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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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Gregory Hooks
2005Hooks, chair of the Sociology Department at Washington State University, will build on prior research to challenge the widely held assumption that prisons can contribute to economic growth, especially in hard-pressed local areas. -
Harmon Wray
2005Wray, a lay minister and advocate rooted in the South and its religious culture as well as in the national network of organizations seeking deep changes in our society s response to crime and violence, will begin a Program in Faith and Criminal... -
Jeffrey Fagan
2005Fagan, a Columbia Law and Public Health professor, will critically examine new research evidence on the deterrent effects of capital punishment. -
Joe Loya
2005Loya will write The Parole of Buddha Lobo, a memoir of his first five years out of prison. -
Kenavon Carter
2005Carter will launch a project to reduce racial profiling by law enforcement agencies in Texas. -
Kristi Couvillon
2005Couvillon, a lawyer and social worker, will conduct a multi-faceted effort to implement the American Bar Association Guidelines regarding defense representation in death penalty cases in Texas and the surrounding states. -
Michele Deitch
2005Deitch will examine several international prison oversight models, as well as the few examples of nonjudicial oversight that already exist in the U.S., with a view towards broader application (and adaptation) of these models in the U.S. -
Michelle Alexander
2005Alexander will write a book for a mainstream audience that argues that the war on drugs and mass incarceration is "The New Jim Crow." -
Norris Henderson
2005Henderson, an organizer and advocate, will launch a project to remove barriers preventing formerly incarcerated people from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the community. -
Shaena Fazal
2005Fazal will conduct research, litigation, and coalition building that will result in increased opportunities for long-term prisoners without compromising public safety, and reduce recidivism as well as corrections spending. -
Vivian Nixon
2005Nixon, an advocate and ordained minister, will launch a project to educate ministers and lay leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in five northeastern states about the disproportionate number of people of color in prison and the need... -
Brenda Kenneally
2001Brenda Kenneally will illustrate through writing and photography the problematic nature of incarceration for victimless drug and drug-related crimes. -
Emily Bolton
2001Emily Bolton will expose errors and identify practical, system-wide adjustments to minimize wrongful convictions. The project works to reframe the debate over the importance of constitutional protections and advocate reform of a system that places... -
Jan Goodwin
2001Jan Goodwin will write a series of articles exploring restorative justice as a viable framework for the criminal justice system. -
Jessy Fernandez
2001Jessy Fernandez will launch the Community Education Project which seeks to educate poor communities of color about the nation's over-reliance on punishment and incarceration, and to support their participation and leadership in creating and... -
Linda Evans
2001Linda Evans will increase civic participation of former prisoners, launch a public education campaign highlighting the social, political, and economic obstacles faced by former prisoners and engage in policy advocacy on behalf of them. -
Marlee Ford
2001Marlee Ford will create a replicable, community-based, prevention-focused, holistic defender model that is effective at both reducing juvenile incarceration and increasing public safety. -
Michelle Dillard
2001Michelle Dillard will raise public awareness, develop an advocacy module and framework for the implementation of therapeutic interventions for children with incarcerated parents. -
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.
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