County Juvenile and Criminal Justice Risco Lewis, (NY) National Network for Safe Communities Marie Verzulli, Victim/survivor advocate, New Associate Professor of Economics Yorkers for Alternative to the Death Penalty 8:45-9:15am William Black, Founder, Think Outside the Cell KEYNOTE SPEECH and Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City Sheila Rule, Foundation MODERATOR: Cara Tabachnick, Deputy Director, Gov. Dannel Malloy, State of Connecticut MODERATOR: Stephen Handelman, Director, CMCJ Center on Media, Crime and Justice Ray Tebout, Director of Counseling, College Initiative, John Jay College 9:15-10:45am PANEL 1: 3:30-3:45pm BREAK 2:00-2:15pm BREAK AMERICA’S ADDICTIONS Margaret Love, Former Pardon Attorney, US Department of Justice Bridget Brennan, Special Narcotics Prosecutor, NYC 3:45-5:15pm PANEL 4: 2:15-3:45pm AMERICA’S PRISONS: WHAT DO MODERATOR: Ann Jacobs, Director, John Jay Dr. Khalil Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Prisoner Re-Entry Institute STORY LAB WORKSHOP 2: Center for Research in Black Culture YOU MEAN “EARLY RELEASE”? TRENDS & ISSUES IN CJ COVERAGE (Pew-Sponsored Panel) Benjamin Tucker, Deputy Director, White House 10:00-10:20am BREAK Office on National Drug Control Policy Leann K. Bertsch, Director, North Dakota Dept of Joe Domanick, Associate Director, Center on Corrections and Rehabilitation Media, Crime and Justice William Burrell, Journal of American Probation and 10:20am-12:00pm PANEL 6: Parole Association, Former Director Adult Probation, Patricia Caruso, Former Director, Michigan Dept of Report on Three Strikes project Mandatory Minimum New Jersey Corrections DID YOU SEE THAT MAN? Sentencing with participation of 3 strikes fellows MODERATOR: Byron Pitts, CBS 60 Minutes Matt Cate, Secretary, California Department of THE CHALLENGE TO Eric Cadora, Justice Mapping Project Corrections and Rehabilitation EYEWITNESS ID Dave Krajicek, Criminal Justice Journalists 10:45-11:15am BREAK Brian Fischer, Commissioner, New York State Fernando Bermudez, Exoneree, New York State [presentation of case study] Department of Corrections and Community Jennifer Dysart, Associate Professor, John Jay 11:15am-12:45pm PANEL 2: Supervision College 3:45-4:00pm BREAK GANGS, DRUGS AND MODERATOR: Martin Horn, Distinguished Brandon Garrett, Professor of Law, University of Lecturer, John Jay College, former NYC Correction Virginia Law School; author “Convicting the Innocent” URBAN VIOLENCE: CAN THE Commissioner 4:00-5:00pm CONNECTIONS BE BROKEN? Joseph Krakora, New Jersey Public Defender CONFERENCE WRAP Charlie Beck, Chief, Los Angeles Police Department 5:30-6:15pm Tracie Keesee, Division Chief, Denver Police GUGGENHEIM FELLOW PROJECT (LAPD) PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION Department REVIEWS, CMCJ STAFF/JOHN JAY Office of John Jay President Room 625 Haaren Hall David Kennedy, Director, John Jay Center on Crime MODERATOR: Jeff Rosen, George Washington PRIZE JUDGES Prevention and Control University Law School; Legal Affairs Editor, New MODERATOR: Joe Domanick, Associate Director, 6:30-8:00pm JOHN JAY/HF Republic Connie Rice, Co-director, Advancement Project, LA GUGGENHEIM AWARD DINNER Center on Media, Crime and Justice Donyee Bradley, Gang Outreach Worker, ROOM 630T Haaren Hall (by invitation only) Washington DC END OF PUBLIC SESSIONS MODERATOR: Jeff Butts, Director, John Jay Center FEATURED SPEAKER Lunch and Workshop sessions on Feb 7 afternoon for Guggenheim Fellows and special guests only on Research and Evaluation Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence, Yale University, former Supreme Court correspondent, New York Times

CRIME, Panelists

Charlie Beck instance of New York case law in which a Charlie Beck was appointed Chief of the Los judge has overturned a conviction on “actual Angeles Police Department in November 2009. innocence grounds” without DNA evidence. He oversees the third largest police department His story has been featured on national and ONLINE in the U.S., managing 10,000 sworn officers local news, including the New York Times and 3,000 civilian employees, and an annual and the Daily News, and on all major TV Visit THECRIMEREPORT.ORG for the latest budget that exceeds $ 1 billion. Having played networks and TRU TV, formerly Court TV. It a key role in instituting the reforms begun was the subject of Innocent: Inside Wrongful in online criminal justice reporting. by his predecessor, Bill Bratton, Chief Beck Conviction Cases by Scott Christianson continues to evolve and refine those strategies. (NYU Press 2006; ISBN 9780814716755). Major components of this endeavor include Mr. Bermudez is married with three children the mitigation of crime, the reduction of gang and lives in Connecticut. He has completed violence, the containment of terrorism, and his bachelor’s degree in behavioral science the continuation of the reforms that brought and is considering two law school entry and the department into compliance with the 2000 postgraduate degree offers while adjusting to federal Consent Decree. Chief Beck was life outside of prison and writing for Columbia appointed to the department in March 1977 University’s Law Journal. In February 2011 after serving two years in the Los Angeles he filed a $30 million dollar suit against the Police Reserve Corps. He was promoted to City of New York for being incarcerated for 18 Sergeant in June 1984, to Lieutenant in April years for a homicide he didn’t commit. 1993, to Captain in July 1999, Commander YOUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE NEWS SOURCE in April 2005, and to Deputy Chief in August 2006. Leann K. Bertsch Leann K. Bertsch was appointed Director of the North Dakota Department of Corrections www.thecrimereport.org Fernando Bermudez and Rehabilitation on July 1, 2005 by Gov. Fernando Bermudez served more than 18 years John Hoeven. Prior to serving as Director, in New York State maximum security prisons Bertsch served as the Commissioner of @ thecrimereport /thecrimereport following his wrongful conviction of murder the North Dakota Department of Labor in the shooting death of Raymond Blount in from September 2004 through June 2005. 1991. He was freed in late 2009 with assistance Currently, Bertsch serves as the North Dakota from pro bono attorneys from Washington, Commissioner for the Interstate Compact D.C., New Jersey and New York--- a rare for Adult Offender Supervision, Member of the Commission for the Study of Racial and served on the President’s Crime Commission Prior to that, she was Chief of the Special reports for the U.S. Department of Justice and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, Member of the (1966-67) as Director of Science and Investigations Bureau, overseeing some of other agencies, and articles in journals such as Commission on Alternatives to Incarceration, Technology, and chaired National Academy the most significant narcotics investigations in the American Journal of Criminal Law, Crime Member of the Governor’s Task Force on of Sciences panels on research on Deterrent the country. Before her legal career, she was a and Delinquency, Criminal Justice Policy Violent and Sexual Offenders, Member of and Incapacitative Effects on Sentencing, and print, radio and television reporter in her native Review, Judicature, Law & Policy, Juvenile & the Interagency Council on Homelessness, on Criminal Careers. His policy appointments Wisconsin. Ms. Brennan graduated from the Family Court Journal, and Youth & Society. Member of the North Dakota Commission include chair of the Pennsylvania Commission University of Wisconsin Law School with a His research findings and policy views have on Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Member of on Crime and Delinquency (1979-1990) and Juris Doctor degree. She holds a Bachelor of been covered by the New York Times, the the Stop Violence Against Women Advisory the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing Arts degree in Journalism from the University Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Committee. Bertsch belongs to the Association (1986-96). Awards and degrees include an of Wisconsin. the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco of State Correctional Administrators. Bertsch honorary degree of Doctors of Laws from John Chronicle, the Miami Herald, the Economist, earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Sutherland Christian Science Monitor, BusinessWeek, North Dakota School of Law and Bachelor Award of the American Society of Criminology William D. Burrell US News & World Report, Time Magazine, of Science degree from North Dakota State (1987) for “contributions to research,” and the William D. Burrell is an independent National Public Radio, and CNN, among University. Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2007. Prof. corrections management consultant specializing others. Previously, Jeff was a Research Blumstein served as ASC president (1991-92). in community corrections, evidence-based Fellow with Chapin Hall at the University of practices, performance measurement and Chicago, director of the Program on Youth William K. Black organizational change. From 2003 to 2007, Justice at the Urban Institute in Washington, Bill Black, one of the country’s leading Donyee Bradley he was a member of the faculty in the DC, and a senior research associate with the scholars on white collar crime, is an Associate Donyee Bradley is a Senior Outreach Worker Department of Criminal Justice at Temple National Center for Juvenile Justice. A native Professor of Economics and Law at the at the Columbia Heights Shaw Family Support University in Philadelphia. Prior to joining of Springfield, Ohio, Jeff began his career as a University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). Collaborative (CH/SFSC) in Washington DC, the Temple faculty, Bill served for 19 years as drug and alcohol counselor with the juvenile He was litigation director of the Federal where he is responsible for youth engagement chief of adult probation services for the New court in Eugene, Oregon. Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of (specifically, with crew-involved youth). Jersey state court system. Bill is chairman the FSLIC, SVP and General Counsel of the He brings more than 10 years of youth and of the Editorial Committee for Perspectives, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, family service experience to his work. Prior the journal of the American Probation and Eric Cadora and Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of to his recent promotion as an outreach worker, Parole Association (APPA) and serves on Eric Cadora is founder and director of the Thrift Supervision. He also served as deputy Donyee served as a Family Preservation APPA’s Board of Directors. He has consulted, Justice Mapping Center, based in Brooklyn, director of the National Commission on Specialist (case manager) at CH/SFSC, and and developed and delivered training on NY, which helps states around the country re- Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and has an A.A. degree from Faith University in performance measurement and evidence-based orient their use of criminal justice policies and Enforcement, and helped the World Bank Biblical Counseling and is pursuing his B.S.W. practices for probation and parole agencies resources by mapping the prison migration develop anti-corruption initiatives, served His educational, personal and professional at the federal, state and county level. Bill is flows and parole/probation surveillance as an expert for OFHEO in its enforcement experience make him ideal for mentoring, currently a consultant on parole supervision patterns of residents in high incarceration/ action against Fannie Mae’s CEO, and assisted engaging and outreaching to at-risk youth in issues with the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy reentry neighborhoods. Before establishing the Icelandic and French leaders responding to the community. Center, and the Center for Effective Public Center, Cadora served as program officer for their financial crises. Black has testified to Policy’s National Parole Resource Center. He The After Prison Initiative at the Open Society Congress four times about the financial crisis. is a regular commentator for The Crime Report Institute (OSI) and spent 14 years at the Center He is Benzinga’s regulatory columnist, and Bridget G. Brennan for Alternative Sentencing and Employment the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Bridget G. Brennan has been New York City’s Services (CASES), where he directed the is to Own One (University of Texas Press Special Narcotics Prosecutor since 1998, the Jeffrey Butts Research and Policy, Court Communications 2005). His papers can be downloaded, without first woman to hold that position. Under Ms. Jeffrey A. Butts (Ph.D., University of and Day Center divisions. Cadora is co-author charge, at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/ Brennan’s direction, the Office has developed Michigan) is director of the Research and of Community Justice, with Todd Clear, which AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=658251 innovative strategies to stem the flow of drugs Evaluation Center at John Jay College of reviews the emergence of community policing into the city and target emerging problems, such Criminal Justice, City University of New in the 1980s, community courts in the 1990s, as the illegal sale of prescription medication York (CUNY), and senior research advisor and the community corrections of the new Alfred Blumstein and drug trafficking over the Internet. Ms. at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York millennium. Alfred Blumstein is the J. Erik Jonsson Brennan established the Prescription Drug City. His work focuses on research and University of Urban Systems and Operations Unit, the Narcotics Gang Unit, and the Money evaluation projects designed to discover and Research and former Dean (1986-1993) Laundering and Financial Investigations improve policies and programs for at-risk and Patricia L. Caruso at the Heinz College of Carnegie Mellon Unit. Additionally, Special Narcotics runs disconnected youth, especially those involved Patricia L. Caruso spent 23 years with University. Mr. Blumstein was appointed by programs offering treatment instead of with the justice system. He has more than the Michigan Department of Corrections Attorney General Eric Holder in 2010 to chair prison to qualifying addicted defendants. Ms. 25 years of experience in research, program including nine years as a warden and almost the Science Advisory Board for the Office of Brennan joined the Office in 1992 and served evaluation, policy analysis, and direct services. eight years as the Director of the Department, Justice Programs. Prof. Blumstein has also as the second in command from 1995 to 1997. Dr. Butts has published two books, dozens of serving as a cabinet member to Governor Jennifer Granholm. She retired from the Philip J. Cook conferences, public defender programs, police criminal procedure, wrongful convictions, Department on January 1, 2011. As Director, Philip J. Cook, Ph.D., is ITT/Sanford conferences, investigator conferences, and habeas corpus, forensic science, corporate Patricia was responsible for directing the Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of universities, and has more recently testified crime, civil procedure and constitutional law. administration of Michigan’s correctional Economics and Sociology, at Duke University. before legislative committees concerning Harvard Press recently published Garrett’s system. During her tenure the Department He served as director and chair of Duke’s eyewitness identification procedures. Dr. book “Convicting the Innocent” which successfully reduced the prison population Sanford Institute of Public Policy from 1985- Dysart also testifies as an expert witness on examines the first 250 DNA exonerations in by more than 7,500 prisoners, implemented 89, and again from 1997-99, and is currently eyewitness memory in both state and federal the U.S. He attended Columbia Law School, the nationally acclaimed Michigan Prisoner Senior Associate Dean of the Sanford School court. where he was an articles editor on the law Reentry Initiative, realized a 33% reduction of Public Policy. He has served on expert review and a Kent Scholar. He clerked for in recidivism, greatly expanded public and panels of the National Academies dealing Second Circuit Judge Pierre N. Leval and was private community partnerships, increased with alcohol-abuse prevention; injury control; Brian Fischer an associate at Neufeld, Scheck & Brustin LLP use of electronic monitoring, and closed 14 violence; school rampage shootings; underage Brian Fischer, Commissioner of the New in New York City. facilities. Director Caruso is the Past President drinking; the prospects for a ballistics York State Department of Corrections and of the Association of State Correctional reference data base; and the deterrent effect of Community Supervision, leads the nation’s Administrators, the national association the death penalty. He is currently vice chair fourth-largest state correctional system Linda Greenhouse which represents the 55 corrections directors of the National Research Council’s Committee with 57,069 offenders incarcerated in 67 Linda Greenhouse is the Joseph Goldstein at the state, federal, and large city level. She on Law and Justice, and previously served as facilities and is responsible for the community Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished was recently elected as President-Elect of a member of the Division Committee for the supervision of 37,917 parolees. Combined, Journalist-in-Residence at Yale Law School. the Association of Women Executives in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. there are 31,219 employees, including 1,844 She assumed this position in 2009 after a 40- Corrections and re-elected as the Vice President His most recent books are Controlling Crime: engaged in community supervision activities. year career at the New York Times, including of the American Correctional Association. Strategies