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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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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. -
Daniel Karpowitz
2002Daniel Karpowitz will integrate higher education in the prisons with criminal justice advocacy. -
Elizabeth Amon
2002Elizabeth Amon will write about "Immigration Detention After September 11th" for magazines and newspapers. -
JeDonna Young
2002JeDonna Young will organize grassroots and organizations support for sentencing reform in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. -
Kamel Jacot-Bell
2002Kamel Jacot-Bell will use urban media to promote awareness around prison issuers and engage the "hip hop generation" in community organizing campaigns towards political change. -
Kemba Smith
2002Kemba Smith will work to unite youth from a variety of backgrounds to support a drug policy reform agenda. -
Michael Blain
2002Michael Blain will develop a network of prisoners, ex-prisoners, their families and communities to actively participate in criminal justice policy reform. -
Miriam Aukerman
2002Miriam Aukerman will challenge legal barriers to reentry and expand access to civil legal services for ex-offenders in West Michigan. -
Nathan Blakeslee
2002Nathan Blakeslee will write a book and related magazine articles on the drug war. -
Peter Wagner
2002Peter Wagner will quantify, publicize and reform the current practice of counting urban prisoners as rural residents for purposes of redistricting. -
Robin Mejia
2002Robin Mejia will report on problems with forensic evidence and show who they prejudice trails and lead to wrongful convictions. -
Sapna Mirchandani
2002Sapna Mirchandani will work to end juvenile executions through a campaign focused on public education, youth empowerment, and grassroots mobilization. -
Slawomir Grunberg
2002Slawomir Grunberg will complete and distribute a 52-minute documentary that draws attention to how the justice system treats the mentally handicapped. -
Tyrone Turner
2002Tyrone Turner will document the issue of transferring juvenile offenders to the adult criminal justice system.
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