Ruby Qazilbash

Deputy Director
Department of Justice

Ruby Qazilbash, MPA is the Deputy Director for Policy at the Bureau of Justice Assistance within the U.S. Department of Justice. For the past ten years she has directed policy and programs to support the criminal justice field to develop community-based alternatives for people with substance use and mental health disorders, and to improve programming, conditions of confinement, and sexual safety in the nation’s jails and prisons. At BJA, Ms. Qazilbash and her team implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act and the Second Chance Act and helped fund, launch, and sustain the Stepping Up Initiative to reduce the prevalence of people with serious mental illness in the nation’s jails. She also oversees the Justice Reinvestment Initiative which uses data to identify and address drivers of crime and state corrections costs, shifting state resources to more effective uses of criminal justice dollars to produce more public safety for the same cost. Ms. Qazilbash has been with DOJ for 17 years, with previous experience at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Arlington County, Virginia; and the New York City Mayor’s Office on Criminal Justice.

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Presentation(s):

• NIC/BJA Co-Sponsored - Recognizing and Responding to the Risk of Substance Withdrawal: A Panel Discussion and Listening Session with Legal, Correctional, and Clinical Experts

  Sunday, May 21, 2023
  9:45 AM – 11:15 AM

• Jail and Justice Support Center (JJSC) Roundtable

  Sunday, May 21, 2023
  1:15 PM – 2:45 PM

• What You Need to Know About Jail Health Services for 2023-24 from Our Federal Partners

  Sunday, May 21, 2023
  3:00 PM – 5:00 PM