and Tradeoffs (co-edited with Jens He began his career with the New York State 30 years covering the United States Supreme Ludwig and Justin McCrary: University of Narcotic Addiction Control Commission in Court. At Yale, she is a member of the faculty Chicago Press, 2011) and of Paying the Tab 1968, working as an Aftercare (Parole) Officer. of the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic and Matthew Cate (Princeton University Press, 2007). Dr. Cook He became Superintendent of the Sing Sing teaches other Supreme Court-related courses. Matthew Cate was appointed by Governor is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the Correctional Facility in 2000, and while Her numerous journalism awards include a Arnold Schwarzenegger on May 16, 2008, National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow there he helped implement a comprehensive Pulitzer Prize in 1998 (beat reporting); the as Secretary of the California Department in the American Society of Criminology, as transitional pre-release program for inmates Carey McWilliams Award from the American of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Prior to well as a research associate of the National with serious mental health needs. In addition, he Political Science Association in 2002 for this appointment, Mr. Cate was appointed Bureau of Economic Research. He serves as championed several non-traditional programs, “a major journalistic contribution to our as Inspector General by Governor Arnold co-director of the Crime Lab at the University some of which have become models for other understanding of politics”; and the Goldsmith Schwarzenegger in March 2004 and of Chicago. prisons: college, theater, and domestic violence Career Award for Excellence in Journalism subsequently confirmed by the state senate and parenting skills for men. Recent honors from Harvard University’s Kennedy School in to that position. Since 2007, he also served include: the New York State Bar Association 2004. Recent publications include a biography as the chair of the California Rehabilitation Jennifer Dysart Award for Outstanding Contribution in the of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Oversight Board and in that capacity was Jennifer Dysart is a tenured Associate Field of Corrections, 2011 and the Public Justice Blackmun, published in 2005, and responsible for reporting to the state legislature Professor of Psychology at John Jay College Service Award (2009) from the Community Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the on the progress made by the California of Criminal Justice in New York City. She College Fellowship, City University of New Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from York. Commissioner Fischer has been an Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel), published in in fulfilling its obligation to provide effective Queen’s University and has been conducting adjunct professor at both Pace University and 2010. A new book, The U.S. Supreme Court: rehabilitative programs to California’s inmates research on eyewitness identification for John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is A Very Short Introduction, will be published and parolees. Prior to becoming California’s over 13 years. Her research focuses on how on the Executive Board of the Association of by Oxford University Press in early 2012. Inspector General, Mr. Cate served as a state police identification procedures can lead to State Correctional Administrators, which is Ms. Greenhouse is one of two non-lawyer and local prosecutor. In 2003, while working the mistaken identification of innocent people made up of individuals who run state and local honorary members of the American Law on federal fraud and corruption matters, and how the implementation of safeguards prison and jail systems across the country, Institute, which awarded her its Henry J. Mr. Cate was cross-designated as a Special may reduce these errors. Dr. Dysart has and was appointed by Chief Judge Jonathan Friendly Medal in 2002. She is a graduate of Assistant United States Attorney. Mr. Cate published in peer-reviewed psychology Lippman as a member of the NYS Permanent Radcliffe College, Harvard and a member of earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from journals and has written several book chapters Commission on Sentencing. the Harvard University Board of Overseers. the University of Oregon School of Law on eyewitness identification accuracy. She has and a bachelor of science degree in business also co-authored a book with Dr. Elizabeth administration from Linfield College, where Loftus and James Doyle titled “Eyewitness Brandon L. Garrett Stephen Handelman he was a National Scholar Athlete. He is a Testimony: Civil and Criminal, 4th Ed.” (Lexis Brandon L. Garrett is the Roy L. and Rosamund Stephen Handelman was appointed Director member of the California State Bar. Nexis). Over the past six years, Dr. Dysart Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law at the of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice has spoken about the fallibility of eyewitness University of Virginia School of Law, where at John Jay College in May 2007. He is identification at over 60 judicial education he has taught since 2005. His interests include Executive Editor of The Crime Report and Host of Criminal Justice Matters, CUNY Martin Horn David M. Kennedy Research, Training and Technology at the TV. An internationally known author and Martin F. Horn is Distinguished Lecturer at David M. Kennedy is director of the Center Denver Police Department (DPDF), and the co- investigative journalist whose award-winning the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the for Crime Prevention and Control at John founder and Executive Director of Operations work has intersected the worlds of journalism, City University of New York. For nearly seven Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is author for the Consortium for Police Leadership higher education, international security, justice years prior to joining the faculty in September, of several books, most recently the critically in Equity. A Denver, Colorado native and and human rights, he is an expert on post- 2009, he served simultaneously as Correction acclaimed Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street 21-year veteran with the DPD, her previous Soviet crime and corruption, and a veteran Commissioner and Probation Commissioner Fellowship and The End of Violence in assignments included Commander, Detective foreign correspondent who has reported from for the City of New York. Mr. Horn has over Inner-City America (Bloomsbury 2011). in Crimes Against Persons (Patrol Districts the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, 40 years experience working in corrections He directed the Boston Gun Project, which 3 and 5), Public Information Officer for the Africa, Latin America and Asia. A former and community supervision. He previously was responsible for a more than 60 percent Chief, Internal Affairs, the Police Training columnist and senior writer for Time Magazine served as Secretary of Corrections for the reduction in youth homicide victimization Academy, the Gang Bureau and Commander and The Toronto Star, his articles and op-eds Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and for many and won the Ford Foundation Innovations in of the Information Technology Development have appeared in newspapers, magazines, years was the Executive Director of New Government award; the Herman Goldstein Unit. Her degrees include: BA in Political and academic journals around the world, York State’s paroling authority. He has been International Award for Problem Oriented Science, Metropolitan State College; MA in including The New York Times, The Wall Street a warden and has taught, written and spoken Policing, and the International Association Criminal Justice, the University of Colorado Journal, The Independent (UK), and Foreign extensively about issues of prison and parole of Chiefs of Police Webber Seavey Award. (Denver), and a Ph.D. from the University of Affairs. Mr. Handelman earned his BA from reform throughout his career. He developed the “High Point” drug market Denver. She is a graduate of the 203rd class of City College at The City University of New elimination strategy, which also won an the FBI National Academy, and the 1994 class York (CUNY), and his Masters in Public Innovations in Government Award. He helped of the African-American Leadership Institute. Administration from the Kennedy School of Ann Jacobs design and field the Justice Department’s Dr. Keesee has implemented a number of Government, Harvard University. Ann L. Jacobs joined the Prisoner Reentry Strategic Approaches to Community Safety innovative community partnership programs, Institute in May 2011 with over forty years Initiative, the Treasury Department’s Youth such as the literacy program, “The Reading of experience in the criminal justice field. For Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, and the Police;” Law-Related Education (officer and Susan Herman nearly two decades, Ms. Jacobs served as the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Drug Market teacher teams) in schools in the Denver area; Susan Herman is an internationally recognized Executive Director of the Women’s Prison Intervention Program. He is co-chair of the Neighborhood Police Officers; and the Yes spokesperson for victims of crime and a new Association (WPA) in New York. During her National Network for Safe Communities, I Can Program (Gang Awareness program vision of justice called “Parallel Justice.” time at WPA, she directed 120 staff members which includes more than 40 jurisdictions for youth transitioning from middle to high From 1997 to 2004, she served as the executive who served over 2,500 women and their and is dedicated to reducing crime, reducing school). Dr. Keesee also has an impressive director of the National Center for Victims families per year at five community sites, the incarceration, and addressing the racial conflict list of publications across several collected of Crime, developing such initiatives as the city jail, and four women’s prisons in New York associated with traditional crime policy. anthologies and peer-reviewed scientific Teen Victim Project, the Stalking Resource State. Under Ms. Jacobs’ leadership, WPA’s journals–all in the area of justice and law Center, Housing for Intimidated Victims and budget expanded from $500,000 in 1990 to enforcement. Witnesses, the National Crime Victim Bar a budget of $8.5 million at the time her of Joseph E. Krakora Association, and the Critical Choices initiative departure in 2008. Ms. Jacobs has designed and Joseph Krakora was sworn in as New Jersey for victims of September 11. Previously, she implemented innovative programs for women Public Defender on June 28, 2011. He joined David J. Krajicek managed a range of services for battered and families involved in the criminal justice the Office of the Public Defender in 1986 and David J. Krajicek is co-editor of Crime & women and children as director of the system and has also served as a consultant to served as an Assistant Public Defender and Justice News and a contributing editor of The domestic violence division of Victim Services the National Institute of Corrections and Annie Director of Capital and Special Litigation Crime Report. He writes “The Justice Story,” (now Safe Horizon) in New York City. Susan E. Casey Foundation, among others. As a from 2002 until 2010. As Director of Capital a weekly true crime feature, for the Sunday also served as director of community services recognized advocate and reformer, Ms. Jacobs Litigation, he handled numerous death penalty New York Daily News, where he formerly at The Enterprise Foundation, special counsel also founded the Women’s Justice Alliance, cases until the abolition of the death penalty worked as police bureau chief. Krajicek to the Police Commissioner of New York City, a consortium of over 100 service providers in December 2007. He supervised several cofounded Criminal Justice Journalists, a director of mediation services at the Institute in New York State. Previously, Jacobs was other parts of the agency in his capacity as an national association of reporters and editors. for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, as responsible for oversight of the city’s five Assistant Public Defender. He spent a number His books include Murder, American Style: 50 an attorney at the NOW Legal Defense and public safety agencies for the New York City of years as both a staff attorney and a manager Unforgettable True Stories About Love Gone Education Fund (now Legal Momentum), Mayor’s Office of Operations and served as in the Essex Adult Region where he developed Wrong (2010, News Ink Books), with content and as an instructor at New York University’s the Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Office of his reputation as one of the top criminal drawn from his work for the Daily News; True School of Law and NYU’s Wagner School the Criminal Justice Coordinator from 1986 defense attorneys in New Jersey. He graduated Crime: Missouri—The State’s Most Notorious of Public Service. Susan is a graduate of to 1990. Ms. Jacobs earned a Bachelor of from Princeton University in 1976 and from Criminal Cases (2011, Stackpole Books), Bryn Mawr College and the Antioch School Arts degree in Sociology from the University Cornell University Law School in 1983. and Scooped! Media Miss Real Story on Crime of Law, currently an associate professor in of Maryland, College Park and attended the While Chasing Sex, Sleaze and Celebrities the Department of Criminal Justice at Pace University of Baltimore Law School. (1999, Columbia University Press). His latest University, and the author of Parallel Justice Tracie L. Keesee true crime book is Death by Rock ‘n’ Roll for Victims of Crime. Tracie L. Keesee is is the Division Chief of (CrimeScape/Rossetta Books). His writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including crime issues. He has a Ph.D. in social ecology developing programs to combat gang violence invasion of Iraq as an embedded reporter the New York Times, Newsday, the Village from UC Irvine and taught sociology at UC and proliferation. She is currently Chief of and was recognized for his work under fire, Voice and the Manchester (U.K) Guardian. He Santa Cruz. His studies and op eds have been the Youth Development and Redirection Unit including in the dangerous and chaotic scene holds degrees from the University of Nebraska published in Crime & Public Policy, Journal of (YDR Unit) for the Nassau County DA’s in Baghdad when U.S. troops entered the city. at Omaha and Columbia University, where Adolescent Research, Scribner’s Encyclopedia Office. As Chief, she builds community Pitts also played an integral role in CBS News he spent the 1990s as a journalism professor. of Violence in America, Bloomberg View, partnerships to develop prevention and reporting other big stories, including Hurricane A native Nebraskan, Krajicek lives in the several Greenhaven Press anthologies on intervention strategies for adults and young Katrina, the war in Afghanistan, the military Catskill Mountains of upstate New York and crime and violence, the New York Times, Los adults. In 2009 she worked on the DA’s Drug buildup in Kuwait, the Florida fires, the Elian on the Alabama Gulf Coast. Angeles Times, and dozens of other journals Market Initiative (DMI) which was featured Gonzalez story, the Florida presidential election and periodicals. on ABC, Primetime Crime. She designed the recount and the mudslides in Central America. Council of Thought and Action “COTA” a Pitts was named CBS News correspondent Margaret Colgate Love weekly support group for ex-offenders that in May 1998 and was based in the Miami Margaret Love practices law in Washington, Dannel P. Malloy quickly developed into a movement of change (1998-99) and Atlanta (1999-2001) bureaus D.C., specializing in executive clemency Dannel Patrick Malloy was elected Governor of for ex-offenders and the community. before moving to New York in January 2001. and restoration of rights, and sentencing Connecticut in 2010, the first governor to have Before that, Pitts was a correspondent for and corrections policy. She has written and been elected under the state’s clean elections CBS NEWSPATH, the 24-hour affiliate news lectured widely on the collateral consequences program. The youngest of eight children, he Khalil Gibran Muhammad service of CBS News, based in Washington, of a criminal conviction, and is co-author of a struggled to overcome learning and physical Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ph.D. is Director D.C. (1997-98). forthcoming treatise Collateral Consequences disabilities, eventually gaining the skills he of the Schomburg Center For Research in of Criminal Conviction: Law, Policy and needed to go on to graduate Magna Cum Laude Black Culture and a former associate professor Practice (NACDL/West 2012). Ms. Love from Boston College and continue on to Boston of history at Indiana University. In late 2010 Connie Rice chaired the drafting committee for the ABA College Law School. Gov. Malloy became a he was selected to take over the helm of the Connie Rice, a leading civil rights attorney and Standards on Collateral Sanctions and prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York, serving historic Schomburg Center, which is currently co-founder of the Advancement Project in Los Discretionary Disqualification of Convicted for four years as an Assistant District Attorney celebrating its 85th year. Dr. Muhammad, a Angeles, is renowned for her unconventional Persons, and now directs the NIJ-funded where he won 22 convictions in 23 felony cases- native of Chicago’s South Side, is an award- approaches to tackling problems of inequity ABA collateral consequences compilation -four of them homicides. Returning home to winning author. His book The Condemnation and exclusion. In her legal work, Connie has effort. She participated in drafting the ABA Stamford, he served on the Boards of Finance