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.

  • ABA SCLAID 2003

    Gideon Project Grantee - ABA SCLAID

  • ACLU Capital Punishment Project 2003

    Gideon Project Grantee - ACLU Capital Punishment Project

  • Alexander Lee 2003

    Alexander Lee will alleviate the abuse of transgender and gender variant prisoners in California by providing alternative sentencing and mitigation services to those detained in the San Francisco Bay Area.

  • Andrea Keilen 2003

    Andrea Keilen will research and expose prosecutorial misconduct in the Texas criminal justice system and produce a comprehensive evaluation of statistical and anecdotal evidence of deliberate attempts by prosecutors to circumvent the law.

  • Andrea Marsh 2003

    Andrea Marsh will protect indigent defense in Texas by monitoring the state's Fair Defense Act (FDA), which requires judges to meet certain minimum standards when appointing qualified counsel. Through outreach and public education, Marsh will work with county officials on the FDA's requirements and initiate litigation against counties in violation of the policy.

  • Arwen Bird 2003

    Arwen Bird, paralyzed in a car crash caused by a drunk driver, will mobilize crime survivors in Washington state and Nevada to break down the dichotomy between victims and offenders and work towards safer communities and a more humane, effective justice system that promotes prevention over retribution.

  • Bard College/Episcopal Social Services 2003

    Funds provided to Bard College/Episcopal Social Services will provide for the admission and full year's expenses for a new first-year class of students at Eastern NYCF, and to ensure the continuation of the Bard Prison Initiative.

  • Cheryl Graves 2003

    Cheryl Graves will work with community and juvenile court leaders to organize, train, educate, and advocate for juvenile justice reform in two high-crime urban areas in Chicago.

  • Clive Stafford-Smith 2003

    Clive Stafford-Smith will organize a coalition to promote enforcement of constitutional and human rights in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (home of a U.S. military base and prison); to produce a best-practices manual for litigating the cases before military commissions; and to write about a selection of Guantanamo prisoners.

  • Columbia University 2003

    Gideon Project Grantee - Columbia University

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