Alabama Prison Crisis Acknowledgements and About the Authors

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Justice Strategies research team would like to convey our gratitude to Ethan Nadelmann, Asha Bandele and Gabriel Sayegh at the Drug Policy Alliance for their collegial support and generous sharing of knowledge and insights about drug policy reform-and for their brilliant and inspiring leadership across the nation on these important issues. We are also grateful to the policy advocates and activists whose untiring work is blazing new pathways to reform in Alabama and across the Southern United States.: Lisa Kung, Kenneth Glasgow, Kobi Little, and Rhonda Brownstein-and to the staff at the Southern Poverty Law Center, without whose help we could not have produced this report for timely release. And we are especially grateful to Raquiba LaBrie, Susan Tucker, William Johnston and the amazing staff at the Open Society Institute for their steadfast support of our policy research efforts.



ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Judith Greene is a criminal justice policy analyst. She is a research associate of the Justice Policy Institute and the Women's Prison Association. Over the past decade she has recieved a Soros Senior Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute and the Women's Prison Association. Over the past decade she has recieved a Soros Senior Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute, served as a research associate for the RAND Corporation, as a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School, and as director of the State-Centered Program for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. From 1985 to 1993 she was Director of Court Programs at the Vera Institute of Justice.

Ms. Greene's articles on criminal sentencing issues, police practices, and correctional policy have appeared in numerous publications, including The American Prospect, Corrections Today, Crime and Delinquency, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, The Federal Sentence Reporter, The Index on Censorship, Judicarture, The Justice Systems Journal, Overcrowded Times, Prison Legal News, The Rutgers Law Journal, and The Wake Forest Law Review.

Kevin Pranis is a criminal justice policy analyst and a campaign strategist. A past Soros Justice Fellow, Mr. Pranis has produced educational materials, training manuals, reports and white papers on topics that include corporate accountability, municipal bond finance, political educations, prison privatization and sentencing policy. His work has been covered in numerous publications, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.