Barry Krisberg, The National Council on Crime and Delinquency

Mr. Krisberg has been the President of NCCD for fourteen years. He is known nationally for his research and expertise on juvenile justice issues and is called upon as a resource for professionals and the media. Dr. Krisberg received his master's degree in criminology and a doctorate in sociology, both from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining NCCD, Dr. Krisberg held several education posts. He was faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Krisberg also was an adjunct professor with the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs School at the University of Minnesota. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Legal Studies at UC Berkeley and holds an adjunct Professorship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hawai`i.

Craig Haney, Professor of Psychology - University of California Santa Cruz

Craig Haney received his Ph.D. (in psychology) and J.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1978. One of the principal researchers on the highly publicized "Stanford Prison Experiment" in 1971, he has been studying the psychological effects of living and working in actual prison environments since then. His work has taken him to dozens of maximum security prisons across the United States and in several different countries where he has evaluated conditions of confinement and interviewed prisoners about the mental health consequences of incarceration. He also has been studying the backgrounds and social histories of persons accused or convicted of serious violent crime for more than 25 years, and has conducted research on and written extensively about the nature of capital jury decisionmaking process.

His scholarly writing and empirical research have addressed a wide range of crime and punishment related topics, including the causes of violent crime, the quality of fairness and justice that characterizes our system of capital punishment, psychological mechanisms by which prisoners adjust to incarceration, and the adverse effects of prolonged imprisonment, especially under severe conditions of confinement. Haney has published widely on a variety of criminal justice-related topics in a number of scholarly journals, including the American Psychologist, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, and the Stanford Law Review. His widely praised book, Reforming Punishment: Psychological Limits to the Pains of Imprisonment, was published by American Psychological Association Books in 2006. It focuses on the costs, consequences, and potential reform of the system of imprisonment in the United States.

Haney also has served as a consultant to various governmental agencies, including the White House, Department of Justice, California Legislature, and various state and federal courts. Haney's research, writing, and testimony have been cited in many judicial opinions that address death penalty law and procedures, as well as the psychological consequences of incarceration. Professor Haney has testified as an expert witness in many trials around the country, addressing a variety of important issues in the areas of criminal justice and constitutional law. His research, writing, and testimony has been cited in many state and federal courts, and he is often quoted in The New York Times, The Nation, National Public Radio, and numerous other national news outlets, discussing various aspects of capital punishment and the psychology of imprisonment.

Joyce Hayhoe, Secretary - California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Office of Legislation

Since November of 2003, Ms. Hayhoe has served as the Schwarzenegger Administration's primary legislative spokesperson on state adult and juvenile correctional issues. She was first appointed as the Deputy Secretary for Legislation at the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, and was reappointed to that role by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in July 2005 under the newly formed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Ms. Hayhoe has had several years of correctional experience in both the adult and juvenile justice field specific to the legislative area. She joined the Department of Corrections (CDC) in 1983 and spent several years as a legislative analyst, specializing in analyzing the fiscal impact of legislative changes to the Department of Corrections' prison and parole populations.

In 1990, Ms. Hayhoe was promoted to the role of Legislative Coordinator, Office of Legislation, for the Department and spent the next six years representing the Department before the Legislature, and worked on several significant pieces of legislation, such as “Three Strikes” and the Sexually Violent Predator statutes.

In 1996, Ms. Hayhoe left CDC for the Department of the Youth Authority and was promoted to the role of Assistant Director, Legislation, where she had responsibility for the legislative affairs of the Department of the Youth Authority up until her appointment as Deputy Secretary, Legislation, Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, in November 2003.

Donald Specter, The Prison Law Office

Mr. Specter is the Director of the Prison Law Office. The Prison Law Office is a nonprofit, ten attorney office providing free legal services to California state prisoners. During his tenure, Mr. Specter has been lead counsel in successful institutional reform litigation through federal and state class actions challenging various conditions of confinement at all 32 California state prisons. Mr. Specter has supervised and personally litigated scores of individual state and federal actions aimed at enforcing constitutional rights for adult offenders and provided advice and counsel to hundreds of individual prisoners and attorneys. Outside the courtroom, Mr. Specter has helped draft legislation and provided testimony to the California Legislature on prison issues. He was named a member of the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee for the Northern District of California from 1995 to 1997. Additionally, Mr. Specter was named co-chair to the Prisons and Post-Conviction Committee by the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice in 1997. In 2006, he was awarded the Significant Contributions to Criminal Justice Award by the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice. Mr. Specter graduated cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1978.

