JSG Personnel
Shelley Zavlek, M. Ed., J.D.
Ms. Zavlek has over 25 years of experience in justice system and facility administration and planning, law and education. Currently, Ms. Zavlek is the President of Justice Solutions Group, a company that specializes in planning programs, services, and detention and correctional facilities for adults and juveniles. Ms. Zavlek has broad experience working with state, county and Native American Tribes to plan and program new detention and correctional facilities, and to provide a full range of services to assist clients in the process of activating and transitioning to their new facilities. Ms. Zavlek spent seven years as Assistant Commissioner for Operations and Facility Management (acting) and Executive Director of Capital and Operational Planning for the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice, where she oversaw a $64 million facility expansion initiative.
Anthony Jones, J.D.
Mr. Jones began his career in 1993 at the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). While at DJJ, Mr. Jones worked to oversee the construction of two new juvenile detention facilities and the subsequent operational and transitional planning process to activate those facilities. Mr. Jones also worked to develop a number of community-based non-secure detention facilities while at DJJ. After leaving DJJ, Mr. Jones practiced law for six years. As a trial attorney with the Department of the Treasury, Office of Chief Counsel and the firm of Ellenoff, Grossman, Schole & Cyruli, Mr. Jones developed an understanding of the justice system and large-scale project management, which he brings to his work at JSG. He works with clients to negotiate and draft inter/intra-governmental agreements for the provision of programs and services and studies local justice system needs to develop strategies that build on existing resources. Mr. Jones is responsible for a wide range of services, from drafting client contracts to developing and delivering workshops and on-site training, teaching jurisdictions how to manage the process of planning for, constructing and operating new correctional facilities.
Daniel B. Ryan , J.D.
Dan Ryan served as a staff member of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in the Probation and Pretrial Services Division as Chief of the Program Services Branch and later as Chief of Operations.
Following his retirement in 1996 he was employed as an independent consultant by a number of Federal, state, and local jurisdictions in the areas of probation, pretrial services, community policing, community prosecution, judicial case management, Native American drug courts, jail security and racial disparity in criminal justice.
A former Visiting Guggenheim Fellow in Criminal Justice at Yale Law School, Mr. Ryan is a member of the Connecticut Bar. He is currently employed as a Program Manager by the Justice Solutions Group.
Peter Krasnow , FAIA
Peter Krasnow’s 44-year architectural career includes needs assessments, planning, programming, design, technologies, and project management for Justice Facilities: law enforcement; courts; detention; correctional; juvenile and special-needs. Peter provides clients with fresh design approaches that are inventive, responsive to their programs, timely, meet budgets, and get built. In 2001, Mr. Krasnow was honored as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in recognition as one of America’s veteran design innovators. Mr. Krasnow authored “Correctional Facility Design And Detailing”, (The McGraw-Hill Companies), 1998, which has received international recognition as a valuable criminal justice resource. He is an alumnus of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York and has been published in numerous journals, such as World Architecture; Architectural Record; Architecture; Progressive Architecture; ENR;, Corrections Today, American Jails, Juvenile Justice; and Correctional News where he is advisory board member. 19 of his project designs have been published in the AIA Justice Facilities Review.
Mike McMillen , A.I.A.
Mr. McMillen has been responsible for operational/architectural programming and conceptual design on m ore than 50 juvenile justice facilities nationwide. Many of these have been recognized for design excellence by the American Institute of Architects annual Architecture for Justice Exhibition. He authored Residential Environments for the Juvenile Justice System (National Office of Social Responsibility), a compendium of standards and analysis describing the effects of environment on behavior and advanced approaches to residential care for youthful populations.
Daniel Russell, M.Ed.
Mr. Russell has been professionally involved in the criminal justice field for over 40 years. He began his career as a juvenile parole officer in the Montana Department of Corrections and was ultimately promoted to the position of Administrator of the Division of Corrections where he served for over 13 years under four different governors and administrations. As Administrator, Mr. Russell was the state director of all adult and juvenile correctional facilities, community residential programs, and probation, parole and aftercare services. Additionally, Mr. Russell spent 4 years working for the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections in Washington, D.C. providing technical assistance to state, county and local jurisdictions on a variety of correctional issues.
