| Conference Participants Elizabeth Alexander, Director, ACLU National Prison Project, Washington, DC Barbara Attard, President, National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, San Jose, CA Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, Chair, NY Assembly Committee on Corrections, and Co-Chair, Council of State Governments Task Force on Public Safety and Justice, Queens, NY Major David Balagia, Jail Administrator, Travis County Sheriff's Office Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Camp Hill, PA Dennis Beaty, Assistant Chief Counsel, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Sacramento, CA Jack Beck, Director, Prison Visiting Project, The Correctional Association of New York, New York, NY Kate Black, Program Officer, Open Society Institute, New York, NY Merrick Bobb, President, Police Assessment Resource Center, and Monitor, LA County Jail, Los Angeles, CA David Bogard, Commissioner, ACA Commission on Accreditation for Corrections, and Principal, Pulitzer/Bogard & Associates, Lido Beach, NY Lynn Branham, Associate Dean, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Grand Rapids, MI John Brickman, Chair, The Correctional Association of New York, New York, NY Alvin J. Bronstein, Board President, Penal Reform International-The Americas, and Director Emeritus, ACLU National Prison Project, Washington, DC Charles Brown, Program Examiner, Office of Management and Budget-Justice Branch, Washington, DC Alex Busansky, Executive Director, Commission on Safety & Abuse in America’s Prisons, New York, NY Silvia Casale, President, Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), London, England Michael Cassidy, Managing Attorney, Prisoner Legal Services of NY, Ithaca, NY Matthew Cate, Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General for the State of California, Sacramento, CA Fred Cohen, Professor Emeritus, SUNY Albany, and Special Master for Ohio Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Tucson, AZ Terry Collins, Assistant Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Columbus, OH William C. Collins, Co-Editor, Correctional Law Reporter, and author/consultant, Olympia, WA Andrew Coyle, Founding Director and Professor, International Centre for Prison Studies, Kings College, London, England Gina DeBottis, Chief Prosecutor, Special Prosecution Unit, Huntsville, TX Theodorus De Roos, Professor, Univ. of Tilburg, Tilburg, the Netherlands Michele Deitch, Soros Senior Justice Fellow; Adjunct Professor, UT-LBJ School; and Reporter, ABA Prison Legal Standards Project, Austin, TX Kathleen Dennehy, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Corrections, Milford, MA Helga Dill, Chair, Texas CURE, Dallas TX William M. DiMascio, Executive Director, The Pennsylvania Prison Society, Philadelphia, PA Paul Downing, retired Chief Jail Inspector, Indiana Department of Corrections, Plainfield, IN Doug Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Correctional Institutions Division, Huntsville, TX Steve Fama, Staff Attorney, Prison Law Office, San Quentin, CA David Fathi, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project, Washington, DC Malcolm Feeley, Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Jamie Fellner, Director of U.S. Programs, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY Matthew Frank, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Madison, WI Alex Friedmann, Associate Editor, Prison Legal News, Antioch, TN Jenni Gainsborough, Director, Penal Reform International—Washington, D.C. Office, Washington, DC Robert Gangi, Executive Director, The Correctional Association of New York, New York, NY Michelle Gaseau, Managing Editor, Corrections Connection, Quincy, MA Ted Gest, President, Criminal Justice Journalists, Washington, DC Hon. John Gibbons, Co-Chair, Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons; retired Judge, U.S. Ct. of Appeals, 3rd Cir., Newark, NJ Elizabeth Gondles, President, Institute for Criminal Justice Health Care, Arlington, VA James Gondles, Executive Director, American Correctional Association, Lanham, MD Geri Green, Attorney, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, San Francisco, CA Robert Green, Warden, Montgomery County Correctional Facility, Boyds, MD Gene Guerrero, Senior Policy Analyst, Open Society Institute Policy Center, Washington, DC Michael Hamden, Executive Director, North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Commissioner, ACA Commission on Accreditation, and Co-Chair, ABA Corrections and Sentencing Committee, Raleigh, NC Dwight Harris, Executive Director, Texas Youth Commission, Austin, TX Kay Harris, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Roderick Q. Hickman, former Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Sacramento, CA Richard Hoffman, Executive Director, National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, Washington, DC Martin Horn, Commissioner, New York City Department of Corrections and Probation, New York, NY Michael Jackson, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Michael Jacobson, Director, Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY Gary Johnson, retired Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Austin, TX Susan Johnson, Executive Director, Prisoners Legal Services, Ithaca, NY Terry Julian, Executive Director, Texas Commission on Jail Standards, Austin, TX Hon. William Wayne Justice, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District, Austin, TX Hon. Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach, Co-Chair, Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, and former U.S. Attorney General, Princeton, NJ George Keiser, Chief, Prisons Division, National Institute of Corrections, Washington, DC Lisa Kung, Executive Director, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA Debbie Liles, Director of Administrative Review and Risk Management, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Huntsville, TX Rep. Jerry Madden, Chair, House Corrections Committee, Texas House of Representatives, Plano, TX Joseph Mancini, Assistant Attorney General, Ohio, Columbus, OH Daniel Manville, Clincial Staff Attorney, Wayne State Univ. Law School, Ferndale, MI Steve J. Martin, Attorney and Corrections Consultant, Austin, TX Rod Miller, President, Community Resource Services (CRS), Inc., Gettysburg, PA Shereen Miller, Director General of Rights, Redress, and Resolution, Correctional Services of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Teresa Miller, Professor, SUNY-Buffalo Law School, Buffalo, NY Beth Mitchell, Senior Attorney, Advocacy, Inc., Austin, TX John Moriarty, Inspector General, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Huntsville, TX Donald Murray, Senior Legislative Director, National Association of Counties, Arlington, VA Karen Murtagh-Monks, Director of Litigation, Prisoners Legal Services, Ithaca, NY Michael B. Mushlin, Professor, Pace Law School, White Plains, NY Charlene Navarro, Director Ombudsman Bureau, Indianapolis, IN Neil Nichols, General Counsel, Texas Youth Commission, Austin, TX Pat Nolan, President, Justice Fellowship, Leesburg, VA Cecilia Nordenfelt, Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman for Penal Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, London, England Major Robert Patterson, President, American Jail Association, and Jail Director, Bell County Sheriff's Office, Belton, TX James Pingeon, Litigation Director, Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, Boston, MA Shirley Pope, Executive Director, Ohio Correctional Institutions Inspection Committee, Columbus, OH Nicole Porter, Director, Prison and Jail Accountability Project, ACLU of Texas, Austin, TX Carl Reynolds, Administrative Director, Office of Court Administration, Austin, TX William Rich, Associate Dean and Professor, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, KS James Robertson, Professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN Howard Sapers, Correctional Investigator, Office of the Correctional Investigator, Ottawa, Canada Brigette Sarabi, Executive Director, Western Prison Project, Portland, OR Marc Schindler, General Counsel, DC Dept of Youth Rehabilitation Services, Washington, DC Margo Schlanger, Professor, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO Zoe Schonfeld, Staff Attorney, Prison Law Office, San Quentin, CA Dora Schriro, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Phoenix, AZ Frank Smith, Field Organizer, Private Corrections Institute, Bluff City, KS Rep. Vernon Smith, Indiana House of Representatives, Gary, IN Don Specter, Director, Prison Law Office, San Quentin, CA Betsy Sterling, Director of Special Litigation and Projects, Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Ithaca, NY Baroness Vivien Stern, Senior Research Fellow, International Center for Prison Studies, Kings College; and Member of the House of Lords, London, England Stan Stojkovic, Dean, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Morris Thigpen, Director, National Institute of Corrections, Washington, DC Greg Trout, Chief Counsel, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Columbus, OH Nick Turner, Chief Program Officer and Vice President, Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY Paul von Zielbauer, Reporter, The New York Times, New York, NY Peter Wagner, Executive Director, Prison Policy Initiative, Northampton, MA Leslie Walker, Executive Director, Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, Boston, MA Ashbel T. (A.T.) Wall, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections, Cranston, RI Arthur Wallenstein, Director, Montgomery County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Rockville, MD Joe Walraven, Review Director, Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, Austin, TX Hon. Reggie Walton, Chair, National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, and Judge, U.S. Dist. Ct. for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC Mike Ward, Reporter, Austin-American Statesman, Austin, TX Jeffrey Washington, Deputy Executive Director, American Correctional Association, Lanham, MD Sen. John Whitmire, Chair, Senate Criminal Justice Committee, Texas Senate, Houston, TX Reginald Wilkinson, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Columbus, OH Max Williams, Director, Oregon Department of Corrections, Salem, OR Nanci Wilson, Investigative Reporter, CBS 42 K-EYE NEWS, Austin, TX Richard T. Wolf, Executive Director, New York City Board of Correction, New York, NY Paul Wright, Editor, Prison Legal News, Brattleboro, VT |