Michael Bien, Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP

Michael W. Bien, a partner at the San Francisco litigation boutique, Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP, has successfully litigated a series of major civil rights class actions against state and federal correction agencies. These cases have resulted in significant prospective relief regarding unconstitutional conditions of confinement, denial of mental health care, unlawful discrimination against persons with physical and mental disabilities, protection of prisoners from sexual assault, and parole revocation reform. Mr. Bien has also secured damages awards for individuals injured by inadequate prison psychiatric care and sexual assault of female prisoners. He is also well-recognized for accomplishments in developing the law of civil rights attorney's fees. He has briefed and argued several appeals to the Ninth Circuit regarding prisoner rights and civil rights attorneys' fees issues, including the effect of the attorney's fees provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Mr. Bien is a 1980 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. He was a litigation associate and partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison from 1980-1990. Mr. Bien has consulted, written and lectured on civil rights and attorney's fees issues on numerous occasions. He received an award from the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice "for outstanding contribution to the preservation of prison inmates' rights" in 1994 and from the California Coalition for Mental Health as "Outstanding Mental Health Advocate" in 2003. In addition to prisoner rights, disability rights and other civil rights and attorney's fees issues, Mr. Bien and his firm also specialize in employment discrimination, general commercial litigation, antitrust litigation, First Amendment litigation, class actions, and other complex trial and appellate litigation.

Michael Jacobson, The Vera Institute of Justice

Michael P. Jacobson joined Vera as its fourth director in January 2005. Before then he was a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. A Ph.D. in sociology, he was the New York City Correction Commissioner from 1995 to 1998 and the City's Probation Commissioner from 1992 to 1996. Prior to that, he worked in the New York City Office of Management and Budget from 1984 to 1992 where he was the Deputy Budget Director. He is the author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration (New York University Press 2005). He serves as chair of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency.

Michael Jimenez, CCPOA

Kara Dansky, The Stanford Criminal Justice Center

Ms. Dansky is the executive director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC), a Lecturer at Stanford Law School, and a leading voice on criminal law and criminal justice policy issues state-wide and nationally. At SCJC, Dansky coordinates symposia, conferences, and speaker series; teaches seminars on sentencing law, policy and diversion courts; and advises policy-makers on a wide range of criminal justice issues, including corrections and sentencing reform and the creation of a sentencing commission for the state of California. She also coordinates the Stanford Executive Sessions on Sentencing and Corrections, a policy working group focused on sentencing and corrections reform in California. Dansky serves on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions and in 2006-07 served on the Advisory Committee for the Little Hoover Commission's Sentencing Reform Project. She has testified numerous times before the California legislature regarding the benefits of sentencing commissions in developing sentencing policy. Additional research interests include legal and policy concerns associated with DNA collection and the success of diversion courts. Before joining Stanford, Dansky was a staff attorney for the Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons in Seattle. She received her B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

James Austin, JFA Institute

Mr. Austin is the President of the JFA Institute. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Institute of Crime, Justice and Corrections at the George Washington University, and Executive Vice President for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Dr. Austin received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Davis. He began his career in corrections with the Illinois Department of Corrections in 1970 at Statesville Penitentiary. He was named by the American Correctional Association as its recipient of the Peter P. Lejin's Research Award, and received the Western Society of Criminology Paul Tappin award for outstanding contributions in the field of criminology. He also has served as the Chair of the National Policy Council for the American Society of Criminology. In 2007 he was appointed to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Expert Panel on Adult Offender Recidivism Reduction Programs.

Roger K. Warren, National Center for State Courts

Judge Roger K. Warren serves as Scholar-in-Residence with the Judicial Council of California where he organized the 2007 Judicial Symposium on Public Safety, Sentencing, and Corrections. He is also President Emeritus of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), serving as President of the NCSC from 1996 until 2004, and currently serves as Director of the NCSC national sentencing reform project, "Getting Smarter about Sentencing". He has recently published several works for state court judges on evidence-based practice to reduce recidivism. He also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Justice at Stake Campaign, a national, non-partisan coalition of 45 organizations committed to keeping America's courts fair, impartial and independent.

Previously, Judge Warren served as a trial judge in Sacramento, California for twenty years. He served as Presiding Judge of the Sacramento Superior Court in 1992 and 1993 and on the California Constitution Revision Commission from 1994-1996. He also served as a member of the Judicial Council of California and was the Founding Chair of its statewide Trial Court Presiding Judges Committee.

During his tenure as a judge in Sacramento, Judge Warren was actively involved in criminal justice reform activities. He was the Founder and First Chair of the Sacramento Probation Oversight Committee, the Sacramento Intermediate Punishments Committee, and the Sacramento Criminal Justice Cabinet. He also served on the National Advisory Board to the National Institute of Corrections Project on Facilitating the Use of Intermediate Sanctions. He received the annual Judicial Award from the California Probation, Parole and Correctional Association in 1991 and the California Judicial Council's Ralph N. Kleps Award in 1992 for his work in developing the Sacramento Criminal Justice Cabinet.

Judge Warren graduated from Williams College and following a Fulbright Fellowship to Iran received a Masters Degree in Political Science and JD degree from the University of Chicago where he served as an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He is married and has two children.

