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October 19, 2025 98 mins

On this week’s episode we present the second part of our career-spanning interview with Vinny Schiraldi, currently a visiting fellow with the Pinkerton Foundation. In part one we talked with Schiraldi about his formative years in youth justice and his first job leading a government agency. 

We start part two with a job Schiraldi actually didn’t get: leading the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for the Obama administration. Then we turn to his time leading New York City’s probation, the notorious Rikers Island jail complex, and Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services. And we conclude with a few big picture questions about policy and practice. 

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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

https://imprintnews.org/justice/juvenile-justice-2/jails-culture-violence-new-york-juvenile-justice-reformer/54542

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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