Jerome G. Miller

Jerome Gilbert Miller, who lived from 1931 to 2015, was an American social worker, academic and public sector corrections administrator recognized as an authority on reforming juvenile and adult correctional systems. He gained national prominence in the early 1970s by closing Massachusetts's juvenile reformatories and replacing them with community-based alternatives, becoming a leading figure in the movement to reduce reliance on institutional confinement for young offenders and for people with developmental disabilities. He went on to co-found the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives.