Leonard W. Engel, Esq.
Managing Associate for Policy
email: lengel [@] crjustice.org
tel: (617) 482-2520 ext. 129
Len Engel is the Managing Associate for Policy at CJI. Mr. Engel has been working in criminal and juvenile justice public policy for close to 20 years. Since joining CJI Len’s primary focus has been on Massachusetts public policy related to offender reentry. He has managed two recent projects and co-authored two reports with the Boston Foundation examining the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) system. Mr. Engel managed the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Policy Briefing Book project that produced policy analyses of key justice issues for the 2006 gubernatorial candidates. He also managed the Crime and Justice Institute Reentry Roundtables project sponsored by the Executive Office of Public Safety that examined three areas of offender reentry. Len presents to various government and non-government audiences and frequently testifies on criminal and juvenile justice matters before the Massachusetts legislature.
Before joining CJI, Mr. Engel spent 18 months working in the Massachusetts State Senate. Prior to going to the Massachusetts State House, Mr. Engel spent 16 years in the Connecticut criminal and juvenile justice system with the Connecticut Correctional Ombudsman where he managed a caseload and directed the organization’s government relations activity. Mr. Engel was also an editor of the Connecticut Prisoner Rights Manual, a member of the Board of Advisors to the Yale Law School Prison Clinic, an advisor to the Connecticut Law Revision Commission’s Habeas Corpus study, and a member of the prison issues sub-committee of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.
