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Human Rights First would like to thank Michele Deitch,
Kerri Battles, and Kelly Pratlett at The University of Texas at
Austin, The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, for their tremendous partnership on this event. We also appreciate the assistance of Andrea Black, Judy Greene, Bob Libal, Adan
Munoz, Annie Sovcik, Karin Tucker, Ana Yáñez-Correa, and all speakers who are generously sharing their time and expertise with us today.
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Human Rights First’s “Dialogues on Detention: Applying Lessons from Criminal Justice to the Immigration Detent ion System” will take place in four cities across the United States during 2012 and culminate in a Washington, D.C.-based conference in early
2013. The Dialogues will foster constructive discussion on parallel and overlapping challenges facing the U.S. immigration detention system and the U.S. criminal justice system. By facilitating an exchange of knowledge and best practices among experts, academics, elected leaders, government officials, advocates, and the private bar, as well as individuals who have experienced the system first-hand, we aim to help re-shape the national conversation on immigration detention, to find common ground among stakeholders in both fields, and to forge a constructive path forward on detention reform. Our objective is to secure reforms to the immigration detention system so that immigrants and asylum seekers are not detained unnecessarily and in ways that are inconsistent with human rights standards.
Join us again at University of California - Irvine School of Law on
September 24th, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor
School of Law on October 12th, and Loyola University New
Orleans College of Law on November 30th.
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 Dean Robert Hutchings, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
 Ruthie Epstein, Human Rights First
Introductory remarks from:
 Representative Jerry Madden (R-67), Chairman, Texas House Corrections
Committee
 Edna Yang, General Counsel, American Gateways
 Nazry and Hope Mustakim, formerly detained green card holder and his wife
Alternatives to detention and community-based release programs have been repeatedly demonstrated to lead to substantial cost savings and high compliance rates in both the immigration detention system and in pre-trial services programs in the criminal justice system. Currently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spends about $2 billion per year on detention, to house 429,000 individuals, and $72 million on alternatives for 23,000. Texas county jails hold about 64,000 individuals daily, almost 60 percent of whom are classified as pre-trial. Particularly at a time when local, state, and federal governments are all facing severe fiscal crises, the immigration detention and corrections systems could be decreasing spending on detention, and reallocating funds to increased investment in effective and rightsrespecting alternatives.
What are the elements of a successful alternatives program? What is the definition of success? What is the role of risk assessment tools in an alternatives program? Can bonds be used as assurance in a way that does not disadvantage individuals simply because they do not have money? How can alternatives save taxpayer dollars?
 Oren Root, Director, Center on Immigration and Justice, Vera Institute of Justice
 Jennifer Long, Executive Director, Casa Marianella (Austin)
 Carol Oeller, Director, Harris County (Texas) Pretrial Services
 Ana Yáñez-Correa, Ph.D., Executive Director, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
 Representative Jerry Madden (R-67), Chairman, Texas House Corrections
Committee
 Moderator: Scott Henson, author of the Texas criminal jus tice blog “Grits for
Breakfast”
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Detainees and inmates held by ICE, local jails, state prisons, the U.S. Marshals, and the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) all face a fundamental loss of liberty, whether the authority under which they are held is civil/administrative or criminal law, and whether they are awaiting hearings or have been convicted and sentenced. ICE holds in detention up to 8,000 immigrants daily in the state of Texas, including 3,000 in local jails. 64,000 non-ICE detainees are held in Texas jails each day, almost 60 percent of whom are pretrial, in addition to 141,000 in the state’s prison system.
BOP facilities in Texas account for an additional 35,000 inmates, including almost
14,000 in privately run facilities.
What is the legal framework for drawing distinctions among the conditions in “civil” detention, “pre-trial” detention, and incarceration? What are the appropriate operational distinctions? What conditions of confinement are necessary to serve the government’s purpose? What conditions respect the dignity and rights of the individuals being held in custody? What conditions ensure safety for detainees and inmates as well as officers and staff?
