15TH ANNUAL JOHN JAY HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM SYMPOSIUM ON CRIME IN AMERICA Is America Ready for Prison Reform?

FEBRUARY 20-21, 2020 JOHN JAY COLLEGE 524 WEST 59TH STREET NEW YORK CITY AGENDA

DAY 1: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 1:30pm-2:30pm All conference panels except where noted take place in SESSION 3 the Moot Court, 6th floor, John Jay New Building WHO’S IN PRISON & WHY? 8:30-9:00am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Alfred Blumstein, J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research, Carnegie Journalists, Guests, Speakers Mellon University 9:00am-9:15am Richard Rosenfeld, Founders Professor of Criminology WELCOME and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis Dan Wilhelm, President, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Thaddeus Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University Stephen Handelman, Director, Center on Media Crime and Justice at John Jay College (CMCJ) Moderator: Stephen Handelman, Director CMCJ

9:15am-10:15am 2:30pm-4:00pm OPENING KEYNOTE: SESSION 4 Leann Bertsch, Director, North Dakota Department of REIMAGINING CONFINEMENT: Corrections and Rehabilitation WHAT SHOULD A 21ST CENTURY PRISON LOOK LIKE? 10:15am-11:00am Michele Deitch, Senior Lecturer, LBJ School of Public SESSION 1 Affairs, University of Texas-Austin DISCUSSION OF KEYNOTE: Marirosa Lamas, Superintendent, Chester State CAN WE CHANGE THE CULTURE Correctional Institution, Pennsylvania Department OF INCARCERATION? of Corrections Stanley Richards, Vice President, Fortune Society Jeffrey Mansfield,Design Director, Mass Design Group/Restorative Justice Design Lab Nicholas Turner, President, Vera Institute of Justice Moderator: Mark Obbie, Contributing Editor, Discussant: Stephen Handelman, Director, Center on The Crime Report Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ) 4:00pm-4:15pm 11:00am-11:15am BREAK BREAK 4:15pm-6:00pm 11:15am-12pm SESSION 5 SESSION 2 INCARCERATION AND INNOVATION: IS AMERICA READY FOR REFORM? CREATING “HUMANE” PRISONS Albert Reed Jr., Social justice commentator, poet, Brian Dawe, National Director, COPTSD156 Coalition former “lifer” Scott Erfe, District Administrator, Connecticut Department Jhody Polk, Founder, Florida Council for Incarcerated of Correction; former director TRUE pilot project Women and Girls Nancy La Vigne, Vice President for Justice Policy, Moderator: Katti Gray, Contributing Editor, Urban Institute The Crime Report Jeremiah Mosteller, Policy Counsel, Due 12:00pm-1:00pm LUNCH Process Institute Invitation only. 9TH floor conference room 9.64 John Jay Moderator: Sebastian Johnson, Criminal Justice Manager, Arnold Ventures CONVERSATION: LIFE AFTER PRISON Jeremiah Bourgeois, Columnist, The Crime Report DAY 2: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 2:00pm-3:00pm SESSION 8 8:30-9:00am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST THE FALLIBLE DETECTIVE CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON 9:00am-10:30am WRONGFUL ARRESTS AND SESSION 6 POLICE MISCONDUCT REENTRY READY? Kim Rossmo, Director, Center for Geospatial Intelligence THE POLITICS OF REFORM and Investigation, Texas State University President Pro Tem, New York Sen. Brian Benjamin, Associate Professor, Department of Law, State Senate Peter Moskos, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration, Lamont Carey, Acting Executive Director, Mayor’s Office John Jay College on Returning Citizen Affairs, Washington, DC Moderator: John Hollway, Director, Quattrone Center for Rhett Covington, Assistant Secretary, Louisiana the Fair Administration of Justice Department of Public Safety and Corrections Vikrant Reddy, Senior Research Fellow, Charles 3:00pm-4:00pm Koch Institute REPORTERS’ NETWORKING Moderator: Lawrence Bartley, Editor “News Inside” SESSIONS The Marshall Project QUATTRONE FELLOWS 10:30am-10:45am Room 3.61 New Building BREAK GUGGENHEIM FELLOWS Moot Court, 6th Floor New Building 10:45am-12:30pm Presentation of updated SESSION 7 Journalists’ Guide to Covering Corrections. TRANSFORMING THE CULTURE Ted Gest, President, Criminal Justice Journalists OF COMMUNITY SUPERVISION 4:00pm-5:00pm Barbara Broderick, Former Chief Probation Officer, Maricopa County, Arizona SESSION 9 STORY LAB Tara Cobbins, Leader, Katal Center, Albany NY THE MEDIA AND FACIAL C. West Huddleston, Vice President for Business Development, Nexus/SCRAM Systems RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY Clare Garvie, Fellow, Georgetown University Center Vincent Schiraldi, Co-Founder, Justice Lab, on Privacy and Technology Columbia University Moderator: Michael Williams, Senior Manager for Adult 5:00pm-5:30pm Policy and Research, Pew Public Safety Performance Project FINAL WRAP 12:30pm-2:00pm LUNCHEON KEYNOTE Invitation only. 9TH floor conference room 9.64 John Jay The Hon. James McGreevey, Chair, New Jersey Reentry Commission

Speakers / Panelists

KEYNOTES Leann K. Bertsch After multiple attempts to gain parole based on Leann K. Bertsch has served as the Director of Supreme Court rulings barring juvenile LWOP the North Dakota Department of Corrections sentences, Jeremiah was released in October and Rehabilitation since July 2005. She was 2019, and is currently working as a paralegal President of the Association of State Correctional and studying for a degree in Washington State, Administrator from 2014 through 2018, and was where he lives with his fiancée. A collection of awarded the Tom Clements Award for Innovation his prison writings, The Extraordinary Ordinary in Corrections by her peers in 2016. Prior to serv- Prisoner: Essays From Inside America’s Carcer- ing as Director, Bertsch was the Commissioner al State, was published as an E-book in February. of the North Dakota Department of Labor. Be- fore entering state government, Bertsch worked The Hon. James McGreevey as a state court prosecutor and as a legal aid at- Jim McGreevey, former governor of New Jersey torney. As North Dakota’s prison chief, Bertsch (2002-2004), is currently Chairman of the New has worked to transform the state’s corrections Jersey Reentry Corporation (NJRC), which pro- system from one that is focused on punishment, vides critically needed services to assist persons monitoring and compliance to a system that is fo- returning from incarceration to successfully re- cused on repairing the harm that crime causes for integrate into society. Those services include the individuals, families and communities. Bertsch integration of addiction treatment, sober housing, serves on the Board of International Corrections employment and training, identification and legal and Prison Association, the Advisory Board of services, and linkage to Medicaid and medical