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New John Jay President Hopes to Fill ‘Innovation Void’ She Says ‘Justice’ Left

By MARK TOOR
Posted 8/7/17

The new President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice envisions expanding the school’s role so that it leads the national conversation on innovations in the courts, correction and policing now that she claims the U.S. Department of Justice has essentially bowed out.

Charging that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was moving the clock back on justice issues by decades—“I’d say to the fifties”—John Jay is well-positioned to step up, said Karol Mason, who served as an Assistant Attorney General under President Barack Obama.

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