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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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Hussein Sadruddin
Hussein Sadruddin will combat INS's inappropriate use of rural county jails throughout Texas by enforcing compliance with minimum detention standards adopted by the INS. With more than 60% of all civil immigration detainees detained in Texas... -
James Liebman
James Liebman will identify and implement effective ways to moderate the use of the death penalty in the United States, drawing on original research challenging popular assumptions driving death penalty policy and a carefully structured set of... -
Janet Bussey
Janet Bussey will work to heighten public awareness of the benefits of using alternatives to incarceration as sanctions for women inmates. -
Jessica Vasquez
Jessica Vasquez will provide legal representation for Spanish-speaking women who are victims of violence. -
Jody Armour
Jody Armour will write Hearts and Minds in Blame and Punishment, a book challenging both "common sense" assumptions as well as prevailing scholarly theories about who we blame and punish and why. The book will examine how youthfulness, gender,... -
Jonathan Simon
Jonathan Simon will write a book challenging the conventional debate around crime policy, especially incarceration. -
Jordan Schreiber
Jordan Schreiber will work to ensure the success of Proposition 36 by maximizing its effectiveness and countering the unintended consequences posed by its implementation . The project will develop and implement protocols to identify defendants... -
Joycelyn Pollock
Joycelyn Pollock will survey existing parenting programs serving mothers in prison and their children, to identify the key components of the most successful programs, and to publicize the results to wardens who seek to conduct broader assessments... -
Judith Greene
Judith Greene will write a manual for policymakers on the impact of prison privatization on state and local correctional policies, communities, and prisoners and their families. -
Kelly Warner-King
Kelly Warner-King will advocate for truant youth to receive the social, educational, and support services they need to help them succeed. -
Lauren Song
Lauren Song will assist domestic violence victims in gaining lawful permanent resident status and ultimately freedom from battery, since most non-resident victims do not realize U.S. criminal laws protect victims without regard to their... -
Lynn Vogelstein
Lynn Vogelstein will conduct workshops for parents at New York City and State women's correctional facilities and community-based organizations on parent's legal rights and responsibilities and to help provide legal representation for those... -
Michael Berryhill
Michael Berryhill will write Surviving Hell: Three Stories of Race, Violence and Redemption in Texas Prisons which will draw the connection between prison culture and the making of criminals. -
Michael Jacobson
Michael Jacobson will identify strategies designed to significantly reduce the number of technical parole violators returned to prison. -
Paulo de Mesquita Neto
Paulo de Mesquita Neto will publish a book on police accountability in new democracies, with an emphasis on Latin America, focusing on the forces, which promote and sustain democratic institutions. -
Rebecca Peters
Rebecca Peters will research gun violence and gun control laws internationally, so that countries considering the reform of their gun laws can be informed by the experience elsewhere. -
Rebecca Young
Rebecca Young will deter guard brutality in Massachusetts prisons by providing rapid response to reports of abuse, documenting existing abuse and publicizing a groundbreaking study of its prevalence. The project aims to ensure that abused... -
Robert Boruchowitz
Robert Boruchowitz will work towards significantly reducing the number of people facing misdemeanor and juvenile prosecution without counsel, and also towards increased use of diversion alternatives. -
Robert Williams
Robert Williams will examine the legal history of ideas of savagery and other forms of racism directed against Indians in the criminal justice system in Indian Country, and to analyze contemporary challenges to overcoming this legacy of racism. -
Ronald Braithwaite
Ronald Braithwaite will conduct field interviews with key corrections officials and inmates at six U.S. correctional facilities to develop model guidelines on health education and HIV prevention for correctional policymakers. -
Roslyn Satchel
Roslyn Satchel will work towards curbing the excessive and inappropriate use of juvenile detention for young women and to minimize its harmful effects. The project will improve the legal representation, sentencing and treatment of girls in the... -
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore will organize grassroots caucuses in urban and rural areas and work to understand how to enliven political and economic activism to oppose over-incarceration. -
Samuel Walker
Samuel Walker will critique the successes and failures of civilian review procedures; to provide a discussion of the politically charged issue of police misconduct; and to review the best methods of handling citizen complaints to curb police misconduct. -
Sherod Thaxton
Sherod Thaxton will conduct a state-wide statistical study of the influence of extra-legal factors on the capital charging-and-sentencing process and using the study as an exportable model for capital defenders to challenge the arbitrary and... -
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards will write, USP Marion: the First Modern Super-Max Penitentiary, a book chronicling the history of the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois, exploring the phenomena of super-max facilities, and analyzing the long-term consequences for...
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