the Prison Fellowship Warden’s Exchange, and and behavioral healthcare for formerly incar- the Executive Committee of the Association of cerated persons. Before working at the NJRC, Women Executives in Corrections. Jim was Executive Director of the Jersey City Employment and Training Program (JCETP), Jeremiah Bourgeois overseeing programs targeted in support of em- Jeremiah Bourgeois served over 27 years in ployment training for single mothers, displaced Washington State prisons after a conviction for workers, the historically disadvantaged, court a murder committed at the age of 14, in 1992, involved, and unemployed persons. Having pur- and sentenced to Life Without Parole. While in sued seminary education and training at the Gen- prison Jeremiah earned his GED, an information eral Theological Seminary, Jim served his field technology certificate from Edmonds Commu- education working with formerly incarcerated nity College and his Bachelor’s Degree, magna women and men at Exodus Transitional Ministry cum laude. At the same time he began publish- in Harlem, New York City. He completed his pas- ing a blog and in academic journals. He was a toral care at the former Cabrini hospice and long- member of the prisoner advisory committee for term healthcare center. Before he was elected the the University Beyond Bars, and a leader in the state’s 52nd governor, he served as a state senator, Concerned Lifers Association. In 2016, he be- state assemblyman, and over ten years as mayor came a regular columnist for The Crime Report. of Woodbridge, one of New Jersey’s largest mu- nicipalities. He was Executive Director of the NJ Barbara Broderick State Parole Board and Assistant Prosecutor in Barbara Broderick is former chief probation of- Middlesex County. McGreevey holds a law de- ficer for Maricopa County, Arizona, and co-chair gree from Georgetown University, a Master’s of of Executives Transforming Probation and Parole Education from Harvard University, and a Mas- (EXiT). She has devoted more than 30 years to ter’s of Divinity from the General Theological the criminal justice system. She became chief Seminary. probation officer for Maricopa County in De- cember 2000 and from June 2005 to August 2006 also served as Interim Chief Juvenile probation SPEAKERS/MODERATORS Officer. Prior to that, she was state director of the Adult Probation Office for the Arizona Supreme Lawrence Bartley Court for five years, assisting local jurisdictions (See Lawrence’s full bio in the Fellows section) and treatment providers. Named as the nation’s top probation executive by the National Asso- Brian A. Benjamin ciation of Probation Executives for her sustained Brian A. Benjamin, a Democrat, was elected New and distinguished service, she earlier served as York State Senator for District 30, which encom- New York State Director of Probation and Cor- passes Harlem, East Harlem, and the Upper West rectional Alternatives. She earned her B.A. from Side in 2017. A leader of efforts to reform New Niagara University and her masters at the School York’s corrections system, he is President Pro of Criminal Justice at State University of New Tem of the NY Senate and Chair of Committee York at Albany. on Revenue and Budget. A graduate of Brown University, he earned his MBAS at Harvard Lamont Carey Business School. He spent three years working in Lamont Carey, acting executive director of the investment banking at Morgan Stanley before re- Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizens in Wash., turning to Harlem to work on affordable housing. DC, is a native Washington who has been in- volved in various facets of reentry for the past 17 Alfred Blumstein years. He has used his personal experiences with Alfred Blumstein, Ph.D., is the J. Erik Jonsson the criminal justice system to fuel his passion to University Professor of Urban Systems and Op- help others recognize and overcome barriers to erations Research at Carnegie Mellon University. increase the opportunity for success. He writes, Prof. Blumstein’s research over the past 20 years “Being a product of my experiences, I believe has covered many aspects of criminal justice that waking up every morning in an environment phenomena and policy, including crime measure- that has opportunities for personal growth and en- ment, criminal careers, sentencing, deterrence and richment is the ultimate success. The majority of incapacitation, prison populations, demographic my staff is a living testament that in Washington, trends, juvenile violence, and drug-enforcement DC every returning citizen can be successful.” policy. A past president of the American Soci- His awards and honors include the 2018 Justice ety of Criminologists and one of the country’s Roundtable Certificate of Excellence from the most renowned criminal justice scholars, he has Sentinel Newspaper; the 2018 Black Inspiration been one of the most popular speakers at John award from the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Jay/Guggenheim Symposia. Among his most Caucus; the 2016 Civil Rights Award from the recent accomplishments, he headed the National National Black Caucus of State Legislators, and Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), a the 2008 Senate Congressional Award. multi-university initiative funded by the National Science Foundation, headquartered at the Heinz Tara Cobbins College. Tara Cobbins is a leader in the Albany, NY branch of the Katal Center for Health, Equity and Justice, a nonprofit that works with returning citizens and in America’s Prisons and the Legislative Assem- the wider community to advance health, equity bly of Ontario and has addressed conferences at and justice. A lifelong resident of Hudson, NY, Yale University, the University of Minnesota Law Tara is a mother of six, a grandmother, and an ac- School, and public forums throughout the coun- tive community leader in the West Hill Section of try on matters related to corrections and criminal Albany. Formerly incarcerated, Tara has drawn justice. Dawe earned his Bachelor of Science de- from that experience and been instrumental in ad- gree in Criminal Justice from the University of vocating for an overhaul of New York State’s pa- Massachusetts. In 2010 he was inducted into the role policies. Currently on parole, she reports that American Correctional Officer Hall of Fame for she has been subject to electronic monitoring and his advocacy on behalf of Correctional Officers is under constant threat herself of reincarceration, and for developing an intelligence network where due to her advocacy, “yet remains committed to corrections professionals can share best practices. her passion of assisting others that are oft-forgot- He resides in Belmont, MA. ten and marginalized.” Michele