 Dora Schriro, Commissioner, New York City Department of Correction
 Kevin Landy, Assistant Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
Office of Detention Policy and Planning
 Barbara Hines, Clinical Law Professor, The University of Texas School of Law,
Co-Director, Immigration Clinic
 Steve J. Martin, attorney, consultant, former General Counsel, Texas prison system
 Moderator: Michele Deitch, Senior Lecturer, Lyndon B. Johnson School of
Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
What internal accountability mechanisms and external oversight structures are most effective to ensure that detention facilities are safe and humane and provide appropriate medical and mental health care? Should operational expectations for facilities be outlined in standards or in regulations? What oversight structures should exist when a private company operates a facility for the government, or when the federal government contracts with a local government facility? To what degree is routine monitoring of conditions necessary for all places of detention? What kinds of sanctions are most effective in ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, or contractual obligations?
 Dora Schriro, Commissioner, New York City Department of Correction
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 Brandon Wood, Incoming Executive Director, Texas Commission on Jail
Standards
 Dr. Bobby Cohen, former Director of Montefiore Rikers Island Health Services, member of New York City Board of Correction
 Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, Public Advocate, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations
 Moderator and Panelist: Michele Deitch, Senior Lecturer, Lyndon B. Johnson
School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
The performance of counsel in the immigration removal and criminal justice context can be critical for both the outcome of the proceedings and the efficiency/functioning of the courts – and individuals who are detained or incarcerated face even greater barriers to obtaining effective legal counsel. What models work best in Texas to ensure that indigent individuals facing criminal charges receive effective counsel?
What are the legal representation needs of detained immigrants in Texas, and are those needs being met? What models are most effective to connect qualified attorneys to individuals who need them, especially given the remote location of many detention facilities and jails in Texas? Where is funding and expertise most necessary?
 Denise Gilman, Clinical Law Professor, The University of Texas School of Law,
Co-Director, Immigration Clinic
 Jonathan Ryan, Executive Director, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) (San Antonio)
 Davi d González, partner, Sumpter & Gonzalez L.L.P. (Austin)
 Moderator: Karen T. Grisez, Public Service Counsel, Fried Frank (Washington,
D.C.), immediate past Chair of the ABA Commission on Immigration, current
Advisory Committee member
 Ruthie Epstein, Human Rights First
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Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
Bobby Cohen has worked for over thirty years as a physician, administrator, court expert, and federally- appointed monitor to improve the care and conditions of prisoners. After graduation from Princeton he was a community organizer in Kensington, Philadelphia. He graduated
Rush Medical College in Chicago and then trained in Internal Medicine at
Cook County Hospital.
Dr. Cohen was the Director of the Montefiore Rikers Island Health Services from 1981 through 1986. In
1986 he was appointed Vice President for Medical Operations of the New York City Health and
Hospitals Corporation. In 1989 he was appointed Director of the AIDS Center of St. Vincent's Hospital.
Dr. Cohen represented the American Public Health Association (APHA) on the Board of the National
Commission for Correctional Health Care for 17 years, through 2010. He is currently appointed by the
New York City Council to represent them on the New York City Board of Correction. Dr. Cohen has served as a Federal Court Monitor overseeing efforts to improve medical care for prisoners in Florida
( Costello v. Wainwright ) and Ohio ( Austin et al. v. Wilkinson). He is currently appointed as a Federal
Monitor in New York State (Milburn v. Coughlin ), and Michigan ( Hadix v. Caruso) . He is also appointed to monitor the care of all prisoners living with HIV in the state of Connecticut ( Doe v. Meachum).
Dr. Cohen practices internal medicine in NYC. He is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine of the New York University School of Medicine.
Senior Lecturer, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at
Austin
Michele Deitch is a Senior Lecturer at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of
Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches graduate level courses in juvenile justice and criminal justice policy. She is considered one of the cou ntry’s leading experts on independent oversight of correctional institutions, the rights of prisoners, institutional reform litigation, prison privatization, and the management of juvenile offenders. She is trained as a lawyer, and has spent her 26-year career working on prison and jail-related issues in a variety of capacities. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s subcommittee on correctional oversight, and also recently served on the ABA’s Task Force that helped develop Civil
Immigration Detention Standards. She was also the original drafter of the
ABA’s newly adopted standards on the legal treatment of prisoners.
