Daniel Macallair
Daniel Macallair is a Practitioner-in-Residence in the Dept. of Criminal Justice Studies at SF State where he teaches courses on adult and juvenile corrections policy. He is also the Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ), a nonprofit organization founded in San Francisco, Calif. in 1986. CJCJ conducts advocacy, research, policy analysis, and program development to promote fair and humane justice policies that reduce incarceration and criminalization.
As one of the nation’s leading experts on criminal justice reform, Mr. Macallair has led reform initiatives in a number of states and jurisdictions. His expertise is in developing and implementing strategies that circumvent barriers to reform and instituting programs
that reduce incarceration by exposing abusive and ineffective practice.
Mr. Macallair’s innovative programs have received national recognition from the United States Department of Justice, and Harvard University’s Innovations in Government program. He received a Leadership Award from the State of Hawaii for initiating efforts to reform its youth corrections system. In 2016, Mr. Macallair received the Advocate of the Year award from the Pacific Juvenile Defender Association for his continued efforts to expose abusive conditions in California’s youth corrections system. He is a consultant to criminal and juvenile justice systems around the country and frequently provides expert assistance and testimony on correctional practices and juvenile justice policy. In July 2019 he was appointed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as the designated juvenile justice reform expert to the Committee to Close the San Francisco Juvenile Hall.
Mr. Macallair teaches courses in California adult and youth corrections policy, juvenile justice, community corrections and sentencing policy
His research interests include the analysis, advocacy, development, management, and implementation of criminal and juvenile justice reform strategies that reduce incarceration and promote a more humane justice system.
Mr. Macallair is the author of numerous publications, including his most recent book, After the Doors Were Locked: A History of Youth Corrections in California and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Reform. Roman and Littlefied.