Thomas Hoffman, CDCR, Adult Parole Operations

Mr. Hoffman is responsible for the administration and over sight of the California Adult Parole operation. Supported by a staff of over 4,200 employees, deployed in four Regions throughout the State, DAPO charged with the supervision and control of over 120,000 adult parolees. DAPO is currently tasked with the obligation to prepare the organization for the implementation of Jessica's Law (Proposition 83), the deployment of 2,000 GPS units for HRSO's and the enhancement of the various programs to assist the parolees' re-introduction to society.

Prior to DAPO, Mr. Hoffman had a thirty year career in municipal law enforcement. He served as the Interim Chief of Police for the City of West Sacramento. From 1994 to 2004 He also served as the Deputy Chief of Police for West Sacramento. Prior to joining West Sacramento, he served with the City of Inglewood Police Department from 1974 to 1994, moving through the ranks from Officer to Captain. As the Deputy Chief of Police for the West Sacramento Police Department, Mr. Hoffman was the project manager for the accreditation process for the City of West Sacramento. The Department was ultimately awarded national accreditation status, at the time it were only the eighth municipal police organization in the State to achieve this status.

Mr. Hoffman was selected as the “Most Inspirational” student by his peers in the POST Command College, Class 18. Mr. Hoffman is proud to have served in municipal law enforcement for thirty years, retired via a non-disability, service retirement, while being married and raising a family with Kim, his wife of 24 years, Kim.

Jeanne Woodford, Chief Probation Officer for San Francisco County

Jeanne Woodford is the present Chief of the San Francisco Adult Probation Department. Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Superior Court of San Francisco appointed her to this position on November 1, 2006.

Ms. Woodford has extensive experience in Corrections and Rehabilitation. She has served as Undersecretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the largest correctional system in the United States. She was appointed to this position by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Her key responsibilities included advising the Secretary on major policy, program and organizational issues. Jeanne was entrusted to represent the department in a variety of areas in terms of interfacing with the Legislature, Governor's Office, Department of Finance, and other local, state and federal agencies as well as constitute groups. Ms. Woodford's experience also includes Director, Department of Corrections, 2004; Warden, San Quentin State Prison, 2000; Chief Deputy Warden, San Quentin State Prison, 1997 and Associate Warden, San Quentin State Prison, 1996. Ms. Woodford began her career in corrections in 1978 following her graduation from Sonoma State University with a B.A. in Criminal Justice. Ms. Woodford has utilized her education and experience to become a leader in the field of Corrections.

Prof. Jonathan Simon, UC Berkeley School of Law

Prof. Simon is Associate Dean for Jurisprudence and Social Policy, and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, both at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where is also a Professor of Law. Simon has been studying California's prison boom since the mid-1980s when he conducted research on why so many California parolees returned to prison. His first book, Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990 (1993) explained the political, legal and social changes that had combined to make mass incarceration popular in California and other states in the 1980s. His most recent book, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (2007) explains how mass incarceration is now embedded in a broad political logic that makes ever growing prison populations normal.

James P. Fox

Mr. Fox has served as the District Attorney of San Mateo County since 1983. Currently, he is a member of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice and the Criminal Law Advisory Committee of the Judicial Council of California. Since 1995, Mr. Fox has served on the Board of Directors for the National District Attorney's Association and became the President of the Association in 2007. Mr. Fox obtained his juris doctorate from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1968.

Professor Marc Miller,University of Arizona - Rogers College of Law

After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Marc L. Miller clerked for Chief Judge C. Godbold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He then worked in the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, and subsequently served as Special Counsel at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York. In 1988 Miller joined the faculty of Emory University School of Law where he taught for 17 years and held the position of Associate Dean for Faculty and Scholarship. In 2005 Miller moved to the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, where he serves as the Ralph W. Bilby Professor. Miller was a founding editor, with Dan Freed, of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, and is a coauthor (with Ron Wright) of Criminal Procedures (3rd Ed. 2007) and (with Wright, Nora Demleitner and Doug Berman) of Sentencing Law & Policy (2d Ed. 2007). He writes and teaches on questions of criminal law and policy, and environmental law and policy.

Eileen Hirst, Chief of Staff of the San Francisco Sheriff's Dept.

Eileen Hirst has been Chief of Staff of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department since 1991, serving under Sheriff Michael Hennessey. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Five Keys Charter High School, the first charter school in the nation to operate within a county jail system. Five Keys is named for the five most important elements of successful reentry after incarceration: education, employment, family, community and recovery. Ms. Hirst is Co-Chair of the JUSTIS Governance Council, which oversees San Francisco's information technology initiative to improve data collection and sharing among its criminal justice and public safety agencies.

Ms. Hirst graduated from Assumption College with an AB in Political Science and earned her JD from University of San Francisco School of Law. She is serving her second term as President of the San Francisco Municipal Executives Association, the collective bargaining agent for nearly 1000 City and County managers.