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,