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SJI Monday: Strategies for Criminal Justice Reform
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Lauren-Brooke Eisen directs the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she leads the organization’s work to end mass incarceration. Her team focuses on exposing the profound social and economic hardships that impact those who encounter the justice system while creating policies that ultimately shrink its size and scope. Previously, she was a senior program associate at the Vera Institute of Justice in the Center on Sentencing and Corrections. Ms. Eisen also served as an assistant district attorney in New York City in the Sex Crimes and Special Victims Bureau, Criminal Court Bureau, and Appeals Bureau, where she prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases. She has worked as a journalist in Laredo, Texas, covering crime and justice; served as an adjunct instructor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice; and taught a seminar on mass incarceration at Yale College. Eisen also published Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2017). She holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Ashok Chandran '15 is an assistant counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He works primarily in the litigation department, litigating cases involving structural problems in policing: persistent racial bias, patterns of excessive force, immunities, etc. As an example, he works on the ongoing NYPD stop and frisk litigation (in the remedial phase), a case involving the Louisville police department’s response to last summer’s racial justice protests, and a series of appeals about the scope of qualified immunity.
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L.B. Eisen
Director
Brennan Center for Justice
Lauren-Brooke (L.B.) Eisen directs the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she leads the organization’s work to end mass incarceration. Her team focuses on exposing the profound social and economic hardships that impact those who encounter the justice system while creating policies that ultimately shrink its size and scope. Previously, she was a senior program associate at the Vera Institute of Justice in the Center on Sentencing and Corrections. Ms. Eisen also served as an assistant district attorney in New York City in the Sex Crimes and Special Victims Bureau, Criminal Court Bureau, and Appeals Bureau, where she prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases. She has worked as a journalist in Laredo, Texas, covering crime and justice; served as an adjunct instructor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice; and taught a seminar on mass incarceration at Yale College. Eisen also published Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2017). She holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Ashok Chandran
Assistant Counsel
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Ashok Chandran '15 is an assistant counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He works primarily in the litigation department, litigating cases involving structural problems in policing: persistent racial bias, patterns of excessive force, immunities, etc. As an example, he works on the ongoing NYPD stop and frisk litigation (in the remedial phase), a case involving the Louisville police department’s response to last summer’s racial justice protests, and a series of appeals about the scope of qualified immunity.
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