of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making led multi-racial coalitions of lawyers and amicus brief in Padilla v. Kentucky and has and Education before running for Mayor and of Modern Urban America, published by clients to win more than $10 billion in damages written several articles on issues raised by winning in a landslide victory in 1995. He Harvard University Press, won the 2011 John and policy changes, through traditional class the Padilla decision. From 2005 to 2009 she went on to become Stamford’s longest serving Hope Franklin Best Book award in American action civil rights cases redressing police directed the work of the ABA Commission Mayor, serving for 14 years from 1995-2009. Studies. He is now working on his second misconduct, race and sex discrimination on Effective Criminal Sanctions, which Under his leadership, Stamford underwent a book, Disappearing Acts: The End of White and unfair public policy in transportation, produced ABA policy on access to and use drastic transformation and became one of the Criminality in the Age of Jim Crow. He was probation and public housing. At the invitation of criminal records, and a comprehensive country’s top ten most livable cities, according recently appointed to the Editorial Board of of then-LAPD Chief William Bratton, Connie catalogue of federal collateral consequences. to Forbes magazine. Gov. Malloy is a former Transition Magazine, published by the W.E.B. investigated the biggest police corruption (http://www.abanet.org/cecs/internalexile. trustee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Dr. scandal in Los Angeles history and obtained pdf). Before establishing her private practice former President of the Connecticut Council Muhammad received his Ph.D. in American the commitment of the Chief to reform LAPD’s in 1998, Ms. Love served in the U.S. Justice of Municipalities, and a former member of the History from Rutgers University in 2004, training and incentives system through an Department from 1978-1997, including as Stamford Cultural Development Organization. specializing in 20th-century U.S. and African- internal commission that she co-chairs. U.S. Pardon Attorney (1990-1997). Ms. Love American history, and spent two years as an Connie also conducted a landmark 18-month received her law degree from Yale, and has Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the assessment of the City of Los Angeles’ anti- a Masters Degree in Medieval History from Risco Mention-Lewis Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. gang programs and drew the blueprint to the University of Pennsylvania. She is an Risco Mention-Lewis, Assistant District reduce gang violence through a regional, occasional commentator for The Crime Report. Attorney in the Nassau County (NY) District multi-jurisdictional comprehensive strategy Attorney’s Office, received a BA degree Bryon Pitts to right the balance between suppression and in Criminal Justice and History from the Byron Pitts was named a contributor to “60 prevention. In 2006, Los Angeles Times West Mike Males University of Delaware and received a Juris Minutes” and chief national correspondent Magazine named Connie one of the 100 most Mike Males is senior researcher at the Center on Doctorate from Hofstra University School for “The CBS Evening News with Katie powerful people in Southern California, and Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco, of Law. She has been an Assistant DA for Couric” in January 2009. He had been a California Law Business twice named her and content director of YouthFacts.org. His the past 17 years. Early in her career, she national correspondent since February 2006. one of the top 10 most influential lawyers in latest book is Teenage Sex and Pregnancy: developed the first Youth Part for Nassau One of CBS News’ lead reporters during the California. Connie serves on the boards of the Modern Myths, Unsexy Realities (Praeger, County to address the needs of the 21-year- Sept. 11 attacks, Pitts won a national Emmy Public Policy Institute of California and public 2010), which, like his other four books on old and younger defendants. She has worked award for his coverage. Later he was tapped radio station KPCC. youth issues, includes discussion of youth and in various communities in Nassau County to be a war correspondent, reporting on the Jeffrey Rosen and, AM New York, among others. Prior to her Jeremy Travis Director of the New York City Commission on Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at The appointment, Ms. Tabachnick produced a live Jeremy Travis is President of John Jay College Human Rights; Deputy Assistant Director for George Washington University and the legal two-hour travel talk show to 136 stations, and of Criminal Justice. Since his appointment in Law Enforcement Services in the Office of the affairs editor of The New Republic. His has accumulated wide experience in website 2004, President Travis has led a transformation Mayor of New York City; and Assistant Director most recent book is The Supreme Court: management and broadcasting. She is a of John Jay College, increasing baccalaureate of the New York City Civilian Complaint The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined graduate of the Columbia University Graduate freshman enrollment by 40%, expanding full Review Board. Mr. Tucker began his career America. He also is the author of The Most School of Journalism, and the CUNY BA time faculty from 338 to 449, supporting the with the New York City Police Department Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and Program at Baruch College, where she won the development of liberal arts majors and tripling in 1969 and, prior to being assigned as beat The Unwanted Gaze. Rosen is a graduate of Elyse Brows Community Service Scholarship, external funding for faculty research. From cop, was one of a select group of new precinct Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford awarded for academic merit and community 2008 to 2009, President Travis served as Chair service officers educated by medical and other University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; service. She started her journalism career as of the Task Force on Transforming Juvenile substance abuse experts to conduct innovative and Yale Law School. Professor Rosen’s essays an intern for United Press International at the Justice, appointed by New York Governor drug prevention and education programs in and commentaries have appeared in the New UN, where she also worked as a press officer David A. Paterson. From 1994-2000, Travis city schools and colleges. Mr. Tucker received York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, covering the 2006 General Assembly. Ms. directed the National Institute of Justice. his BS in Criminal Justice from the John Jay on National Public Radio, and in The New Tabachnick has also worked at the grassroots Nominated by President Clinton, Travis College of Criminal Justice, City University Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The level of criminal justice, including programs reinvigorated the agency and established major of New York, and his JD from the Fordham Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best in Brooklyn, N.Y., aimed at facilitating the re- initiatives to assess crime trends, evaluate University School of Law. magazine journalists in America and the L.A. entry of ex-offenders back into the workforce. federal anti-crime efforts, advance forensic Times called him, “the nation’s most widely She is a member of Society of Professional sciences, and bolster research on counter- read and influential legal commentator.” Journalists, Newswomen’s Club of New York terrorism strategies. He is the author of But Marie Verzulli and Journalism and Women’s Symposium— They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges Marie Verzulli is the victim/survivor advocate where she was awarded a 2005 scholarship as of Prisoner Reentry, co-editor (with Christy for New Yorkers for Alternatives to the Death Sheila Rule a promising journalist. Visher) of Prisoner Reentry and Crime in Penalty. Verzulli’s work focuses on filling the In 1991, Sheila left behind a life in which America, and co-editor (with Michelle Waul) gaps in services and on empowering victims she roamed Africa and Europe as a foreign of Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact to advocate for programs that address the correspondent for The New York Times to work Ray Tebout of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, root causes of crime and violence. Verzulli with America’s incarcerated. As a volunteer Ray Tebout is Director of Counseling at Families, and Communities. He earned a JD, currently serves on the Restorative Justice with the prison ministry at the Riverside The College Initiative (CI) in New York, cum laude, from the New York University Commission of the Albany Roman Catholic Church in New York, she met Joseph Robinson, which assists in transitioning people from School of Law, and an MPA from the New Diocese, Murder Victims’ Families For