“Of course, victims have rights and the perpetrators need punishment, but they also need to get well. If you can address the underlying addiction, you can prevent them from committing another crime. The options that you have as a prosecutor were somewhat limited and we had to do more work upstream in…”— Joe Kennedy III, thepolitic.orgTagged: Victims, perpetrators, criminal justice reform, Mental Health, Addiction
“I had spent a lot of time in law school in a legal aid clinic doing legal services work, and I saw how important our court system was and how critical it is that people have access to adequate representation. I spent one of my summers interning in a district attorney’s office and saw how critical it…”— Joe Kennedy III, thepolitic.orgTagged: Law School, legal aid, District Attorney
“I wasn’t quite ready for a desk job when I was finishing up school. A bunch of my classmates were going into I-Banking and management consulting jobs, and I just wasn’t ready to sit behind a desk. I wanted to go out in the world, and I figured it was a good time to see what else was out there. I’ve…”— Joe Kennedy III, thepolitic.orgTagged: Banking, Management, peace corps, Management, Consulting