Deitch Rhett Covingon Michele Deitch is an attorney and Senior Lecturer Rhett Covington has served as Assistant Secretary on criminal justice policy at the University of for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Texas’s LBJ School of Public Affairs and at UT Correction under Secretary James Le Blanc since School of Law. She is one of the country’s leading December, 2014. He formerly served as a Deputy experts on correctional oversight, and has been a Assistant Secretary for Reentry since 2009, and court-appointed monitor of prison conditions in was a Probation & Parole supervisor and agent Texas, a criminal justice consultant, and a policy for 15 years in the Baton Rouge area. Covington advisor to the Texas Legislature. She chaired the is an advisory member of the Louisiana Sentenc- Travis County (TX) Sheriff’s Advisory Commit- ing Commission and previously co-chaired the tee on the Women’s Jail, which proposed a rei- Reentry & Evidence Based Committee. He is the magined women’s facility based on best practices correction department’s designated representative around the world. Michele is a frequent commen- on the Louisiana Reentry Advisory Council and tator in the national and local media on prison and on the Workforce Investment Council, and is in- jail issues, as well as on juvenile justice, and was volved in efforts to create and expand local and a speaker at the Center on Media, Crime and Jus- regional reentry coalitions throughout the state. tice workshop for Texas journalists in Austin in Covington currently oversees the Office of - Of September, 2019. fender Reentry and works with other state and lo- cal agencies to expand reentry opportunities for Scott Erfe offenders in the custody of Louisiana corrections. Scott Erfe is District Administrator of the Con- necticut Department of Correction in New Brit- Brian Dawe ain, CT. With over 28 years of experience in the Brian Dawe is a leading figure in the prison re- corrections field, he has served in posts from cor- form movement. He is the Executive Director for rectional officer to warden. Most recently he was the American Correctional Officer Intelligence warden of the Cheshire Correctional Institution, a Network (ACOIN) and the National Director supermax facility for adult, long-term offenders. for the COPTSD156 Coalition. An outspoken At Cheshire, he managed the T.R.U.E. pilot pro- critic of many aspects of the criminal justice sys- gram, an innovative approach for 18-25 year-old tem and advocate for his profession, Dawe is a offenders modeled in part on the prison system veteran corrections officer and co-founded the in Germany. He was featured in a CBS “60 Min- Massachusetts Correctional Officers Federated utes” documentary earlier this year. Union. Dawe has testified before the U.S. Attor- ney General’s Commission on Safety and Abuse Clare Garvie College, and Executive Editor of The Crime Re- Clare Garvie is a senior associate with the Cen- port. He also serves as host of “Criminal Justice ter on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Matters,” a monthly TV show at CUNY-TV; and Law. She was the lead author on The Perpetual has served consulting managing editor of Ameri- Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition cas Quarterly, a journal on hemisphere affairs in America in 2016 and two follow-up reports. published by The Americas Society. An award- In 2019 she testified before the House Oversight winning veteran journalist, columnist and foreign Committee about police use of face recognition. correspondent with over 30 years’ experience in Her commentary has appeared in The New York reporting and editing (most recently TIME Mag- Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street azine), he has been a consultant to U.S. law en- Journal, and she serves as an expert resource to forcement agencies and the United Nations, and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress has lectured and taught at universities throughout and state legislatures. She received her J.D. from the U.S. Georgetown Law and her B.A. from Barnard College in political science, human rights, and John F. Hollway psychology. She is on Twitter at @ClareAngelyn. John F. Hollway is Associate Dean and Execu- tive Director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Ted Gest Administration of Justice at the University of Ted Gest is president of Criminal Justice Jour- Pennsylvania Law School. The Quattrone Cen- nalists, the nation’s only association of criminal ter is a national research and policy hub created justice reporters, which he co-founded in 1997. to catalyze long-term structural improvements He oversees the daily news digest “Crime and to the US criminal justice system. Hollway is Justice News” for The Crime Report, and serves the author of Killing Time: An 18-Year Odys- as TCR’s Washington Bureau Chief. Mr. Gest sey from Death Row to Freedom, which covered covered the White House, the Justice Department, the case of John Thompson, a Louisiana Death the Supreme Court, and legal/justice news during Row inmate who was exonerated and freed after a 24-year career at U.S. News & World Report. 18 years in prison. Hollway graduated from the From September 2011 through March 2015, University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and received he served as public information officer for the his JD with honors from the George Washington Washington, D.C., Attorney General.A veteran University Law School. journalist, Ted began his career at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (his native city). A former coordi- C. West Huddleston nator of the Council of National Journalism Or- C. West Huddleston is VP for Business Develop- ganizations (2003-2006), Ted has been cited by ment at Nexus/SCRAM systems. A former CEO the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, chief) of the National Association of Drug Court and won an American Bar Association Silver Professionals, he is an internationally-recognized Gavel Award. He is the author of Crime and Poli- advocate for alternative court dockets, known tics (Oxford University Press, 2001). Mr. Gest is as problem-solving courts, and evidence-based a graduate of Oberlin College and the Graduate community corrections for offenders involved in School of Journalism at Columbia University. He drug and alcohol abuse as a component of their serves as a juror for the annual John Jay/Harry crimes. He’s a widely published author and key- Frank Guggenheim Awards for Excellence in note speaker, has testified before state and federal Criminal Justice Reporting. He lives in Washing- legislators and international parliaments, and has ton, DC with his wife. worked with media outlets worldwide.