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Professor Deitch has provided featured testimony on the correctional oversight issue before the
National Priso n Rape Elimination Commission and the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s
Prisons. She has authored and co-authored numerous works on this topic, including several pieces in
Opening Up a Closed World: A Sourcebook on Prison Oversight , 30 Pace Law Review (2010).
Prior to entering academia, Professor Deitch served as a consultant to many state and local jurisdictions to help reduce prison and jail crowding through development of alternatives to incarceration and to help address prisoner safety issues. She also served as a full-time courtappointed monitor of conditions in the Texas prison system, in the landmark class action case of Ruiz v.
Estelle . In the early 1990’s, she served as General Counsel to the Texas Senate Criminal Justice
Committee an d as Policy Director of the Texas Punishment Standards Commission (the state’s sentencing commission).
She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.Sc. in psychology from Oxford University, and a B.A. from Amherst College.
Researcher & Advocate, Refugee Protection Program, Human Rights First
Ruthie Epstein holds a Master’s of International Affairs from Columbia University and an A.B. in history from Washington University in St. Louis. Based in New
York City, she works as Researcher & Advocate in the Refugee Protection
Program at Human Rights First, with a focus on immigration detention and U.S. domestic asylum policy. Ms. Epstein is the author of “Jails and Jumpsuits:
Transforming the U.S. Immigration Detention System – A Two-Year Review,” released in October 2011. She presented the preliminary findings of this report in
August 2011 at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Ms.
Epstein has also worked extensively on the issue of Iraqi displacement and wrote the report “Promises to the Persecuted: The Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act”
(2009). Previously, she helped to run Human Rights First’s pro bono legal representation program for indigent asylum seekers in New York and New Jersey.
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Clinical Law Professor and Co-Director of the Immigration Law Clinic, The University of Texas
School of Law
Denise Gilman teaches and co-directs the Immigration Clinic after having joined the clinical faculty at The University of Texas School of Law in the fall of 2007. Professor Gilman received her undergraduate degree with honors in political science from Northwestern University. She received her law degree from Columbia University School of Law, where she served on the Law
Review, was elected president of the Student Senate and received the
Rosenmann award for leadership and public interest scholarship. Professor
Gilman also has an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. Professor
Gilman clerked for Judge Thomas M. Reavley, at the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is fluent in Spanish.
Professor Gilman has written and practiced extensively in the international human rights and immigrants' rights fields. From 2000 to 2005, Professor Gilman was Director of the Immigrant and
Refugee Rights Project at the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. At the Lawyers' Committee, Professor Gilman coordinated the representation of political asylum applicants by pro bono attorneys and engaged in advocacy on issues of significance to the newcomer community.
She also investigated and litigated individual and impact cases involving law enforcement abuses against immigrants and discrimination against newcomers in housing and employment.
From 1995 to 2000, Professor Gilman served as Human Rights Specialist at the Inter-American
Commission of Human Rights at the Organization of American States and then Director of the Mexico
Project at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). Professor Gilman made her transition from legal practice to clinical teaching through completion of a two-year clinical teaching fellowship at the Georgetown University Law Center from 2005 to 2007. At Georgetown, Professor
Gilman co-taught an asylum law clinic.
In 2003, Professor Gilman received an "Excellence in Lawyering" award from the Mexican American
Legal Defense and Educational Fund. In 2005, she received the Community Outreach Recognition and
Opportunity ("CORO") Award from the D.C. Court of Appeals. Professor Gilman served on the board of the Central American Resource Center in Washington, D.C.
She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Professor Gilman's recent scholarship includes: A "Bilingual" Approach to Language Rights , 24 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 1
(2011); Seeking Breaches in the Wall: An International Human Rights Law Challenge to the Texas-
Mexico Border Wall , 46 Tex. Int'l L.J. 257 (2011); Calling the United States' Bluff: How Sovereign
Immunity Undermines the United States' Claim to an Effective Domestic Human Rights System , 95
Geo. L.J. 591 (2007).
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Founding Partner, Sumpter & Gonzalez L.L.P.
