Monique Dixon and Terry Hickey Part 2: There is no evidence supporting a new $100 million youth prison for youth charged as adults Story Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. And this is a continuing discussion about how to have a safer community […]
Author Archives: Monique Dixon and Terry Hickey
Monique L. Dixon, J.D., is the Director of the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program of OSI-Baltimore. She is responsible for developing, monitoring, and evaluating criminal and juvenile justice funding strategies for OSI-Baltimore, which seeks to reduce the overuse of incarceration as well as its social and economic costs. Prior to joining OSI-Baltimore, Dixon served as senior staff attorney at Advancement Project in Washington, D.C., a non-profit civil rights organization. She also co-authored several reports on zero tolerance school discipline policies that lead youth from schools to prisons.
Terry Hickey is the Executive Director of Community Law In Action, Inc., a nonprofit organization he founded in 1998. CLIA is dedicated to engaging youth as problem solvers and active citizens. Terry is an attorney who also teaches classes at the University of Maryland School of Law and UMBC, where he teaches courses on urban problem solving and legislative advocacy.
