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NuLeadership is also planning a massive recruitment drive among New York's formerly incarcerated, a comprehensive curriculum at Medgar Evers for undergrads interested in criminal justice careers, new affiliate chapters in other cities, and a campaign to engage private enterprise in creating new manufacturing jobs in neighborhoods with high rates of incarceration.
"NuLeadership is challenging us to think about using innovative concepts," said Kirsten Levingston, director of the Criminal Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU. "By virtue of their experience, they're also bringing passion and a legitimacy to the process that has been largely missing from the public policy arena for much too long."
--Curtis Stephen
