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Welcome, Jacob Kang-Brown!

Please welcome our new Senior Researcher, Jacob Kang-Brown!

by Danielle Squillante, May 27, 2025

Jacob Kang-Brown

We’re excited to announce that Jacob Kang-Brown has joined our team as a Senior Researcher. In this role, he’ll research and write briefings and reports, help develop new projects, and provide additional support for the research team’s use of large datasets and quantitative analysis.

Before joining Prison Policy Initiative, Jacob was a Senior Researcher at the Vera Institute of Justice where he specialized in analyzing incarceration trends. His work has appeared in The Lancet Public Health, The New York Review of Books, Contexts, SSM-Population Health, The Atlantic, Dissent, USA Today, and American Jail Magazine, in addition to the Vera Institute of Justice. He holds a PhD in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine and bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College (Ill). Jacob has also worked for Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and the L.A. County Commission on Human Relations.

Welcome to the team, Jacob!

Related briefings:

  1. Welcome, Sarah Staudt! +
  2. Tenth-Anniversary Edition of The Whole Pie Report Provides the Big Picture of Mass Incarceration — and Busts 10 of the Most Persistent Myths about Prisons, Jails, and Crime +
  3. New resource: Contending with carveouts: how and why to resist charge-based exclusions in reforms +

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