Jacobson is treasurer of CCJ’s Board of Directors.
The author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration, Michael 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.
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