David Gonzalez is the founding partner of Sumpter & Gonzalez, a criminal defense firm whose commitment to social justice involves defending against serious criminal accusations for both private and indigent clients. The Firm’s mission is to serve clients beyond the legal issues of their case and work to address the underlying reasons a client is involved in the criminal justice system. The vision of Sumpter & Gonzalez is simple: getting arrested should be the beginning of a new perspective in life, not the end of it.
In 2011 and 2010, Sumpter & Gonzalez was a finalist in the Austin Chamber of
Commerce Awards in the “Innovation” category. In 2008, David was awarded the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year award by the Austin Young Lawyers
Association, and was a finalist in the American Bar Association’s National Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year & in the local Austin Under 40 awards.
David froze to death at Dartmouth College, then went out West to Stanford Law School in search of warmer weather. David met his wife, Corinne, on the first day of law school, but she pretty much ignored him for the next eighteen months until he was able to convince her to date him midway through their second year.
The two of them juggle their law practice with four kids and seven chickens in tow. In his free time,
David enjoys teaching at the law school, helping coach his daughter Ramona's soccer team, and embarrassing his kids in public.
Public Service Counsel, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Karen Grisez is full time Public Service Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Karen is the immediate past
Chair of the ABA Commission on Immigration and a current member of its
Advisory Committee. She is also a former co-chair of the ABA Section of
Litigation ’s Immigration Litigation Committee. She is a member of the American
Immigration Lawyers Association, and co-chair of the DC AILA Chapter's Pro
Bono Committee, as well as a former Trustee of the American Immigration
Council. Karen also serves on the board s of the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights
(CAIR) Coalition, the Center for Migration Studies, the Washington Council of
Lawyers, and is a Trustee of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil
Rights & Urban Affairs.
Ms. Grisez received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and her J.D. from the
Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America. She has successfully represented numerous asylum applicants and other immigrants before the Asylum Offices, Immigration Judges, the BIA and in
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Author of the Texas Criminal Justice Blog “Grits for Breakfast”
Clinical Law Professor and Co-Director of the Immigration Law Clinic, The University of Texas at
Austin School of Law
Barbara Hines co-directs the immigration clinic at The University of Texas at
Austin School of Law. Professor Hines has practiced in the field since 1975 and is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. She has received numerous awards for her work including the 1992 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Jack
Wasserman Award for Excellence in Litigation; the 1993 AILA Texas Chapter
Litigation Award; the 2002 Texas Law Fellowships Excellence in Public Interest
Award; the 2007 AILA Elmer Fried Excellence in Teaching Award; the 2009
MALDEF Excellence in Legal Services Award; and the 2010 National Lawyer's Guild Carol King Award.
In 2000, she was named one of the 100 best lawyers in the state by the Texas Lawyer publication.
Professor Hines was a Fulbright scholar in Argentina in 1996 and focused her research on Argentine immigration law. She received a second Fulbright award in 2004 and taught a course on U.S. immigration law and policy at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Professor Hines served as the first Co-Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of
Texas, Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National
Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. She has litigated many issues relating to the constitutional and statutory rights of immigrants in federal and immigration courts including the lawsuit leading to the closure of the Hutto immigrant family detention center. She frequently lectures and writes on topics related immigration law and immigrants rights.
Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Robert Hutchings is dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at
The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the LBJ School in March 2010,
Hutchings was Diplomat in Residence in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was also faculty chair of the
Master in Public Policy program and served for five years as assistant dean of the school.
During a public service leave from Princeton University in 2003-05, he was
Chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council in Washington. His combined academic and diplomatic career has included service as Fellow and Director of International Studies at the Woodrow
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Wilson International Center for Scholars, Director for European Affairs with the National Security
Council, and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State, with the rank of ambassador.
Ambassador Hutchings also served as deputy director of Radio Free Europe and on the faculty of the
University of Virginia, and has held adjunct appointments at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is author of
At the End of the American Century and of American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War, which was published in German as als der Kalte Krieg zu Ende war , along with many articles and book chapters on European and transatlantic affairs.
