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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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Rachel Roth
2006A fellowship to complete the book Unlocking Reproductive Rights, which critically examines the ways that imprisonment undermines women's health, bodily integrity, and status as mothers. -
Robert Perkinson
2006A fellowship to write Texas Tough, a history of American punishment with an emphasis on the country's most incarcerated and politically influential state: Texas. -
Sunita Patel
2006A fellowship to develop a replicable model for greater transparency and public accountability for detention operations in New Jersey jails. -
Susan Burton
2006A fellowship to strengthen the policy knowledge and skills of formerly incarcerated women in the Greater Los Angeles area; increase the capacity of individuals working towards policy change in the criminal justice reform arena; and bridge the gap... -
Susan Koch
2006A fellowship to complete and distribute Simple Justice, a documentary film that follows the case of Mario Rocha, a young Latino man arrested and convicted of murder on the basis of one questionable eyewitness identification and no physical evidence. -
Ursula Price
2006A fellowship to investigate Orleans Parish inmates' claims of neglect and abuse so that they may seek justice and aid in reshaping the local justice system. -
Abubakr Muhammed Karim
2005Karim will undertake an effort to replicate a model re-entry program run for and by men and women who were previously incarcerated, former substance abusers, or diversion sanctioned probationers. -
Alexander Ndaula
2005Ndaula will work with nonprofit organizations, universities, and other groups to provide support to immigrants who are detained in the rural South. -
Annie Sundberg and Rickie Stern
2005Sundberg and Stern will complete and distribute the wrongful-conviction documentary The Trials of Darryl Hunt. -
Dan Hunt and Janet Baus
2005Hunt and Baus will complete and distribute the documentary film Cruel and Unusual, which tells the stories of transgender women–biological males who have lived as women on the outside–incarcerated in state and federal prisons for men. -
Dana Kaplan
2005Kaplan, an organizer and activist, will launch a project that addresses the expansion of local jails, which has accelerated considerably even as prison growth has slowed. -
Emmett Solomon
2005Solomon will develop a coordinated network of mainstream and conservative religious leaders to advocate for and educate the public about the need for alternatives to incarceration. -
Fredric Dannen
2005Dannen is completing a nonfiction book on David Wayne Spence, an innocent man executed by the state of Texas. -
Gregory Hooks
2005Hooks, chair of the Sociology Department at Washington State University, will build on prior research to challenge the widely held assumption that prisons can contribute to economic growth, especially in hard-pressed local areas. -
Harmon Wray
2005Wray, a lay minister and advocate rooted in the South and its religious culture as well as in the national network of organizations seeking deep changes in our society s response to crime and violence, will begin a Program in Faith and Criminal... -
Jeffrey Fagan
2005Fagan, a Columbia Law and Public Health professor, will critically examine new research evidence on the deterrent effects of capital punishment. -
Joe Loya
2005Loya will write The Parole of Buddha Lobo, a memoir of his first five years out of prison. -
Kenavon Carter
2005Carter will launch a project to reduce racial profiling by law enforcement agencies in Texas. -
Kristi Couvillon
2005Couvillon, a lawyer and social worker, will conduct a multi-faceted effort to implement the American Bar Association Guidelines regarding defense representation in death penalty cases in Texas and the surrounding states. -
Michele Deitch
2005Deitch will examine several international prison oversight models, as well as the few examples of nonjudicial oversight that already exist in the U.S., with a view towards broader application (and adaptation) of these models in the U.S. -
Michelle Alexander
2005Alexander will write a book for a mainstream audience that argues that the war on drugs and mass incarceration is "The New Jim Crow." -
Norris Henderson
2005Henderson, an organizer and advocate, will launch a project to remove barriers preventing formerly incarcerated people from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the community. -
Shaena Fazal
2005Fazal will conduct research, litigation, and coalition building that will result in increased opportunities for long-term prisoners without compromising public safety, and reduce recidivism as well as corrections spending. -
Vivian Nixon
2005Nixon, an advocate and ordained minister, will launch a project to educate ministers and lay leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in five northeastern states about the disproportionate number of people of color in prison and the need... -
Alexander Lee
2004To 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.
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