The author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration, Jacobson spent most of the 1990s serving as New York City probation commissioner and correction commissioner under Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He also served as the city’s budget director and led the Vera Institute of Justice for eight years before joining CUNY in 2013.
We have accomplished a lot together in our first five years, but we are just getting started. Will you support the Council as we build bridges across ideological divides and craft consensus for solutions?
