On this week’s episode we begin a two-part in-depth interview with Vinny Schiraldi, a firebrand for justice reform whose career has included leadership on alternatives to incarceration, advocacy, and government leadership.
In part one we talk to Schiraldi, now a fellow with the Pinkerton Foundation, about his own formative impressions of the justice system as an adolescent growing up in Brooklyn. Then we discuss his first job working at a New York group home for delinquent youth, and the chance meeting with reformer Jerry Miller that challenged his early views on how to help kids.
We then talked about the launch of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice and the Justice Policy Institute, and the city that challenged him to address the
problems with its youth justice system that Schiraldi had relentlessly called
out as an advocate.
Thanks to Sellers Dorsey for sponsoring this episode!
Reading Room
Opinion: Trump’s Youth Justice Agenda Will Make Us Less Safe
https://imprintnews.org/opinion/trumps-youth-justice-agenda-will-make-us-less-safe/265375
With Jails Mired in ‘Culture of Violence,’ New York City Taps Juvenile Justice Reformer
Former Youth Corrections Officials: We Want to Help Close Youth Prisons
https://imprintnews.org/justice/new-york-justice-officials-close-youth-prisons/34514
Opinion: How to End the Era of Mass Supervision
https://imprintnews.org/justice/how-to-end-the-era-of-mass-supervision/37846
Learning from Massachusetts’ Juvenile Justice Experiment
https://youthtoday.org/2011/12/learning-from-massachusetts-juvenile-justice-experiment/
Sure They Talk, But Can They Walk?
https://youthtoday.org/2006/10/sure-they-talk-but-can-they-walk/
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