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.

  • Alexander Rundlet 1999

    Alexander Rundlet will provoke debate about the quality of indigent defense provided in Georgia and promote solutions through a strategy combining education, advocacy, and litigation.

  • Andrea Black 1999

    Andrea Black will advocate for reform of INS detention policies, by enforcing and expanding adequate conditions in INS facilities; disseminating high-quality legal rights information to detainees; and working with traditional service providers to ensure a minimum level of legal services or right to government appointed counsel.

  • Andrew Lichtenstein 1999

    Andrew Lichtenstein will produce "Inside America's Prisons," a series of photographic essays focusing on four thematic areas related to American prisons.

  • Dan Collison 1999

    Dan Collison will produce "Ex-Offender Stories" following high-risk ex-offenders for six months starting with their release from jail.

  • Eric Whitney 1999

    Eric Whitney will produce "Frontier Justice? Crime & Incarceration in the American West," a series of reports on crime and incarceration issues in the American West for the High Plains News.

  • Kevin Pranis 1999

    Kevin Pranis will develop and implement a model program to train 30-40 high school, college, and graduate students as advocates for criminal justice reform.

  • Maria McLaughlin 1999

    Maria McLaughlin will assess and improve the quality of pre-release counseling and planning for seriously mentally ill state prisoners.

  • Monique Hoeflinger 1999

    Monique Hoeflinger will represent inmates in cases involving guard brutality in Alabama's and Georgia's prisons and jails, and improve public awareness of abuse inmates face.

  • Nell Bernstein 1999

    Nell Bernstein will produce "How Incarceration Affects Families & Children," a series of stories looking at the impact of rising incarceration rates, particularly for women, on the structure of the American family.

  • Salim Muwakkil 1999

    Salim Muwakkil will produce "Is the Future of Black Leadership Gang Related?", examining the impact of ex-inmates and gang leaders in leadership positions in the Black community.

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