Stephen Handelman Sebastian Johnson Stephen Handelman is Director of the Center on Sebastian Johnson helps to oversee the correc- Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ) at John Jay tions and reentry portfolio on the Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures. Prior to joining Arnold incarcerated and formerly incarcerated; and how Ventures, he was a senior associate at Freedman the justice system handles persons with mental Consulting, where he managed strategic planning illness. Her honors include a Pulitzer Prize shared and research for major philanthropies pursuing with a team at Newsday in New York. She has criminal justice reform. During his time as a State been a Pulitzer Prize juror and jury chair. She has Policy Fellow at the Institute on Taxation and won fellowships from, among others, the Fund Economic Policy, he oversaw research focused on for Investigative Journalism, National Institutes the use of fines and fees at the state and local lev- of Health Medicine in Media, Rosalynn Carter el.Sebastian’s writing on criminal justice reform Mental Health Journalism and World Conference and other topics has been featured in The Wash- of Science Journalists. She runs the New York ington Post and the Los Angeles Times, among University Urban Journalism Workshop, and has other publications. He received a B.S. in political taught journalism at Columbia University, Hunt- economy from Georgetown University before at- er College and Long Island University. tending Harvard University to earn his M.P.P. Marirosa Lamas Thaddeus Johnson Marirosa Lamas has been superintendent at Thaddeus L. Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in Chester State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Criminology & Criminal Justice at the Andrew Delaware County, PA since 2016. Marirosa be- Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State gan her corrections career in 1990 as a counselor University, where he will become a tenure-track at SCI Camp Hill. While still working at the pris- assistant professor this fall. A recently appointed on, she also served as unit manager. After serv- Senior Fellow for the Council on Criminal Jus- ing as superintendent of a number of facilities, in tice, he draws on his experience as a former rank- 2013, she was tasked with serving as a coordina- ing law enforcement official in Memphis, TN, tor and trainer in the area of Crisis Intervention to examine topics related to police innovations, Team (CIT) Training, which played a major role urban violence, corrections, and criminal justice in helping the department to achieve its goal of policy. Following his career in law enforcement, training employees that deal with mentally ill of- he received his bachelor’s degree (2014) and fenders and how to respond to and deescalate sit- Master’s degree (2016) in Criminal Justice at the uations and to provide offenders with appropriate University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. Reflective services. A native of Puerto Rico, Marirosa is a of his interest in juvenile deliquency and educa- professionally certified and trained hostage nego- tion, Thaddeus’ thesis was entitled “Mitigating tiator. She earned a bachelor’s degree in admin- Delinquency through Academic Intervention: An istration of justice from The Pennsylvania State Empirical Test of Social Control Theory.” His University. She also holds a Master’s degree in research interests include juvenile delinquency, Administration of Justice from Shippensburg policing, and the etiology of urban violence. University. She is a member of the Pennsylva- nia Prison Warden’s Association, Association of Katti Gray Women Executives in Corrections (AWEC) and Katti Gray, The Crime Report Contributing the American Correctional Association. Editor, is a freelance journalist mainly covering criminal justice and health. Her bylines have ap- Nancy La Vigne peared in AARP, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Nancy G. La Vigne, Ph.D., is vice president for Health Affairs, Ms., Reuters, Salon, The Sun, The justice policy at the Urban Institute. She pub- Washington Post and other publications. For the lishes research on prisoner reentry, criminal Center on Media, Crime and Justice, she orga- justice technologies, crime prevention, policing, nizes journalism conferences and fellowships, in- and the spatial analysis of crime and criminal cluding previous ones exploring solitary confine- behavior. Her work appears in scholarly journals ment; Obamacare provisions for prison, jails, the and practitioner publications and has made her a sought-after spokesperson on related subjects. at John Jay College, Moskos is a faculty mem- Before joining Urban, Dr. La Vigne was founding ber in CUNY’s Doctoral Program in Sociology, director of the Crime Mapping Research Center has taught introductory criminal justice classes at at the National Institute of Justice, and served as LaGuardia Community College in Queens, and special assistant to the assistant attorney general is a Senior Fellow of the Yale Urban Ethnogra- for the Office of Justice Programs within the US phy Project. Moskos’ three books — Cop in the Department of Justice. Dr. La Vigne was ex- Hood, In Defense of Flogging, and Greek Ameri- ecutive director for the bipartisan Charles Col- cans — have won high praise and earned him son Task Force on Federal Corrections Reform recognition as one of Atlantic Magazine’s “Brave and was founding chair of the Crime and Jus- Thinkers” of the year. He has also published tice Research Alliance. She has testified before in the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Congress and has been featured on NPR and in the New York Times, CNN, Macleans, Pacific the Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, Standard, Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Educa- and Chicago Tribune. She holds a BA in govern- tion, and his blog, copinthehood.com. Moskos is ment and economics from Smith College, an MA currently working on an oral history of the New in public affairs from the LBJ School at the Uni- York City crime drop, told from the perspective versity of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in criminal of police officers who were on the job. justice from Rutgers University. Jeremiah Mosteller Jeffrey Mansfield Jeremiah Mosteller serves as Policy Counsel Jeffrey Mansfield, a design director at MASS De- at the Due Process Institute. Before joining the sign Group, explores the relationships between Due Process Institute, he worked alongside the architecture, landscape, and power through his teams at Stand Together, Prison Fellowship, and work. Jeffrey co-edited MASS Design Group’s the Charles Koch Institute to advance positive first monograph, Justice is Beauty (The Mona- reforms in many of our criminal justice systems celli Press), and his work has been published across the country. Jeremiah’s research and writ- in the Cooper Hewitt Design Journal, AD, Ta- ing focus on proportional punishment, construc- cet and exhibited at MoMA PS1, Bergen Assem- tive prison culture, and second chances in our bly, Sao Paulo Biennale, the Sharjah Biennial, justice system. Mosteller attended Liberty Uni- and Tallinn Art Hall. Jeffrey holds a Master of versity School of Law, where he earned his Juris Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Doctor and Master of Business Administration Design and an AB in Architecture from Princeton degrees.” University and has been deaf since birth, attend- ing a deaf school in Massachusetts, where his Mark Obbie earliest intuitions about the relationship between Mark Obbie, a contributor to The Crime Report, architecture, power, and society emerged. Jeffrey is a full-time freelancer based in upstate New is also a three-time Deaflympian, winning gold York. His work focuses on criminal justice pol- with the USA Men’s Deaflympic Ice Hockey icy, including violent crime prevention, policing, Team in 2007 and 2019. and victims. He is a veteran reporter and editor at ​ daily and weekly newspapers, in digital publish- Peter Moskos ing, and at monthly magazines. He is the former Peter