Human who was incarcerated at Sullivan Correctional the criminal justice system to higher York University Wagner Graduate School of Rights Executive Board Member, Center for Facility. A long correspondence and a series of education. An experienced criminal justice Public Service. He received a BA, cum laude, Community Justice Board Member, and is meetings where the two discovered common transitions specialist, who provides a wide in American Studies from Yale College. on the advisory committee of the downstate ground and a commitment to bettering society, range of technical assistance, and training parole reform and prison re-entry project. developed into marriage. Sheila and Joe to organizations working with forensic and Verzulli is the founder and director of Family founded the Think Outside the Cell Foundation substance abuse populations, he is dedicated Benjamin B. Tucker and Friends of Homicide Victims. In January to end the stigma of incarceration and to help to helping people use their strengths to Benjamin B. Tucker became Deputy Director ’08, Verzulli and her mother participated in the incarcerated, the formerly incarcerated and overcome their challenges so they can of State, Local and Tribal Affairs for the Office a victim-offender dialogue with her sister their loved ones through literacy, education, achieve their personal and professional of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Cathy’s killer. She dedicates her work to personal development and the removal of goals. Prior to working with CI he managed in 2010, where he oversees ONDCP’s High Cathy’s memory, in the belief that ethical, societal barriers to the American Dream. the Volunteer and Work Readiness programs Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program, non-violent solutions represent our best hope When the barriers are removed, those who live at The Fortune Society (a prisoner reentry Drug-Free Communities , National Youth of reducing violent crime. in the long shadow of prison can create their organization). Ray’s practice areas include HR Anti- Drug Media Campaign, and Counter own opportunities. management, program planning, professional Drug Technology Assessment Center. He development, volunteer management and has 40 years of experience in the fields of performance improvement planning. Ray is law enforcement and criminal justice. Prior Cara Tabachnick currently studying counseling psychology and to joining ONDCP, Mr. Tucker served as a Cara Tabachnick was appointed Associate economics at John Jay College of Criminal professor of criminal justice at Pace University. Director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice and is certified in human resources, He served as Chief Executive for School Justice in March, 2008. She is Managing addiction counseling and strength-based Safety and Planning at the New York City Editor of The Crime Report. As a police human service practices. Department of Education; Deputy Director for and crime reporter, she has freelanced for Operations at the U.S. Department of Justice, Newsday in New York City and Long Island, Office of Community Oriented Policing and has written for Newsweek, Scientific Services; Chief of Operations in Office of American online, the New York Post, UPI, The Manhattan Borough President; Executive vanguard of the reentry movement. He and Rights Project’s Molly Ivins “Give ‘Em Hell” his wife Brenda (who holds a master’s degree award. She was recently named winner of the in Social Work) are co-publishers of Reentry 2012 Media Award from the Texas Coalition to Advocate, a national magazine that goes into Abolish the Death Penalty for her “consistent, various prisons, libraries, county jails, halfway in-depth and fair treatment” of capital houses and prison ministries around the United punishment issues in Texas. States. He also writes periodic commentaries for The Crime Report. Mansfield resides in the Hough neighborhood of his hometown of Cleveland, OH where he enjoys tending the grapes on his inner-city, three-quarter acre Vineyards of Château Hough.

Ted Gest Ted Gest is President of Criminal Justice Journalists (CJJ), Contributing Editor of The John Jay Prize Jurors Crime Report, and a 2011 John Jay Prize juror. He co-founded CJJ, the nation’s only organization of working journalists covering criminal justice, in 1997. A veteran journalist, Alexa Capeloto U.S., and from 1999 through 2001, Domanick he began his career at the St. Louis Post- Alexa Capeloto is Assistant Professor of hosted a twice-weekly radio show on news Dispatch (his native city) and went on to cover Journalism, John Jay College of Criminal and current affairs on radio station KPFK- the White House, Justice Department, Supreme Justice and a 2011 John Jay Prize juror. FM (Pacifica Radio Network). He teaches Court, and legal/justice news during 23 years Capeloto was a reporter and editor at the journalism at the School of Journalism of at U.S. News & World Report. A coordinator Detroit Free Press until joining the San Diego USC Annenberg’s School for Communication of the Council of National Journalism Union-Tribune as East County bureau chief and continues to freelance. Domanick has Organizations from 2003-2006, Mr. Gest has in 2005. In 2007, she was named the paper’s graduate degrees in social science from Hunter been cited by the National Council on Crime enterprise editor, overseeing explanatory, College, CUNY; education and sociology and Delinquency, and won an American trend and other enterprise stories. Before from Columbia University and broadcast Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. He is arriving at John Jay in 2009, she was an journalism from the USC Annenberg School the author of Crime and Politics (Oxford adjunct instructor of journalism at National of Journalism. He is based in Los Angeles, University Press: 2001), and was named University, a San Diego-based college aimed at California. Coordinator of the Council of Presidents of mid-career students. Capeloto, who earned her National Journalism Organizations in 2003. master’s degree in journalism from Columbia Based in Washington, D.C., Gest is a graduate University in 2000, also serves as faculty Mansfield Frazier of Oberlin College and the Graduate School of adviser for John Jay’s student newspaper, The Mansfield Frazier began writing seriously Journalism at Columbia University. John Jay Sentinel (www.johnjaysentinel.com). at age 50 while serving a sentence in federal prison for manufacturing counterfeit credit cards, a nefarious career he’d pursued for close Jordan Smith Joe Domanick to 30 years. During his last incarceration he Jordan Smith is an award-winning investigative Joe Domanick, an award-winning investigative wrote From Behind the Wall, Commentary on reporter for the Austin Chronicle, in Austin, journalist and author, is Associate Director of Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass. Texas, where she writes primarily about the CMCJ and West Coast Bureau Chief of The hardback was published the same month criminal justice issues. Her work has also The Crime Report. His latest book is Cruel he was released from prison for the final time, appeared online in The Crime Report, Salon, Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in April of 1995. Within a month of regaining and The Nation. She was the recipient of the in America’s Golden State. His previous book, his liberty he began work as an associate editor 2010 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting To Protect and Serve: The LAPD’s Century of a local newsmagazine. He went on to hold award given by John Jay College of Criminal of War in the City of Dreams, won the 1995 the position of editor at a number of urban Justice in association with the Harry Frank Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Non-Fiction weeklies, and his writing currently is featured Guggenheim Association. She has also been a Book. Domanick has contributed articles and nationally on The Daily Beast, among other runner up for the Casey Medal for Meritorious op eds to magazines and newspapers across the outlets. For the last decade he has been in the Journalism and was awarded the Texas Civil Taylor Dungjen High, and the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Taylor Dungjen, a 2010 graduate of the She also worked as a political reporter for the University of Cincinnati, is the crime reporter Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and covered at The Blade in Toledo, Ohio. Two out-of-state national and foreign news at the Denver internships helped prepared Taylor for life Post, reporting from Afghanistan, Iraq and after college. She first was a fashion columnist Somalia, among others. In June, she attended at Lee Magazine in Auburn, Ala., a publication the Journalist Law School program at Loyola she still freelances for. The second was at The Law School in Los Angeles. Florio grew up on Oregonian, for the How We Live department. a wildlife refuge in Delaware and graduated She was hired as the crime reporter at The with a degree in English, with an emphasis in