John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America
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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