Moskos, Ph.D., is chairperson of the De- executive editor of The American Lawyer in New partment of Law, Police Science, and Criminal York and a former magazine journalism profes- Justice Administration at John Jay College of sor at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. Criminal Justice in New York City. He is the di- rector of John Jay College’s NYPD Executive Jhody Polk Master’s Program and a former Baltimore City Jhody Polk, a native of Gainesville, Florida, is Police Officer.In addition to his primary duties the Founder of L.E.A.H., the Legal Empower- ment & Advocacy Hub, and the Florida Coun- a statutory mandatory life term of imprisonment cil for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated without the possibility of parole for a nonviolent Women and Girls. She is also the Director of federal drug offense. On May 16, 2019 Albert was Community Justice at the River Phoenix Center granted immediate release due in large part to the for Peacebuilding. In 2018, Jhody was awarded a First Step Act Of 2018, after serving 25 years. Al- Soros Justice Fellowship, where she launched the bert recognizes that sharing his life story and dis- Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative, that same year she cussing the trials and tribulations that he has en- launched the first participatory defense hub in the dured before going, and while being imprisoned, state of Florida. Jhody is also known for her work can possibly influence and save lives. He has ap- as a central Florida organizer in the campaign to peared on multiple media interviews, including restore voting rights to over 1.5 million Floridians MTV, ABC News “Good Morning America” and with felony convictions. Through L.E.A.H she was featured in The Crime Report. As a member uses strategies of legal empowerment, commu- of the Interdenominational Church Of God, Black nity peacebuilding, and community organizing to Fathers Foundation, Montgomery Village Toast- expand access to justice, peace, and power for iso- masters International Club, and 2019-2020 Com- lated, vulnerable, and incarcerated communities. munity Advocacy Institute (CAI). Albert writes She served as the Director of the Alachua County that his life since leaving prison has been aimed at Reentry Coalition 2018-2019 and is a proud mem- “showing the world that despite his past he has a ber of the National Council for Incarcerated and promising and successful future ahead.” Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Namati, The National Lawyers Guild, Dream Defenders, Stanley Richards and the League of Women Voters. Stanley Richards is the Executive Vice President of The Fortune Society, a service and advocacy Vikrant Reddy non-profit in NYC whose mission is to support Vikrant P. Reddy is a Senior Research Fellow successful reentry from prison and promote alter- at the Charles Koch Institute. Reddy previously natives to incarceration. Stanley, who describes served as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Center for himself as a “formerly incarcerated man of color,” Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foun- is a “Champion of Change” recipient, awarded by dation (TPPF), where he managed the launch the Obama Administration. His current appoint- of TPPF’s national Right on Crime initiative in ments include: the NYC Board of Correction; 2010. He has also worked as a research assistant the Independent Commission on New York City at the Cato Institute, as a law clerk to the Hon. Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform; and Gina M. Benavides of the 13th Court of Appeals the Working Group on Design, a subcommittee of of Texas, and as an attorney in private practice. the Implementation Task Force to ensure effective Reddy graduated from the University of Texas at implementation of the “Smaller, Safer, Fairer” Austin with a BA in Plan II Honors, economics criminal justice system and history, and he earned his law degree at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School Richard Rosenfeld of Law in Dallas. He is a member of the State Bar Richard Rosenfeld, Ph.D., is the Founders Pro- of Texas, and he is an appointee to the U.S. Com- fessor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at mission on Civil Rights Texas State Advisory the University of Missouri - St. Louis. His re- Committee. search interests include the study of crime trends, crime statistics, and criminal justice policy. Prof. Albert Reed Jr. Rosenfeld is a Fellow and past President of the Albert Delon Reed Jr. is a consultant, social jus- American Society of Criminology. He received tice commentator, prison reform advocate, poet, the Society’s 2017 Edwin Sutherland Award for and public speaker based in Gaithersburg, MD. contributions to criminology. On September 10, 1995 Albert was sentenced to Kim Rossmo Kim Rossmo, Ph.D., is the University Chair in viously served as vice president and chief pro- Criminology and the Director of the Center for gram officer at Vera. Before attending Yale Law Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation in the School, he worked with court-involved, home- School of Criminal Justice at Texas State Univer- less, and troubled young people at Sasha Bruce sity. He was formerly a management consultant Youthwork, a Washington, DC, youth services with the ATF, the Director of Research for the Po- organization, from 1989 to 1993. lice Foundation, and a Detective Inspector with the Vancouver Police Department. Dr. Rossmo Daniel F. Wilhelm is a member of the IACP Advisory Committee Daniel F. Wilhelm is president of The Harry for Police Investigative Operations. He recently Frank Guggenheim Foundation, a leader in ad- completed a large National Institute of Justice dressing violence and conflict through research research project, the major findings of which and programs. Previously, Wilhelm was a Senior were published in “Confirmation bias and other Fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice, a non- systemic causes of wrongful convictions: A senti- governmental organization working to improve nel events perspective” (Northeastern University justice systems. From 2007-2015, he was Vera’s Law Review, 2019). Vice President and Chief Program Officer. He joined the Institute in 2001. Earlier Wilhelm was Vincent Schiraldi an attorney at Sidley & Austin and served as law Vincent Schiraldi is co-director of the Columbia clerk to U.S. District Judge Frederic Block in Justice Lab and senior research scientist/adjunct Brooklyn. He has written on justice matters for professor at the Columbia University School of a number of publications and testified before leg- Social Work. After founding the policy think islative and other panels in some 20 states. Wil- tank, the Justice Policy Institute, he moved to helm is a graduate of Northwestern University government as director of the juvenile corrections School of Law, Harvard Divinity School, and the in Washington DC, and then as Commissioner School of Foreign Service at Georgetown Uni- of the New York City Department of Probation. versity. Most recently, Schiraldi served as Senior Advisor to the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Michael Williams Justice. Schiraldi, a frequent contributor to The Michael Williams is the senior manager of adult Crime Report, has been a leader in the campaign policy and leads the jail and community super- to rethink community supervision. He pioneered vision portfolio at the Pew Public Safety Perfor- efforts at community-based alternatives to incar- mance Project. Before coming to Pew, Williams ceration in NYC and Washington DC. Schiraldi was the deputy associate director for operations received a MSW from New York University, and at the Pretrial Services Agency for the District a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University. of Columbia. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing risk assessment, supervision, and Nicholas Turner treatment operations. He earned a bachelor’s de- Nicholas Turner joined the Vera Institute of gree in psychology from Lincoln University in Justice as its fifth president in 2013. Under his Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in public ad- leadership,Vera has worked closely with gov- ministration from American University. ernments and advocates to enact sweeping bail reform in several states, built a bipartisan move- ment to reinstate Pell grants for people in prison, and partnered with dozens of local justice sys- tems to reduce jail populations, end solitary con- finement, and bring dignity to life behind bars. Nick came to Vera from the Rockefeller Founda- tion, where he was managing director, and pre- 2020 Reporting Fellows

