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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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Rebecca Kidder
1997Rebecca Kidder will track patterns of youth crime on the Tribe's reservation, analyze the link between violent crime and gang activity, and develop rehabilitative programs in order to strengthen the Tribe's juvenile justice system. -
Roseanna Ander
1997Roseanna Ander will conduct a national study of effective truancy prevention strategies, disseminate it to all public schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and implement an early intervention program in Essex County. -
Sharon Djemal
1997Sharon Djemal will change policy within New York City public housing that penalizes residents and places them at risk of eviction if they receive a visit from a family member suspected of committing a crime. -
Traci L. Douglas
1997Traci L. Douglas will offer legal education and representation to juveniles facing long incarceration terms and meager opportunities for community-based services. -
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Balakrishnan Rajagopal will write a book exploring practical strategies for implementing criminal law reform in emerging democracies. -
Bell Gale Chevigny
Bell Gale Chevigny will edit and publish an anthology of PEN prize-winning poems, essays, and stories about key experiences of prison life. -
Catherine Campbell
Catherine Campbell will research, examine and analyze the California prison boom, and particularly the development of "supermax" units, with a focus on the history of Corcoran prison. -
Catherine Powell
Catherine Powell will change the frame of public debate by educating and encouraging Americans to challenge prevailing criminal justice policies using a human rights perspective. The project's aim is to encourage people to use human rights... -
Christian Parenti
Christian Parenti will write, The Soft Cage: Surveillance and Incarceration, a book exploring the extent to which forms of everyday surveillance contribute to the state's power to criminalize and incarcerate. The project aims to add a new angle to... -
Christine Duclos
Christine Duclos will design and disseminate a study assisting Northern Plains tribal communities and coordinate their responses to mentally ill youth. -
Cristina Rathbone
Cristina Rathbone will write a narrative portrait of MCI Framingham, the oldest running prison for women in the United States. -
David Cole
David Cole will draw public attention to the costs of tolerating inequality in the U.S. criminal justice system and to the benefits of adopting alternative approaches that reduce disparities. He will also examine ways to support faith-based... -
David Harris
David Harris will write a book to address racial profiling, explaining the importance of profiling for incarceration, myths of black criminality, and the corrosion of faith in the criminal justice system. -
David Hemenway
The scientific evidence on firearms is inaccessible to most policy makers, the general public, and scholars. Professor Hemenway will write a book, entitled Private Guns, Public Health, to spark debate about beneficial and realistic firearm... -
David Zlotnick
David Zlotnick will write a detailed portrait which gathers the stories of federal judges who oppose mandatory minimum sentencing laws. The project will highlight this important, substantial, and often isolated constituency who strongly support... -
Deborah LaBelle
Deborah LaBelle will initiate litigation for juveniles incarcerated in adult facilities, challenging increasingly harsh conditions of their detention. -
Deborah Ramirez
Deborah Ramirez will develop strategies to enhance understanding between law enforcement and the Arab, Muslim and Sikh communities. -
Dorothy Lewis
Dorothy Lewis will explore the interactions of biological and environmental factors in the genesis of violence. -
Elizabeth Van Schaack
Elizabeth Van Schaack will assist victims who suffered grave human rights violations in places such as Bosnia, Chile, and El Salvador, by either suing those violators present in the United States or by encouraging the U. S. government to bring... -
Ellen Barry
Ellen Barry will launch a public education campaign highlighting the long and short-term effects of incarceration on women, their children, and families. -
Emily Simon
Emily Simon will continue an education and litigation campaign targeted at alleviating the harsh effect and high cost of Oregon's "one strike and you're out" mandatory adult sentencing scheme for juvenile offenders. -
Eric Lotke
Eric Lotke will perform research and advocacy on the economic impact of the US Census counting prisoners at their prison sites rather than their home communities. -
George Ashanti Witherspoon
George Ashanti Witherspoon will develop a manual to demystify both the personal and institutional obstacles to community reentry, with a view to assisting former prisoners as well as the practitioners who work on their behalf. -
Giovanna Shay
Giovanna Shay will highlight the needs of women prisoners in the areas of sexual abuse, health care, and education; to identify compelling new cases; to participate in ongoing National Prison Project litigation; and to develop a resource handbook... -
Herman Goldstein
Herman Goldstein will explore the nature of recent changes in policing and to draw attention, through publication, to aspects of policing that require more intensive work if future change efforts are to be more successful in producing a form of...