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Open Society-U.S.’s Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal legal system.
We are taking a moment to pause and analyze the future of our three U.S. based fellowship programs. This means we will not be issuing a call for proposals for 2025 fellows, as we would have done this fall.
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Cheryl Graves
2003Cheryl 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
2003Clive 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... -
David Dent
2003David Dent will write a book about his elementary school classmate who is serving a life sentence in a New York state prison. -
David Feige
2003David Feige will host a program on National Public Radio and to complete a book about indigent defense drawing on the voices of public defenders and low-income defendants. -
Emily Bazelon
2003Emily Bazelon will write articles about the shifting balance of power among judges, juries, and prosecutors in sentencing defendants to make federal sentences more punitive. -
Ernest Drucker
2003Ernest Drucker will develop a public health model for understanding the deleterious impact and social consequences of mass incarceration, particularly on urban communities throughout the United States. -
Kerry Cook
2003Kerry Cook spent 22 years on death row in Texas for a crime he did not commit. In 1999, he was exonerated with DNA evidence. He will write a memoir detailing his experience as an innocent person wrongfully convicted and the critical need for... -
Leslie Neale
2003Leslie Neale will complete and conduct outreach around her documentary film Juvies, about juveniles being prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to adult prisons in California. -
Lori Pompa
2003Lori Pompa will nationally replicate the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, the semester-long course she developed that is conducted inside Pennsylvania's prisons and jails to foster dialogue between college students and incarcerated people. -
Margaret Love
2003Margaret Love will research state and federal procedures for the restoration of rights after criminal convictions. She will analyze how effective these policies are and will lay the groundwork for a national effort to eliminate legal barriers to... -
Mary Beth Pfeiffer
2003Mary Beth Pfeiffer will investigate the growth of the mentally ill prison population in various states and to examine treatment options and opportunities for reform. -
Maurice Emsellem
2003Maurice Emsellem will help educate and engage labor unions impacted by the spread of employment screening for criminal records after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks a trend that increasingly denies jobs to formerly incarcerated people. -
Melissa Bradley
2003Melissa Bradley will integrate employment programs for formerly incarcerated people into mainstream economic development and to encourage investments from the business community to meet the employment needs of the over 600,000 people returning... -
Neelum Arya
2003Neelum Arya will address through investigation, direct legal advocacy, and mobilizing youth and their families California's law that funnels young people into the adult criminal justice system (a result of Proposition 21). -
O. Grace Bankole
2003O. Grace Bankole will To organize parents to reduce the number of imprisoned children in Louisiana, to advocate for their incarcerated children, and to train a group of Parent Advocates that serve as statewide resources for other families involved... -
Richard Leo
2003Together with Tom Wells, Richard Leo will complete a study on a multiple-false-confession murder case in Virginia that led to the wrongful conviction of four innocent men. -
Richard Schmechel
2003Richard Schmechel will further educate defense attorneys in the District of Columbia to fully understand DNA technology with the goal of bringing reliable science into the courtroom to better protect the innocent. -
Roberta Franklin
2003Roberta Franklin will conduct a public education campaign and mobilize grassroots groups in four cities in Alabama around sentencing reform, improved conditions in corrections facilities, and alternatives to incarceration. -
Steve Liss
2003Steve Liss will document, through photography and audio recordings, the experiences of incarcerated children, their families, and correction facilities staff members. -
Tom Wells
2003Together with Richard Leo, Tom Wells will complete a study on a multiple-false-confession murder case in Virginia that led to the wrongful conviction of four innocent men. -
Adam Ortiz
2002Adam Ortiz will work with sponsoring organiztaion, the ABA Juvenile Justice Center, towards abolishing the juvenile death penalty. -
Amy Bach
2002Amy Bach will produce a series of articles and a book about widespread injustice in this country's court system. -
Angela Davis
2002Ms. Davis will write a book about how prosecutorial power and discretion have perpetuated many of the inequities and flaws in the criminal justice system. -
Benita Jain
2002Benita Jain will establish a legal support model responsible to immigrant communities by supporting organizing efforts to reform detention/deportation laws and addressing immediate legal needs of detainees transferred to locations around the country. -
Curtis Stephen
2002Curtis Stephen will cover the nature of investigations in the criminal justice system-its impact on wrongful incarceration.
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