JOHN JAY/HARRY FRANK journalism has been recognized by the Society GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS of Professional Journalists’ Northwest regional contest and the Society for Features Journalism’s national contest. Her numerous honors from the Lawrence Bartley Alaska Press Club include a top investigative re- News Inside, The Marshall Project porting award. She was a 2017 Kiplinger Fellow​ Lawrence Bartley, Director of “News Inside” for at Ohio State University. The Marshall Project, holds an advanced degree in Professional Studies from New York Theologi- Jon Collins cal Seminary and a B.S. from Mercy College. He Minnesota Public Radio serves as a Board of Directors member for Pris- Jon Collins focuses on class and criminal jus- oner Legal Services and Rehabilitation Through tice for MPR News’ Race, Class and Communi- the Arts. He also serves on the advisory board for ties desk. He is a co-creator and co-host of the the Parole Preparation Project and Panacea Vid- Peabody Award-winning podcast “74 Seconds,” eo. Previously, Lawrence co-founded “Forgotten which followed the case of the first officer in the Voices” and its successor “Voices From Within,” state to be prosecuted for an on-duty killing (he which highlights remorse, redemption and alters was found not guilty). Jon later provided in-depth perception through video presentations. Law- coverage for MPR News and NPR of the first of- rence is an accomplished public speaker and has ficer in state history who was convicted and sen- provided multimedia content for NBC Nightly tenced to prison time for killing a civilian. He has News, MSNBC, the NY Emmy-winning three- also focused extensively on the opioid overdose part series “Drama in the Big House”, NPR’s epidemic, reporting on gaps in resources and ser- “All Things Considered,” WNYC’s Death, Sex vices in the state, culminating in a 2016 audio and and Money podcast, and his “Power of a Parents online project. He is a former board member of Voice” TED talk. Wipf, Stock, and Vice have also the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Profes- published his writing. sional Journalists and a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors. Jon lives in Minneapolis Michelle Theriault Boots with one dog and three bikes. Anchorage Daily News Michelle Theriault Boots has been a reporter Molly Crane-Newman for the Anchorage Daily News since 2012. Be- New York Daily News fore moving to Alaska, she worked as a reporter Molly Crane-Newman began working for the New in California, Oregon and Washington, earned a York Daily News in June 2015 after moving from master’s degree from the University of Oregon’s her hometown of Dublin to New York City. Since literary journalism program, and reported for The then, she has reported over 2,000 stories on an Associated Press in South Africa. In Alaska, she extensive range of topics — including local and worked for local TV stations and taught college national breaking news, crime and the criminal journalism classes before joining the state’s big- justice system, police brutality, policy issues with- gest newspaper. Her work focuses on the human in the NYPD and various city agencies, and sex impact of policy decisions, ranging from an in- abuse in the Catholic Church. Prior to taking over vestigation of inmate deaths in Alaska prisons as The News’ Manhattan courts reporter, she cov- to in-depth coverage of an unfolding crisis at ered multiple trials and other court proceedings, Alaska’s sole state-run psychiatric hospital. Her including the three-month-long federal drug traf- ficking trial of Joaquín” El Chapo” Guzmán Loera Melanie Eversley in Brooklyn and, more recently, the murder trials TheGrio/Fortune of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz and Matthew Melanie Eversley is an award-winning journal- McCree in the Bronx. Currently, she is covering ist who has covered race, criminal justice and the Harvey Weinstein trial in New York City. politics in a career that has spanned numerous national news organizations. The native New Noelle Crombie Yorker has written about the proposed closure of The Oregonian Riker’s Island, the unsuccessful clemency cam- Noelle Crombie, a senior staff writer at The Or- paign for Troy Davis, and wrongful incarceration egonian, recently conducted a three-year investi- and criminal justice as an issue in the 2020 presi- gation that revealed the toll of a long-delayed rape dential campaign. She has covered Washington kit analysis on a sexual assault victim. She has for the Detroit Free Press and the Atlanta Jour- also investigated white nationalism in Oregon and nal-Constitution, and breaking news and race for exposed a Portland-area police agency’s failure to USA Today. She is a contributor to TheGrio.com discipline a veteran cop with a history of ignor- and a political contributor for Fortune.com. Her ing sex crime complaints. Her 7,000-word narra- work also has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, tive series and five-part documentary published Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald, Philadel- in 2018 won five regional Emmys and Oregon’s phia Inquirer, New York Daily News, Essence, top investigative journalism award. Last year, she NBCNews.com and TheRoot.com. She hopes led a 10-month investigation into sexual abuse to launch a news organization that will include allegations against a founder of an international incarceration as a focus. Melanie is a graduate humanitarian organization based in Portland. Her of the Columbia University Graduate School reporting prompted the immediate resignation of of Journalism and Oberlin College. She lives in the organization’s CEO, one of its top lawyers, Manhattan. and a veteran board member. Beth Fertig Rachel Dissell WNYC The Plain Dealer Beth Fertig is a senior reporter covering courts Dissell, a reporter for The Plain Dealer in Cleve- and legal affairs for WNYC, where she focuses on land since 2002, has written investigative pieces how different New Yorkers interact with the civil that she says have “changed laws, policies, hearts, and criminal justice systems. Her work explores and minds.” “Reinvestigating Rape,” a series whether justice is meted out fairly and whether done in partnership with fellow reporter Leila programs within the courts can reduce incarcera- Atassi, led to the testing of nearly 14,000 rape tion and solve social problems. She also covers kits and the investigations of decades-old cases the federal immigration courts and how changes that followed. Since then, nearly 800 defendants in immigration law affect New Yorkers under in Cleveland have been indicted in previously un- President Donald Trump’s administration. Beth prosecuted rape cases. “Toxic Neglect,” a series started at WNYC in 1995 covering city politics with colleague Brie Zeltner, exposed Cleveland’s and spent many years covering public education. poor track record for investigating lead-poisoned She is the author of Why cant u teach me 2 read? children. Following the series, a coalition of more Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools to than 300 concerned individuals worked with the the Test (FSG Books) which grew out of a radio city to pass a law that requires all rental homes in series on the low graduation rate for special edu- the city to be inspected for lead hazards. In 2019, cation students. She also worked on the award- “Case Closed,” a series with Andrea Simakis, ex- winning WNYC series “Being 12,” and reported plored the systemic failures of Cleveland police on efforts to promote integration in the New York through the experience of a woman who had to City public schools. Beth, a New York City na- solve her own rape. Rachel was a 2016 Dart Cen- tive, earned a Master’s in Social Sciences from ter for Journalism and Trauma Ochberg Fellow the University of Chicago. A frequent contributor and has received training in the neurobiology of to National Public Radio, she has won many lo- trauma and trauma-informed interviewing, and cal and national awards, including the prestigious storytelling techniques and ethics. Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award for Broadcast Journalism for her series of reports in public corruption. His most recent work, “Lethal 2001 about an effort to privatize some struggling Force,” was an 11-part series that revealed flaws city schools. in South Carolina’s officer-involved shooting investigations. The project won a Gannett Quar- Bethany Freudenthal terly Award for public service/watchdog report- Las Cruces Sun-News ing. Gross has been enthusiastic about criminal Bethany Freudenthal began her full-time journal- justice reporting since his earlier journalism days ism career in October 2015 assigned to cover a at Towson University. His previous employers murder trial in Roswell, New Mexico. Prior to include the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, The that day, she recalls, “I’d never stepped foot in a Frederick (MD) News-Post, and The Gazette, a courtroom or read a criminal affidavit. My then former weekly owned by The Washington Post. editor wasn’t sure if I’d be a good fit for that posi- Gross remains passionate about the core to his tion, but I ended up proving him wrong.” Since profession: shining light in dark places and be- then, she has covered crime, courts and break- ing a voice for the voiceless. Growing up near ing news on the island of Kauai, and is currently Washington, D.C., Gross and his wife now enjoy working the beat for the Las Cruces Sun-News, raising their two children in South Carolina. part of the USA TODAY Network. As a Muslim woman who wears a hijab, she writes that “I don’t Ashad Hajela look like your typical crime and courts reporter. The News & Observer But I have found that my hijab often offers com- Ashad Hajela covers public safety and breaking fort to crime victims and their families, opening news for The News & Observer in Raleigh. He the doors of trust for exclusive reporting.” was awarded the Media Law Fellowship at the University of South Carolina in October 2019. Henry Gass Ashad previously covered prisons and politics Christian Science Monitor for the Gotham Gazette and was a breaking news Henry Gass, Texas Correspondent for the Chris- intern at NY1. His work has also appeared in tian Science Monitor, was born and raised on the The Gothamist, West Side Spirit, Our Town NY south coast of England, near the naval city of and Chelsea News. He graduated as a Univer- Portsmouth. He has lived in the U.S. since the age sity Honors Scholar from New York University of 13. He began his journalism career as a vol- in 2019, double majoring in broadcast journal- unteer reporter for the Prince George’s County ism and history. Ashad also participated in New Sentinel. After four years reporting and editing his York University’s Journalism in Ghana program student newspaper at McGill University in Mon- in 2017, producing a capstone project about alter- treal, he joined the Monitor as an intern in 2014. native energy sources in Ghana. He has written He became interested in the criminal justice sys- about police accountability, the use of drug-sniff- tem while covering the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial ing dogs in schools, and bail/bond reform. in Boston, and has been tasked with covering the U.S. Supreme Court, immigration and the border, Sandy Hodson policing and other justice issues. Outside work, Augusta Chronicle his hobbies include hiking, film, and supporting Sandy Hodson’s investigative work for the Au- Liverpool F.C. gusta Chronicle has earned numerous accolades. Sandy has worked for newspapers from Indiana Daniel Gross to Tennessee and Georgia. Her reporting led to Greenville News criminal justice reforms in Augusta, and her se- Daniel Gross is an investigative watchdog report- ries, “The Wait for Conviction,” earned national er focusing on public safety and criminal justice honors from Investigative Reporters and Edi- for the Greenville News and the USA TODAY Net- tors. Her recent series on the dismal and abusive work in Greenville, South Carolina. His award- conditions in largely unregulated personal care winning reporting has examined law enforce- homes lead to changes in state law and the forma- ment use of force, police shootings, opioid addic- tion of a task force to crack down on the unscru- tion, mental health treatment, jail overcrowding, pulous owners. Sandy writes that she has turned prison safety, rehabilitation, civil litigation and an “unblinking spotlight on corruption and ex- ploitation throughout her career and continues to Lauren Poteat report with a passion to expose the truth.” National Newspaper Publishers Association Lauren Poteat currently serves as the Washington Chelsia Rose Marcius Correspondent for the National Newspaper Pub- New York Daily News lishers Association (NNPA), which also produces Chelsia Rose Marcius is the criminal justice Black Press USA. Heavily covering politics and reporter at the New York Daily News and the general news, before NNPA, Lauren also served author of Wild Escape: The Prison Break from as a general assignment reporter for the AFRO- Dannemora and the Manhunt that Captured American Newspaper located in D.C. and the America. She has covered some of the biggest Washington Informer, where she was awarded national stories of the decade, including the with a “Dateline Award” and developed her own mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Las Vegas; the weekly column entitled “Africa Now,” that fo- marathon bombing in Boston; the Ariel Castro cused on international and domestic affairs hap- kidnappings in Cleveland; the Pulse shooting pening within the continent. In addition to print in Orlando; and the Sandy Hook school shoot- journalism, Lauren also serves a general assign- ing in Newtown, CT. Now she covers the New ment field reporter for PG-CTV, located in Upper York City Department of Correction — includ- Marlboro, Maryland. Lauren was recently award- ing Rikers Island — as well as other a host of ed a fellowship, through the Ida B. Wells Society, other issues, like the prosecution of drug users to this year’s Investigative Reporters and Editors and those with mental illness. She has appeared (IRE) national convention in Houston and was on MSNBC, CNN, BBC Radio, WNYC, CBS given an “Emerging Leaders Award” from the New York, among others, to discuss her report- Washington Women’s Public Relation Society. ing. Apart from her work at the News, Chelsia also teaches at New York University where she Levi Pulkkinen received a master’s degree in Journalism. Freelance Levi Pulkkinen is an independent journalist based Marsha McLeod in Seattle. His work appears in The Guardian, US The Globe and Mail News & World Report, The Appeal, High Coun- Marsha McLeod is an investigative reporter cov- try News, Crosscut, and Bitterroot magazine. He ering inequality, courts and law enforcement, previously served as senior editor for SeattlePI, based in Toronto. She is currently an investiga- where he covered crime and criminal justice for tive reporting fellow at The Globe and Mail, a decade. Early stints at vigorous rural news- Canada’s national newspaper. In September, rooms allowed him to explore once-booming, McLeod published a 7,400-word investigation now-busted timber towns, and examine fights for into America’s largest correctional health care identity in an urbanizing farming community at provider, Wellpath, and its private equity owner the mouth of one of the West’s great rivers. As a in The Atlantic. The work was cited by lawmak- news reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in letters to and its online successor, Pulkkinen writes, he H.IG. Capital demanding greater