Programs
U.S. Programs

Grantees

Grantees

The Open Society Foundations U.S. Programs aims to address core threats to open society, including increasingly punitive national security policies, decreasing government transparency, entrenched structural racism, and growing incarceration rates.

  • Abira Ashfaq 1998

    Abira Ashfaq will represent detained immigrants with criminal convictions in New England and to help raise awareness of the legal repercussions for immigrants with criminal convictions.

  • Angela Daker 1998

    Angela Daker will provide legal representation and counseling for students in the low-income, high-crime neighborhood of West Town, where children confront a discouraging array of legal problems.

  • Barbara Kaban 1998

    Barbara Kaban will represent young people in delinquency hearings, to work closely with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services on related due process issues, and to conduct outreach to city and state agencies on educational needs of incarcerated teenagers.

  • Brent Pattison 1998

    Brent Pattison will provide legal advocacy on behalf of juvenile offenders with physical and mental disabilities and to help them avoid further contact with the juvenile justice system.

  • Carole Mitnick 1998

    Carole Mitnick will accelerate provision of critical new treatment programs and advanced technical assistance to treat prisoners in nations of the former Soviet Union who are suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.

  • Heather Barr 1998

    Heather Barr will raise awareness of the "criminalization" of mental illness, litigate for discharge planning for prisoners with mental illness, and advocate for access to services and housing in the community, and an end to criminalization of mental illness in New York and beyond.

  • Ingrid Eagly 1998

    Ingrid Eagly will provide battered women immigrants with legal representation in immigration proceedings and to conduct outreach to immigrant communities about issues of domestic violence.

  • Jennifer Gonnerman 1998

    Jennifer Gonnerman will write a narrative portrayal of the nation's largest penal colony.

  • Joe Davidson 1998

    Joe Davidson will examine the economic impact of mandatory minimum sentences and to report on those who have been released after being sentenced to death.

  • Joe Richman 1998

    Joe Richman will design and produce a series of diaries recorded by teenagers in prison.

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