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.

  • AIDS Housing of Washington 2004

    To support the second printing, distribution, and expansion of From Locked Up to Locked Out: Creating Post-Release Housing for Ex-Prisoners.

  • Alexander Lee 2004

    To 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 2004

    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 2004

    To protect indigent defense in Texas by monitoring the state's Fair Defense Act, 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 2004

    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 to work towards safer communities and a more humane, effective justice system that promotes prevention over retribution.

  • Bard College on Behalf of the Bard Prison Initiative 2004

    To establish a teleconferencing link that will connect, via telephone and video, the Bard Prison Initiative s satellite campuses operating inside Eastern and Woodbourne prisons with Bard College's main campus.

  • Cascade Center for Community Governance 2004

    A grant to implement the Civic Justice Corps in Portland, OR and North Charleston, SC.

  • Cheryl Graves 2004

    To 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 2004

    To 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.

  • Council of State Governments 2004

    Funding to develop an integrated print and web-based dissemination strategy for national Reentry Policy Council policy recommendations.

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