Yehudah Pryce is a therapist at a residential addiction treatment center and is a policy advocate for smart decarceration. He currently presents to MSW students on “Collateral Consequences and Smart Decarceration” for the University of Southern California Experiential Learning Lab series. Yehudah has lived experience as a ward of the court and was incarcerated for over 16-years after being arrested as a teenager for a non-violent robbery. Interacting with social workers while in juvenile detention facilities, county jails and prison; designing curriculum and facilitating process groups and self-improvement classes for incarcerated persons while in-custody; and providing therapy to “Lifers” who parole directly to the residential treatment center that he provides therapy at, has provided Yehudah with invaluable insight that informs his research to optimize therapeutic modalities towards smart decarceration. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a Master in Social Work and is currently a Doctor of Social Work student at Simmons University.

Yehudah lives in Irvine, California and finds balance through his daily study of the Talmud.