While chairing the National Intelligence Council, he directed the yearlong “NIC 2020” project resulting in a report called Mapping the Global Future, examining the forces that will shape world affairs out to the year 2020. His current research springs from that project and aims at developing a global policy agenda, based on a series of structured strategic dialogues over the past two years with leaders in
China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa, and a dozen other key countries around the world.
Hutchings is a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States and of the Foundation for a Civil
Society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the British-North American Committee, a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) Executive
Committee, and founding president of the Austin Council on Foreign Affairs. A recipient of the National
Intelligence Medal and the U.S. State Department Superior Honor Award, he was also awarded the
Order of Merit (with Commander's Cross) of the Republic of Poland for his contributions to Polish freedom. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and received his Ph.D. from the
University of Virginia.
Assistant Director for the Office of Detention Policy and Planning, U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
Kevin Landy is Assistant Director for the Office of Detention Policy and
Planning (ODPP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
Department of Homeland Security. ODPP leads ICE’s efforts to overhaul the immigration detention system, an effort which requires extensive collaboration and consultation with both internal and external stakeholders.
Prior to joining ICE, Mr. Landy served for nearly fourteen years on Senator
Joseph I. Lieberman’s staff on the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs, and was the Committee’s Chief Counsel from 2007 to
2010. During that time he staffed Senator Lieberman on immigration and border security matters, among other issues, and drafted immigration detention reform legislation known as the “Secure and Safe Detention and Asylum Act.”
Prior to working for Senator Lieberman, Mr. Landy was in private practice for two years at the litigation firm of Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. and spent one year in Cambodia working for the
Cambodian Court Reform Project, a program run by the International Human Rights Law Group. For two years before law school, he helped to monitor the Texas Department of Corrections on behalf of
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Kevin graduated from Amherst College in 1988 and from Yale Law School in 1993.
Executive Director, Casa Marianella
Jennifer has been the Director of Casa Marianella’s Emergency Shelter since
1998. She received a degree in Social Philosophy from UC Santa Cruz and a
Masters degree in ESL from The University of Texas at Austin.
Public Advocate for Enforcement and Removal Operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
Andrew Lorenzen-Strait is the public advocate for Enforcement and Removal
Operations (ERO), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Washington, D.C.
Prior to this position, he served as the senior advisor for ERO’s Detention
Management Division, where he advised on policy oversight for the administrative custody of an average of 400,000 detainees each year. He also served as a lead advisor on ICE’s efforts to reform the current immigration civil detention system.
Mr. Lorenzen-Strait, who began his career with ICE in 2008, has an extensive background in federal law enforcement and immigration policy. He previously served as the agency’s chief public engagement officer in ICE’s Office of State, Local, and Tribal Coordination and as the special assistant for policy and outreach in ICE Office of Policy. Mr. Lorenzen-Strait has worked in a variety of federal law enforcement agencies, including service as a senior analyst for the U.S. Secret Service and as a presidential management fellow.
Mr. Lorenzen-Strait holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California at
Irvine, a juris doctorate with an emphasis in child advocacy from Whittier Law School, and a certificate in national security leadership and decision-making from the U.S. National Defense University. In 2007,
Mr. Lorenzen-Strait was names the Maryland Attorney of the Year for providing pro bono services to
Community Legal Services of Prince George’s County.
Mr. Lorenzen-Strait is a member of the Maryland U.S. Supreme Court bars.
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Chairman, Texas House Corrections Committee
Representative Madden and his wife, Barbara, a retired nurse, have been married
47 years. They are the proud parents of three adult children - Jerry, Stephanie and Kristina - and have six grandchildren. Upon graduation from West Point with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Jerry spent six years in the Army, including one year in Vietnam and two years in Germany, before bringing his family to
Richardson, Texas, in 1971.
As a 41 year resident of Collin County, Jerry has been involved in numerous veterans' and community organizations, holding positions such as President of the Collin County
School Board, and Chairman of the Collin County Hospital Board as well as serving on the
Advisory Board of the Plano Chamber of Commerce. He was instrumental in launching the Collin
County Caring for Children program, a joint venture between Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas and the private sector. Dedicated to the Republican philosophy, Jerry was elected Precinct Chairman in his local neighborhood in 1974, and Chairman of the Republican Party of Collin County in 1984.
