Andrew R. Klein - Death before Sentencing: Ending Rampant Suicide, Overdoses, Brutality, and Malpractice in Americas Jails

Andrew R. Klein is a senior scientist for criminal justice for Advocates Human Potential, Inc. (AHP). His areas of expertise include substance abuse, criminal justice, domestic violence, court administration, and institutional and community corrections. For the past decade, he has directed training and technical assistance for prison and jail substance use disorder treatment programs throughout the United States and U.S. territories. In this position, he has championed medication-assisted treatment and the use of Medicaid expansion resources for aftercare. Before joining AHP, Klein served as a Massachusetts chief probation officer in an adult and juvenile court, creating the first domestic violence court in the county, as well as model restitution programming. He is the author of Alternative Sentencing, Intermediate Sanctions, and Probation; The Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Violence; and Abetting Abusers: What Police, Prosecutors, and Courts Arent Doing to Protect Americas Women, also from Rowman & Littlefield. Klein obtained a PhD in law, policy, and society from Northeastern University and a BA from Harvard University.

Jessica L. Klein is a rape crisis and domestic violence victim advocate for Beth Israel Hospital, New York, providing advocacy, counseling, safety planning, and service referrals to patients admitted to Emergency Department after experiencing sexual assault or intimate partner violence. She is also a rape crisis counselor on a hotline for the Anti-Violence Project, a New Yorkbased organization that services LGBTQ and HIV-affected people across New York City. She has provided training at the Judicial Domestic Violence Training for Hawaiian Judges, training judges on the basic warning signs/components of intimate partner violence. She is also a contributor for Thomson-Wests National Bulletin on Domestic Violence Prevention.

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