Jerome G. Miller
| Jerome G. Miller | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jerome Gilbert Miller December 8, 1931 Wahpeton, North Dakota |
| Died | August 7, 2015 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Maryknoll Seminary, Loyola University Chicago, The Catholic University of America |
| Occupation | Social service administrator & reformer, clinical social worker, author |
| Known for | Reform of juvenile and adult corrections systems and advocacy for alternatives to incarceration and institutionalization |
| Spouse(s) | Charlene Coleman Miller |
| Website |
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Jerome Gilbert Miller (December 8, 1931 – August 7, 2015) was an American social worker who was an authority on the reform of juvenile and adult corrections systems. He was a prominent advocate for alternatives to incarceration for offenders as well as for the de-institutionalization of individuals with developmental disabilities. His career involved university teaching, administration of juvenile justice services for three states, clinical work with offenders and advocacy for systemic change in public sector correctional services. Miller's work first drew national attention for his leadership in closing several juvenile reformatories in Massachusetts in the early 1970s. Miller went on to emerge as a prominent national advocate, administrator and educator working for systemic change in public sector corrections and disability service delivery systems. He was the co-founder of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives.
Jerome Gilbert Miller was born on December 8, 1931 and grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota. His parents were George Miller, a high school music teacher, and the former Beatrice Butts. He earned academic degrees from Maryknoll Seminary, Glen Ellyn, Il (B.A., 1954), Loyola University Chicago (M.S.W., 1957) and The Catholic University of America (D.S.W., 1965). After his undergraduate studies, he spent a year in a Maryknoll novitiate in Bedford, Massachusetts. Miller's doctoral studies concentrated in psychiatric social work, and he was qualified as a licensed clinical social worker.
Miller was an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Ohio State University, when in 1969 he was chosen by Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent to serve as the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS).
Within three years of leading DYS, Miller had shut down the state's two juvenile reformatories in favor of community based alternatives to incarceration. The first closure involving Lyman School for Boys in 1971, caught many juvenile justice professionals in the state by surprise. Lyman School was the first reformatory for delinquent adolescent boys to be established in the United States. Anticipating the possible closure of the Massachusetts Industrial School for Boys at Shirley, various forces tried to mobilize against it, but Miller was successful in closing the school in 1972. Highly controversial at the time, and still debated today, the basic deinstitutionalization reforms implemented by Miller in the state’s juvenile justice services forty years ago are still in place today.
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