First elected to the Texas Legislature in November of 1992 and now in his tenth term, Madden is
Chairman of the House Committee on Corrections, which he chaired from 2005 to 2009, as well as a member of the Select Committee on Election Contest, the Redistricting Committee, and the
Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee. Prior committee appointments have included
Calendars, Public Education, House Select Committee on Public School Finance, State Affairs,
Urban Affairs, Public Safety, Elections, State, Federal and International Relations, and Rules and
Resolutions.
Different legislative initiatives for which he has been commended range from the highly successful
2007 criminal justice system reforms which sought to divert individuals from prison through mental health and substance abuse treatment programs, provide more opportunities in prison for rehabilitation, and properly utilize probation and parole mechanisms to avoid greater costs if new prisons were built; from establishing a state virtual education system to supporting participation of military voters in elections; from advocating for victim's rights to instituting judicial campaign fairness. He has been honored for his work in a variety of policy areas by organizations including the American Legion-Dept. of Texas, Texas Common Cause, Texas Association of Business,
Texas Library Association, Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Texas Home School Coalition,
American Family Association of Texas, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas Criminal Justice
Coalition, the Texas Corrections Association and Texas Access to Justice
Commission/Foundation.
In wake of the 2007 Legislative Session, Rep. Madden was designated by Texas Monthly as one of its 10 Best Legislators. While this honor is certainly notable, Rep. Madden was the first recipient of the 2007 Carmen Miller Michael Mental Health Advocate Prism Award, was recognized as a
University of Texas at Dallas Distinguished Alumnus in March of 2009, was named to the Board of
Directors of the Council of State Governments’ Justice Center in April of 2009, and served from
July 2009 to July 2010 as Chairman of the Law and Criminal Justice Committee formed by the
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National Council of State Legislatures. In June of 2010, Rep. Madden was appointed to serve on the Texas State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision, and in July of 2010 was named co-chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Sentencing and Corrections Work Group.
On November 18, 2010, Rep. Madden was honored at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C., as a consequence of being named one of Governing magazine’s 2010 Public Officials of the Year, an award he shared with Sen. Whitmire and six other individuals from across the country. On August
5, 2011, the American Legislative Exchange Council honored Rep. Madden with their "Legislator of the Year" award at the organization’s 38th annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. He chaired ALEC’s
Public Safety and Elections Task Force from January 2011 through April of 2012, and serves as well on the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit which is charged with exploring ways to avoid wrongful convictions.
Jerry Madden continues to exhibit the commitment and drive which he first brought to the
Legislature. Always accessible to his constituents and sensitive to the changing needs of Texas and District 67, Representative Madden seeks to promote limited government, fiscal responsibility, safe and thriving communities and successful families and businesses.
Attorney, Consultant, Private Practice, Former General Counsel, Texas Prison System
Steve J. Martin is a career corrections professional currently engaged in private practice as a corrections consultant. He is actively involved in a variety of roles as a consulting expert, federal court monitor and court appointed expert in 15 states plus the American Virgin Islands. He served as a corrections expert for the U.S.
Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, for approximately 15 years and currently serves as an expert for the Department of Homeland Security, Office of
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. He has worked as a consultant in more than forty states and has visited or inspected more than 700 confinement facilities in the
United States, Northern Ireland, Guam, Saipan, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the
American Virgin Islands. He has served or currently serves as a federal court monitor in three prison systems and four large metropolitan jail systems. His experience in juvenile confinement systems includes such state systems as New York, Texas, Ohio, and California.
During more than 39 years in the criminal justice field, he has worked as a correctional officer, probation and parole officer, and prosecutor. He is the former General Counsel/Chief of Staff of the
Texas prison system as well as having served gubernatorial appointments in Texas on both a sentencing commission and a council for mentally impaired offenders. He coauthored a book on Texas prisons ( Texas Prisons, The Walls Came Tumbling Down, Texas Monthly Press, 1987), and has written numerous articles on criminal justice issues. He has served as an adjunct/visiting faculty member at seven different universities including the University of Texas School of Law and Queens University,
Belfast.
