📢 Truth Watch: Meet CJCJ’s Juvenile Justice Sentencing Planner, Carlos Simpson Sr.

Name & PGP: Carlos Simpson Sr, He and Him

Job Title: Sentencing Planner/​Case Manager Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP)

Behind the scenes fact about you: Even though I have spent the majority of my life on concrete, I really am a nature guy. Nothing like going to the beach, a river, lake or the woods and take of my shoes and get barefoot and recharge the soul.

How would you describe your job to a friend? The ultimate gift of righting my wrongs, I make living amends for all of the hurt and pain that I have caused growing up and to have the blessed opportunity to share my knowledge, wisdom and strength is a blessing. And to have an office in the same building that I had a jail cell is amazing.

Why is this work important to you? Because it’s a whole lot easier healing broken boys than broken men

Dreaming out loud: If you were given unlimited funds to build out part of your program, what would you create and why? I would train and hire 50 more men from the same upbringing and train and mold them so we could have an abundance of credible messengers that could relate to these youth and provide a safe place to talk about emotional intelligence and mental health.