transparency “watched forest fires come to life, heard pastors’ around their investment in the correctional indus- midnight prayers for peace on the streets, smelled try. Previously, McLeod covered criminal justice burning cedar in the longhouse, and tasted gal- fines and fees for Investigative Post, a non-profit lons of sweaty, desperate courtroom air.” His newsroom in Buffalo. Using state databases, she coverage of breaking news, health care and crim- specifically focused on traffic fines and driver’s inal justice has garnered top honors, as has his license suspensions. McLeod graduated with news feature writing. honors from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in May 2018, where she was a fel- Jordan Rubin low at the Stabile Center for Investigative Jour- Bloomberg Law nalism. Before diving into journalism, McLeod Jordan Rubin is a legal reporter at Bloomberg worked as a production assistant, podcaster and Law, covering the U.S. Supreme Court and other researcher. nationally significant legal matters—criminal matters in particular. In August, his investigative series, “America’s Secret Drug War”, which took Ryan Tarinelli an unprecedented look at the government’s han- The Associated Press, Albany dling of so-called “designer drug” prosecutions, Ryan Tarinelli is a temporary statehouse reporter featuring his exclusive interview of a DEA whis- with The Associated Press in Albany, focusing on tleblower. Prior to joining Bloomberg Law in criminal justice and mental health topics. His work April 2017, he served as a prosecutor at the New recently uncovered the fact that New York State York County District Attorney’s Office (Manhat- Police is the largest state-level law enforcement tan DA), where he was assigned to the Office of agency in the nation without bodycams or dash- the Special Narcotics prosecutor and worked tri- board cameras. He is also a Report for America als as well as investigations. He received his law corps member. Before landing at the statehouse in degree from Rutgers University-Newark in 2012 Albany, Ryan worked as a temporary reporter for and his undergraduate degree from Binghamton The Associated Press in Nevada and Texas. He led University (SUNY) in 2009. coverage of the killing of Botham Jean, who was shot by a white Dallas police officer who mistook Connor Sheets his apartment for her own. Earlier, he worked as a AL.com/The Birmingham News crime reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Connor Sheets is an investigative reporter for in Little Rock, where he anchored the paper’s AL.com / The Birmingham News. As a member of coverage of gangs and gun violence. He was part ProPublica’s 2019 Local Reporting Network, he of a three-person reporting team that uncovered is spending the entire year investigating Alabama how Arkansas’ gun laws make the state one of the sheriffs. Since he moved to Alabama in 2015, his deadliest in the nation. reporting has had a major impact, including spur- ring state officials to clearing the way for thou- sands of low-income felons to restore their vot- ing rights . He has exposed how the University of Alabama funnels large sums of “dark money” to political candidates to driving state lawmakers to pass a law barring sheriffs from pocketing jail food funds. His journalism has been published in many prominent outlets including ProPublica, The Guardian, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Salon, and Mother Jones. Born on Long Island, N.Y., he grew up in Maryland, where he deliv- ered newspapers as a teenager and landed his first reporting job after graduating from the Univer- sity of Maryland in 2007.

Dan Sullivan Tampa Bay Times Dan Sullivan is a writer for the Tampa Bay Times, where he has covered local police and sheriff’s departments, state and federal court cases, pris- ons, the death penalty, criminal justice reform, gun control, the opioid crisis, mental illness, and judicial politics. In the past year alone, he led coverage of three back-to-back high-profile ho- micide trials; wrote a long-form narrative about a man serving life for a crime he committed as a juvenile; and raised awareness about the case of a man who was set to be executed by the state of Florida despite doubts about his guilt. He gradu- ated in 2006 from the University of Tampa. JOHN JAY/QUATTRONE FELLOWSHIPS FBI. A planned HBO miniseries, based on the ma- terial, is under development by Blown Deadline Michael Barajas Productions and Spartan Productions. Texas Observer Michael Barajas, a staff writer for the Texas Thomas Peele Observer, has covered the criminal justice sys- Bay Area News Group tem, police brutality and other civil rights issues Thomas Peele is a Pulitzer Prize winning inves- across Texas for the past decade. Before joining tigative reporter for the Bay Area News Group in the Observer in 2017, he wrote for and edited northern California and a continuing lecturer at the San Antonio Current, where he covered ev- UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. erything from Texas’ woefully funded and patch- He specializes in accountability reporting focus- work mental health care system to jails plagued ing on public safety. From 2007-2011 he was by inmate suicide. Previously, he was also man- lead reporter of the collaborative Chauncey Baily aging editor at the Houston Press, where he Project, which was widely credited with forcing wrote about the city’s unconstitutional bail sys- the prosecution of all those responsible for Oak- tem, screw-ups by local prosecutors that resulted land journalist Chauncey Baily’s 2007 murder. in hundreds of false convictions, and question- Random House published his book on the case, able police shootings. Killing the Messenger, in 2012. Peele is currently reporting on thousands of cases involving Cali- Halley Freger fornia police misconduct and use-of -force con- ABC News tained in documents released under a new state Halley Freger’s career began at ABC News as an transparency law.Jason Pohl was a member of intern with Good Morning America, where she ProPublica’s 2019 Local Reporting Network and helped develop several investigative projects. She spent the year investigating increasing dangers in is currently an Associate Producer for the ABC county jails, indifference among elected sheriffs, News Investigative Unit. Some recent highlights and a lack of jail oversight since California began include the 20/20 documentary report Seed of a court-ordered criminal justice system transfor- Doubt that revealed that a woman’s biological mation a decade ago. Pohl previously reported father was actually her mother’s former fertility on criminal justice, public safety and mental doctor, and not the sperm donor her mother said health for newspapers in Arizona and Colorado. she had selected. She also collaborated with ABC He earned a master’s degree in sociology from affiliate stations for a report about BMWs catching Colorado State University, where his research on fire while parked, and off. Halley is passionate focused on inequality and disasters. He has bi- about visually telling investigative stories. cycled across America, is an avid runner and has recently started racing in ultra-marathons. Justin Fenton Baltimore Sun Justin Fenton has been a reporter with the Balti- more Sun since 2001, covering crime in Baltimore and various areas of the criminal justice for the past 11 years. During that time, he was part of a team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, for coverage of the police custody death of Freddie Gray and ensuing unrest. He was a two-time fi- nalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journal- ists, for reporting on rape investigations that led to sweeping reforms and a narrative series going inside a homicide investigation. Justin is current- ly finishing a book, to be published by Random House, about a corrupt group of police officers who terrorized the city for years until a suburban opioid investigation led to their takedown by the “The Crime Report makes me a better teacher.” SCOTT DECKER, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

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