Martin has been continuously involved in institutional reform litigation since 1981. This work includes extensive experience in the largest confinement operations (prison, jails, juvenile facilities) in the United
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States. It includes work as an agency counsel, special assistant attorney general, consultant to state agencies and legislative bodi es, defendants’ and plaintiffs’ expert, court monitor, and principal investigator for a variety of governmental agencies. He has appeared/testified before a large variety of oversight entities including the U. S. Congress. He has extensive experience in the development of correctional standards, policies, procedures and guidelines for confinement operations across the
United States. He currently resides in Austin. Martin graduated with a B.S. in Criminology &
Corrections, and an M.A. in Correctional Administration from Sam Houston State University, and received his J.D. from University of Tulsa Law School.
Formerly Detained Green Card Holder and His Wife
Nazry, a Permanent Resident from Singapore since 1992, was held in immigration detention for 10 months at the South Texas Detention Complex in
Pearsall, Texas, last year. Due to laws passed in 1996 Nazry was subjected to mandatory detention and could not be released on bond. After ten months of severe hardship and separation, unrelenting advocacy by his wife, community, and legal team resulted in Nazry being released from detention. Nazry is back home in Waco; however, his story is exemplary of the injustices immigrants face in detention daily. He and his wife Hope, a social work student at Baylor
University, have since then become passionate advocates for immigration reform.
Director, Harris County Pretrial Services
Carol Oeller started working for Harris County Pretrial Services in 1979, a year after she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from
Long Island University. She became the assistant director in 1985, and the director in 1999. Ms. Oeller served on the National Association of Pretrial
Services Agencies (NAPSA) Board of Directors as an at-large director from 1989 to 1992, and as vice-president from 1995 to 1997. She chaired the Association’s
Membership Committee from 1991 to 1997, helped produce the Third Edition of the Association ’s Release Standards, completed in 2004, and frequently serves as faculty at the Association’s Training Institutes. She received NAPSA’s highest honor, the Ennis J. Olgiati award, in 1994.
In 1992 Governor Ann Richards appointed her to the Texas Council on Offenders with Mental
Impairments (now known as the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Mental or Medical
Impairments). She chaired this Council for seven of her eight years of service. During 1998 and 1999, she co-chaired the Harris County Mental Health Association ’s Criminal Justice Workgroup, a collaborative effort that led to the Houston Police Department's implementation of a Crisis Intervention
Team. In 2005 the Pretrial Justice Institute in Washington, D.C. asked her to join its Board of Trustees, a position she held until 2011.
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Ms. Oeller has provided technical assistance on projects sponsored by the Bureau of Justice
Assistance (BJA), and she has been a peer reviewer on pretrial services related documents published by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), BJA, and several professional associations. Since 1999 she has been an active member of a small network of pretrial services administrators established by NIC to examine issues and challenges of the pretrial services field. In 2012, the American Leadership Forum invited her to participate in its fourth, year-long class dedicated to strengthening the skills of leaders in the criminal justice community.
Director, Center on Immigration and Justice, Vera Institute of Justice
Oren Root, Director of the Center on Immigration and Justice at the Vera
Institute of Justice, has been affiliated with Vera or its spinoff organizations since
1992. He was national director from 1997 to 2000 of Vera's Appearance
Assistance Program (AAP), a successful and rigorously evaluated demonstration alternative to detention program for immigrants facing deportation.
From 2001 to 2007 he was deputy director of the Police Assessment Resource
Center (PARC), which fosters police accountability and civilian oversight of law enforcement. He previously served as interim director of Vera's Bureau of
Justice Assistance in South Africa and as director of the Court Employment Project, an alternative to incarceration program for young felony offenders run by the Center for Alternative Sentencing and
Employment Services (CASES). From 1973 to 1992, Oren was a criminal defense lawyer, both as a public defender and in private practice, in New York City. He is a graduate of Columbia College and
Fordham Law School.
