
Katy Naples-Mitchell
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Katy Naples-Mitchell is the Program Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. She co-authored an amicus brief in the Mattis case in her capacity as special litigation advisor to the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School.
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Mass. highest court decision shows how neuroscience can shape the treatment of young offenders
These young people were sentenced to die in prison for the reckless, impetuous acts characteristic of their youth, often in situations involving peer influence, writes Katy Naples-Mitchell.