Governor Murphy Announces Appointments to Advisory Board of the Business office of the Corrections Ombudsperson

By Lisa D. Small 3 years ago

Governor Murphy Announces Appointments to Advisory Board of the Business of the Corrections Ombudsperson

TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy right now introduced the appointments of Tess Borden, Carolyn Chang, and former Excellent Court Judge Edward Neafsey to the Advisory Board of the Office environment of the Corrections Ombudsperson. The Advisory Board, which was founded below the Dignity for Incarcerated Key Caretaker Mother and father Act that Governor Murphy signed in January 2020, is liable for advising the Workplace of the Corrections Ombudsperson.

“I am very pleased to appoint these outstanding men and women to the Advisory Board of the Office environment of the Corrections Ombudsperson,” claimed Governor Murphy. “The Board’s operate and oversight is critically crucial in guaranteeing that the state’s inmate populace is taken care of with the humanity, regard, and dignity they are worthy of. I am assured that these nominees will serve honorably and provide tips for significantly necessary reform in our point out prisons.” 

Tess Borden is a Staff Lawyer at the ACLU-NJ, the place she is effective on a array of civil rights and civil liberties issues. Prior to becoming a member of the ACLU-NJ in 2017, Borden was the Aryeh Neier Fellow at the Countrywide ACLU and Human Rights Observe (HRW) and authored the 196-webpage ACLU/HRW report “Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States.” Borden has also labored for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the International Legal Tribunal for the previous Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, and HRW’s West Africa Division in Dakar, Senegal, as well as spending time right before regulation faculty as an immigration paralegal. Borden acquired her bachelor’s degree from Yale Faculty, exactly where she majored in French, and her law diploma from Harvard Regulation College, wherever she was a member of the Intercontinental Human Rights Clinic and an editor of the Harvard Human Legal rights Journal. She clerked for the Honorable George A. O’Toole, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Carolyn Chang is an legal professional who techniques family members legislation in Burlington County and is known statewide for her authorized acumen and passion for children and community company. As a former law clerk to the Honorable Judith Yaskin, PJFP, the Honorable Mary Ann Burgess, JSC and the Honorable J. Wilson Noden, JSC, Chang understands the worth of top by case in point and the necessity to mentor other attorneys in the proper follow of law. To that end, soon after many years of supplying individual counseling to youthful lawyers and sharpening her legal capabilities as a Barrister with the Thomas S. Forkin American Inn of Courts, Chang assisted located the Honorable Anne E. Thompson American Inn of Court docket, now recognized as the Honorable Marie White Bell American Inn of Court, wherever she presently serves as its Treasurer. In addition to her legal apply, Chang has shared her talents as a community servant in the potential of Mayor and Committeewoman for the Township of Westampton, New Jersey.  A resident of Westampton Township given that 2002, Ms. Chang was elected in 2010 to the Westampton Township governing human body and was sworn in as Mayor in January 2013 and served until eventually January 2016. Chang obtained her Bachelor of Arts and her Juris Health practitioner from Rutgers University.

Edward Neafsey is an adjunct professor at Rutgers Legislation School-Newark and has invested more than 33 decades in general public support at the county, condition, and federal ranges. He was an assistant prosecutor, general public defender, deputy attorney normal, assistant counsel to Governor Tom Kean, Assistant Commissioner for Enforcement at the NJDEP throughout the Florio administration, Performing County Prosecutor, first Condition Insurance policy Fraud Prosecutor, Inspector Normal, Acting Director of Point out Law enforcement Affairs, and 1st Assistant Lawyer Basic. After leaving the executive branch, he was a Superior Courtroom Choose in the civil and criminal divisions in Monmouth and Mercer Counties. Appointed by the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Neafsey served two phrases as Chair of the Court’s Minority Problems Subcommittee on Prison Justice and the Minority Defendant. Neafsey has firsthand expertise with prison oversight, obtaining prosecuted two big jail scenarios to victory. Soon after graduating Assumption College and Southwestern Regulation Faculty, Neafsey joined the U.S. Military as a Decide Advocate Normal attorney. He served as a Captain in the First Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas and in Germany. He was awarded an Military Commendation Medal for that company

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