Executive Director, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
Jonathan Ryan is the Executive Director of the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal
Services (RAICES), and serves as co-chair of the South Texas Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force.
RAICES represents families and individuals seeking protection pursuant to U.S. immigration law, including unaccompanied children, refugees and victims of crime. Previously, he worked as a staff attorney at American Gateways (then called PAPA) where he helped to establish the Legal Orientation
Program for adults in DHS detention. Jonathan is licensed to practice in Texas and is a graduate of
The University of Texas School of Law.
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Commissioner, New York City Department of Correction
Dora B. Schriro is the Commissioner of the New York City Department of
Correction. Commissioner Schriro served previously as Special Advisor to U.S.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and was the first
Director of the Office of Detention Policy and Planning within U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement.
Commissioner Schriro also served as Director of the Arizona Department of
Corrections and the Missouri Department of Corrections. Dr. Schriro was Warden and, later, Commissioner of the St. Louis City Division of Corrections. She is the only correctional administrator in the country to have led two state and two city departments of corrections. She has taught graduate criminal justice and correction law throughout her career and is published in the areas of re-entry and criminal and civil systems reform.
Dr. Schriro was recognized by her peers as the country’s top correctional administrator in 1999; received the National Governors Association Distinguished Service to State Government Award in
2006; and earned the Innovations in American Government Award for the comprehensive pre-release strategy, Getting Ready , in 2008. In 2012, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder presented Schriro with the Allied Professional Award for her leadership in the field of Victim Services. She is a graduate of
Northeastern University (BA cum laude), University of Massachusetts-Boston (MS), Columbia
University (EdD) and St. Louis University (JD).
Incoming Executive Director, Texas Commission on Jail Standards
Brandon began working with the Texas Commission on Jail Standards in 1999 as a Planner, assisting counties in identifying jail population trends, preparing needs analyses and developing/reviewing construction plans. Brandon has served as the agency’s Assistant Director since August 2007 and was selected in August to be the next Executive Director as of October 1. Throughout his tenure with the agency he has assisted with administrative oversight and operations, facilitated communications with local officials to find solutions for minimum jail standards, interacted with the Governor’s office, Legislative Budget Board, and numerous state officials regarding the functional aspects, goals and responsibilities of the
Commission and the impact on counties. Brandon is a Texas A&M University graduate, class of 199 5, where he was selected as the outstanding company commander for the Navy/Marine ROTC unit and was awarded an LBJ Congressional Internship and worked for Rep. Bill Sarpaulis in 1993.
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Executive Director, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
Ana Yáñez-Correa was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States at the age of twelve where she worked as a domestic worker with her mother until she entered college. She has earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and a
Masters Degree in Public Administration; she also holds a Ph.D. in Policy and
Planning in Education Administration, focusing her dissertation on the school-toprison pipeline.
Throughout every stage of her education and career, Ana has taken an active leadership role in the community. She served as Chief of Staff for a State Representative during the State Legislative
Session in 2001 and focused on criminal justice-related policies and immigrant rights. In 2002, Ana became Policy Director for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) of Texas, where she developed and advocated for LULAC’s legislative platform during the 2003 State Legislative Session – with a special emphasis on criminal justice – as well as during the three special sessions on redistricting, and a special session on school finance, with a special emphasis on criminal justice.
In 2005, Ana became the Project Director for TCJC’s Solutions for Sentencing & Incarceration Project, which focuses on promoting proven, pro-family criminal justice policies that save taxpayers money and improve the safety of Texas communities. During the 2007 state legislative session, Ana was formally honored by the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate for “working toward real solutions to the problems facing the Texas cri minal justice system.” During Texas’ 2009 and 2011 legislative sessions, Ana was instrumental in educating and organizing key stakeholders about the importance of adopting policies on fair defense, prison diversion, probation and parole reform, re-entry, and overall criminal and juvenile justice efficiency.
Since late 2005, Ana has been the Executive Director of TCJC, successfully fostering relationships among a wide range of coalition partners, criminal justice practitioners, law enforcement groups, civil rights organizations, and other community members, allowing TCJC to promote policies that serve all facets of society.
General Counsel, American Gateways
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