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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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Peter Markowitz
2001Peter Markowitz will establish an immigration defense project at a local community defender which ensures that criminal representation is sensitive to collateral immigration consequences and can serve as a model for defender organizations nation-wide. -
Presita May
2001Presita May will recruit community-based lawyers to represent people of color in custody; strengthen residents' links to state and local government decision-makers, and to increase and enhance communication between community residents and the police. -
Sara Catania
2001Sara Catania will examine, through a series of articles, why the public and politicians in California continue to support prosecution of severely mentally ill people for capital crimes in spite of the 1986 Supreme Court ruling which holds that... -
Xochitl Bervera
2001Xochitl Bervera will create and implement a comprehensive and creative legal strategy to support and further grassroots organizing efforts to end all incarceration for profit. -
Alexander Rundlet
1999Alexander Rundlet will provoke debate about the quality of indigent defense provided in Georgia and promote solutions through a strategy combining education, advocacy, and litigation. -
Andrea Black
1999Andrea Black will advocate for reform of INS detention policies, by enforcing and expanding adequate conditions in INS facilities; disseminating high-quality legal rights information to detainees; and working with traditional service providers to... -
Andrew Lichtenstein
1999Andrew Lichtenstein will produce "Inside America's Prisons," a series of photographic essays focusing on four thematic areas related to American prisons. -
Dan Collison
1999Dan Collison will produce "Ex-Offender Stories" following high-risk ex-offenders for six months starting with their release from jail. -
Eric Whitney
1999Eric Whitney will produce "Frontier Justice? Crime & Incarceration in the American West," a series of reports on crime and incarceration issues in the American West for the High Plains News. -
Kevin Pranis
1999Kevin Pranis will develop and implement a model program to train 30-40 high school, college, and graduate students as advocates for criminal justice reform. -
Maria McLaughlin
1999Maria McLaughlin will assess and improve the quality of pre-release counseling and planning for seriously mentally ill state prisoners. -
Monique Hoeflinger
1999Monique Hoeflinger will represent inmates in cases involving guard brutality in Alabama's and Georgia's prisons and jails, and improve public awareness of abuse inmates face. -
Nell Bernstein
1999Nell Bernstein will produce "How Incarceration Affects Families & Children," a series of stories looking at the impact of rising incarceration rates, particularly for women, on the structure of the American family. -
Salim Muwakkil
1999Salim Muwakkil will produce "Is the Future of Black Leadership Gang Related?", examining the impact of ex-inmates and gang leaders in leadership positions in the Black community. -
Shiu-Ming Cheer
1999Shiu-Ming Cheer will challenge misperceptions about the nature of the non-citizen detainee population in Los Angeles County jail facilities and implement system-wide improvements in legal access for detainees. -
Tonya McClary
1999Tonya McClary will create a model project in three geographical areas linking litigation, media, and community advocacy, in order to mobilize against the death penalty.
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