Morning Journal in Lorain, Ohio, eight weeks journalism, from the University of Delaware. before graduating. After eight months in Lorain, Taylor was hired by The Blade. Since arriving in the Glass City, Taylor has covered Gregory Gilderman 2012 John Jay the mass-murder/suicide of a young family, the Gregory Gilderman is a writer and video shooting death of a Sandusky police officer, journalist at The Daily Beast, a New York- one of the most violent summers in Toledo’s based news website with an audience of five Reporting Fellows history, and has immersed herself in the city’s million people. He worked in broadcast, print, growing gang culture. and online journalism. Past projects include an 8,500-word cover story for Philadelphia magazine on handgun violence that helped Mike Carter perfected his craft in every neighborhood Elizabeth Elliott earn the magazine a National Magazine Award Mike Carter is a 33-year veteran journalist across the five boroughs, from the back alleys Elizabeth Elliott is a freelance writer from nomination, reporting and shooting for a PBS working as the federal courts/legal affairs of Brooklyn to the posh avenues of the Upper Omaha, Nebraska. She has a degree in Frontline special on Hurricane Katrina, and a reporter at The Seattle Times. Carter, 57, has East Side, reporting on every facet of crime Journalism and Music from Creighton short documentary and series of written reports been at the Times since 1999. Before that, he along with the occasional salacious celebrity University and has a Certificate in Paralegal on inner-city heroin use for The Daily Beast. spent 10 years as a statehouse and regional scandal. Studies from the College of Saint Mary. She In 2006, he created the video content unit for reporter for The Associated Press in Salt Lake has written articles for several publications, Philly.com, the website for the Philadelphia City. Carter’s pre-9/11 reporting on would- including Busted Halo, Our Sunday Visitor, Inquirer and Daily News. Gilderman is a be Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressam led to Hannah Dreier America Magazine, through the guidance graduate of the Columbia University Graduate the Times’ series, The Terrorist Within, which Dreier covers politics and crime for The of James Martin, S.J., Ministry & Liturgy School of Journalism, where he has been an was a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Contra Costa Times in Richmond, a town Magazine, the Associated Press, B2B adjunct faculty member since 2009. In 2007, investigative reporting in 2002. Carter is the that perennially ranks among the nation’s Magazine, Omaha Daily Record, Jesuit he was a finalist for the Livingston Award, a senior reporter on the team that spearheaded leaders in per-capita homicide rate. Dreier Journeys magazine, Omaha Catholic Voice, prize that recognizes journalists under 35. The Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of grew up with a single mother in a low- the Sentinel in Portland, Oregon and the the slayings of four Lakewood, WA, police in income part of San Francisco. A desire to Northwest Progress in Seattle, Washington. 2010. An avid skier and outdoorsman, Carter see more nuance and context in the coverage An article Elliott published in the Sentinel Brandi Grissom lives in Seattle with his wife, two teenage of her community led to a job writing media was picked up by the Catholic News Service Grissom has covered criminal justice for daughters and a stepson. criticism for the DC-based watchdog Media and published elsewhere. In addition to many The Texas Tribune since 2009. Her goal is to Matters. From there, she went to work for Catholic publications, she has written articles examine how Texas policies affect the criminal The Washington Independent (an online for New Criminologist and The Correctional justice system. In the last two years, Grissom Perry Chiaramonte daily). Dreier loved the wonkiness of beltway Psychologist. focused much of her work on prison conditions Perry Chiaramonte is currently a reporter with reporting, but ultimately missed the sense of and on potential wrongful conviction cases. FoxNews.com where he covers a wide range connection to a place that she’d enjoyed as a Last year, Grissom investigated a county jail of issues focusing on crime/law-enforcement, student journalist at Wesleyan University. In Gwen Florio where the inmate death rate was unusually national interest and technology stories. He 2010, she won four state and local journalism Gwen Florio covers criminal justice at the high and discovered the staff turnover rate spent the past decade at The New York Post awards. Her work has also appeared in the Missoulian, a 30,000-circulation newspaper in was more than 40 percent per year. That story where he cut his teeth as a crime reporter in Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Orlando western Montana. She started working in the prompted lawmakers to force county jails the Post’s Infamous NYPD bureau (AKA- The Sentinel, Vancouver Sun and Agence France- West as a Denver-based national staffer for the statewide to monitor staff turnover to determine Shack). Armed with the skills he learned at the Presse. Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1990s, covering which facilities should be considered “at risk.” Shack, Chiaramonte eventually moved on to among other things the trials of Oklahoma Currently, she is following the wrongful field reporting as a “shoe-leather reporter” on City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry conviction case of Michael Morton, who was the frenetic streets of New York City. He further Nichols, the school shooting at Columbine sentenced to life in prison for his wife’s murder in 1986. DNA testing conducted this year led taught investigative reporting in Paraguay in moving to Delaware as state government Vette City Roller Derby team. When she turns to his exoneration. 1999 and 2000. Since then, he also has trained reporter before joining the Democrat in off the police scanner, her free time includes journalists in investigative reporting in 19 other 2004. Jennifer’s wide-ranging work on playing piano and guitar, cooking and fiction countries on behalf of the International Center issues including the environment, education writing. She is originally from Newark, Ohio. Auditi Guha for Journalists and other media organizations. and criminal justice has been recognized by Guha is an award-winning crime reporter He is the author of In Sam We Trust: The state and national awards. Her most recent for the Somerville Journal and Cambridge Untold Story of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, the project, published in September, exposed Carla Zanoni Chronicle with the drive and passion to World’s Most Powerful Retailer, Times Books, the undercount of domestic violence-related Carla Zanoni is a reporter/producer at pursue the stories important to residents’ every 1998. He has received four reporting awards homicides, the often-overlooked warning DNAinfo.com. Before she came to DNAinfo, day lives. In nearly a decade of working in from the National Newspaper Association, signs of such killings and the lasting impact Carla created and ran The Streets Where We Massachusetts, Guha has reported on the quiet among many others. on families. In the wake of the project, local Live, a blog dedicated to northern Manhattan, double life of a family of Russian spies in law enforcement officials and social service which became a must-read for residents. Born Cambridge in the years before federal agents agencies formed a domestic violence fatality in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in arrested them, a convicted Cambridge criminal Sean O’Sullivan review team to examine cases with an eye New Jersey, Carla got her start as a reporter with connections to the mayor who was hired Sean O’Sullivan covers the courts for The toward saving lives. at the Columbia Spectator. She went on to the at a local school and a Brighton sex offender News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware. He is Amsterdam News, where she was nominated who started a neighborhood watch group at a native of Buffalo, New York and received his for an award for a series on AIDS/HIV in the a playground. Her hard-hitting investigative bachelor’s degree from the State University of Jordan Michael Smith African-American community. After getting work has led to more government transparency New York at Buffalo with a double major in Jordan Michael Smith is a freelance writer in her master’s in journalism at Columbia School as well as death threats from those exposed for English and Media Study. After freelancing for Washington, D.C. His writing has appeared of Journalism, she worked as a features wrongdoing. several magazines, including Spy Magazine in in the Washington Post, New York Times, editor for Manhattan Media’s community New York, Punch Magazine in London and Boston Globe, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, newspapers. She won two New York Press The Washington Monthly in Washington, D.C., The Atlantic, The New Republic, Slate, Salon, Association awards for a series on street John Howell O’Sullivan started working for newspapers In These Times, Alternet, Huffington Post, prostitution and was part of a team that won John Howell, a veteran journalist with a in 1992. He started at the weekly Maryland World Politics Review, Dissent, World Affairs a NYPA award for reporting on religion. She reputation for tenacious reporting, was Times-Press in Ocean City, Md. and the next Journal, and many other publications. A has also written for the New York Times, City described by colleagues as an ideal candidate year began his daily career at The Daily Times member of the National Book Critics Circle, Hall, New York Family, Avenue, Corduroy for a fellowship to the 2012 H.F. Guggenheim in Salisbury, Md. He also worked for The he regularly reviews books for the Christian magazine, the Manhattan Times and the Bronx Conference on Crime in America. Howell, Daily Record in New Jersey before joining The Science Monitor and the Columbia Journalism Free Press. an independent reporter covering police News Journal in 1998. O’Sullivan has been Review. Born in Toronto, Canada, Mr. Smith and courts in Connecticut, has been a keen covering the courts full-time for The News holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/ observer of human events in a 32-year career, Journal for seven years. During his career in English from the University of Western including 17 years at The Hartford Courant. newspapers, his work has been recognized Ontario, where he was awarded the Gold Howell, a New Jersey native who lives in West by a number of journalism organizations Medal for the highest graduating average in Hartford, Conn., consistently leads criminal including the Associated Press in its annual his program. He also holds a Master of Arts justice coverage in a highly competitive journalism contest, the Maryland-Delaware- in Political Science from Carleton University market. His strict attention to detail, diligence D.C. Press Association, The Maryland Society in Ottawa. and compassion repeatedly reward readers of Professional Journalists and the New Jersey with thorough accounts of complex stories. Press Association. O’Sullivan is married with Howell, who began in The Star-Ledger sports one daughter and lives with his family in Susan Tebben department, is a seasoned interviewer who also Wilmington, Delaware. Susan Tebben is a reporter for the Glasgow wrote a national media column for many years. Daily Times in Glasgow, Kentucky, where for the past three years, she has covered Jennifer Portman entertainment, general news, breaking news, Bob Ortega Jennifer Portman is a senior projects writer courts and police. She holds a bachelor’s Bob Ortega is a senior reporter at the Arizona at the Tallahassee Democrat. A Los Angeles degree from the E.W. Scripps School of Republic. He has been writing extensively native and graduate of Sarah Lawrence Journalism at Ohio University. She started out about the state’s prison system and issues College, Jennifer has worked as a daily with the dream of becoming a music critic but related to prison privatization, sentencing newspaper reporter since earning a master’s working in community journalism and the law reform and prison security. He previously degree in 1995 from Northwestern University’s enforcement beat has given her new passions. reported for The Wall Street Journal and the Medill School of Journalism. She began her Her favorite experiences as a journalist so far Seattle Times, among other publications. As reporting career in Springfield, Mo., as a local have been searching out marijuana fields with a Knight International Journalism Fellow, he government reporter and editorial writer, the Kentucky State Police and training with the University, with a thesis on the Freedom Aaronson was a reporter and editor for The of Information Act. He is the author of two Commercial Appeal in Memphis, where winning articles and writers books, both from Syracuse University Press. his stories ranged from local government His first,The Forestport Breaks: A Nineteenth- investigations to reporting in Asia, Africa and Century Conspiracy Along the Black River South America. He was also formerly a staff Single Story Category: Canal was published in 2004. His second, writer for Village Voice Media’s newspapers in Radical Chapters: Roy Kepler and the Front Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Trevor Aaronson, Mother Jones magazine Lines of Peace, Protest and the Paperback “The Informants” Revolution will come out in the fall of 2012. Since 2002, he has served as a volunteer Kelly Virella Series Category: firefighter/EMT in Arlington County, Virginia. Kelly Virella is an award-winning magazine writer and editor turned new media Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel entrepreneur. She is a 2011 news entrepreneur “Both Sides of the Law” Marisa Taylor fellow with the Ford Foundation’s New U Marisa Taylor, an investigative reporter in the program. She has worked as a reporter or RUNNERS-UP: Waash DC bureau of McClatchy Newspapers, editor in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, has more than 15 years of daily newspaper and New York, specializing in investigative (single) Kelly Virella, City Limits magazine experience in Washington, California, and literary journalism during the past five “Behind Bars: Love, Sex, Rape and New York’s Women Prisoners” Virginia, Texas and Mexico. At the time of years, most recently at City Limits magazine. the “Military Injustice” series, she covered the Her investigative journalism has impacted (series) Michael Doyle, Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers Justice Department for McClatchy. She has the policies of the Illinois Attorney General’s “Military Injustice” covered federal courts and agencies, crime and Office, the Illinois Department of Public Health politics. Taylor started her career as a reporter and the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. In July, in Mexico City and speaks Spanish. Taylor she founded the online magazine Dominion of was part of a team of McClatchy reporters that New York, the international magazine of black won the National Press Club’s 2011 Edwin M. intellectual swagger. With a monthly audience To Read the Winning Articles: http://bit.ly/z82JwP Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence of 55,000 unique visitors, the five-month-old for a series on Afghanistan. The series detailed magazine publishes original reporting about how corruption and mismanagement marred innovative thinkers, artists and leaders and U.S. efforts to rebuild Afghanistan. In 2008, blogging about current events. Its audience Prize Winners Bios Taylor and two other McClatchy reporters is racially diverse, consisting of people who won a Scripps Howard’s Raymond Clapper love powerful ideas and smart, compelling Memorial Award for exposing the Bush journalism about the African diaspora. administration’s politicization of the Justice former Yugoslavia as a Dart Center Ochberg Department. Series: Fellow. She has worked at the Indianapolis Gina Barton Star, the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune and the Gina Barton is the Milwaukee Journal Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. Barton Sentinel’s law enforcement investigative holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern Single: reporter. Her work on the newspaper’s “Fatal University and a master’s degree from Indiana University-South Bend. Care” investigation, into the deaths of children Trevor Aaronson in the care of the child welfare system, won Trevor Aaronson is associate director and co- recognition in several national contests, founder of the Florida Center for Investigative Michael Doyle including a 2010 Casey Medal for Meritorious Reporting, a nonprofit journalism organization Michael Doyle covers California and legal Journalism. She was part of a team that that produces reporting about Florida and Latin affairs in the Washington bureau of McClatchy won a 2009 IRE Award for breaking news America in English and Spanish. Aaronson newspapers. He is also an adjunct lecturer investigations for work examining holes in wrote the “The Informants” as a 2010-2011 in journalism at The George Washington the state’s DNA database. Her narrative series investigative reporting fellow at the University University. He is a graduate of Oberlin College “Fatal Identity” was followed by charges of California, Berkeley, and he is expanding and he earned a master of studies in law from against a longtime murder suspect. Her book the story into the forthcoming book The Yale Law School, where he was a Knight on the case was published in September 2008 Terror Factory: Informants, Entrapment and Journalism Fellow. He earned a master’s and featured on MSNBC. In 2000, Barton the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism in government from The Johns Hopkins spent five weeks reporting in Rwanda and the (Ig Publishing, January 2013). 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