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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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Jonathan Rapping
2007A grant to develop the Southern Public Defender Training Center, which will train public defenders across the southeastern United States to represent indigent defendants in a more responsive and effective way. -
Ken Lamberton
2007A grant to complete and promote his book, Razor Wire Notes,a first-person account of the last three years of his 12-year prison sentence. -
Kristin Houlé
2007A grant to to raise public awareness in Texas about theapplication of the death penalty to the severely mentally ill. -
Laura Mansnerus
2007A grant to write a series of articles examining the workings ofthe nation's Sexually Violent Predator laws, with a focus on New Jersey. -
Lauren Sudeall
2007A grant to combine capital and civil litigation, grassroots organizing,and media outreach in order to draw attention to injustices experienced byminorities in the criminal justice system. -
Patricia Allard
2007A grant to conduct research and advocate for reforms to give childrenin foster care opportunities to reunify with parents at risk of incarcerationor already incarcerated. -
Pippa Holloway
2007A grant to write a book on the history of the disfranchisement of people convicted of crimes. -
RaeDeen Karasuda
2007A grant to help formerly incarcerated Native Hawaiians transition to life beyond prison by implementing a culturally sensitive re-entry curriculum in prisons. -
Reginald Gossett
2007A grant to launch Building Bridges, to research and documentrising rates of imprisonment of low-income women and lesbian, gay, bisexual,and transgender people. -
Ricardo Barreras
2007A grant to conduct research that will examine the social, legal,and economic effects on people arrested and processed through the criminaljustice system for a misdemeanor charge. -
Robert Rooks
2007A grant to launch the Grassroots Civic Participation and Action ResearchProject, to increase the civic participation of people affected by punitivecriminal justice issues. -
Ruben Austria
2007A grant to launch Community Connections, which will work to reduce the harmful consequences of incarcerating young people, particularlypoor youth of color. -
Subhash Kateel
2007A grant to build the Deportee Defense Network of Miami and South Florida, an organization run by and for immigrants facing deportation. -
Wilbert Rideau
2007A grant to Wilbert Rideau to write his autobiography, The Truth Shall Set YouFree, detailing the inner workings of the criminal justice system, thepolitics of race and justice, and his 44 years spent at the Louisiana StatePenitentiary. -
Alina Das
2006A fellowship to launch a project to develop reentry and reintegration strategies for immigrants facing criminal charges and convictions. -
Angela Chan
2006A fellowship to launch a juvenile justice project utilizing litigation, education, and policy advocacy to obtain equal access for Asian Pacific Islander families to participate in the rehabilitation of their youth. -
Cassandra Shaylor
2006A fellowship to write a book that provides policymakers, activists, and the general public with practical, viable alternatives to prisons that contribute to safer, more democratic communities. -
Debbie Reyes
2006A fellowship to develop a grassroots project that will conduct workshops, forums, meetings, and rallies in communities directly affected by prisons, and will challenge the notion that prisons are good for the economy. -
Dee Ann Newell
2006A fellowship to work in ten pilot sites across the country to promote policies and practices that effectively respond to the needs of children with incarcerated parents. -
Elisa Della-Piana
2006A fellowship to help influence homeless policy nationally by reorienting San Francisco's approach to homelessness, underscoring why spending scarce resources on criminalization is counter-productive, and protecting homeless people from civil... -
Heather Thompson
2006A fellowship to write a book on the 1971 Attica Prison uprising and its legacy. -
Katherine Beckett
2006A fellowship to examine changes to the implementation of trespass law and its implications for access to public space and the expansion of the criminal justice system. -
Linda LaBranche
2006A fellowship to study a quarter-century in the life of the inmate-run publication The Angolite, documenting its operation and content, as well as its impact upon prisoners inside and outside of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. -
Mika'il DeVeaux
2006A fellowship to advocate within and on behalf of the Muslim community on issues regarding incarceration, reentry, and civic responsibility. -
Paul Butler
2006A fellowship to write The Future of Justice: The Radical Transformation of Crime and Punishment in America, a book that will explore how technology and new theories of human behavior will change criminal justice in the United States, and will...
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