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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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Joshua Perry
2008In New Orleans, indigent defendants often face months of pretrial detention and endure harsh over-sentencing; Joshua Perry will coordinate special litigation efforts at the Orleans Public Defenders to alleviate these problems. -
Luissana Santibañez
2008Luissana Santibañez will build a Texas-based network of former detainees to elevate community awareness and build support for policies that protect the rights of detainees. -
Patricia Soung
2008Patricia Soung will use legal advocacy, community organizing, and research to work to abolish life without parole sentences for juveniles. -
Paul Hofer
2008Paul Hofer will research and write a series of articles and reports that assess the dramatic widening of racial disparities in sentencing and the reduction of judicial discretion under federal sentencing guidelines. -
Shadd Maruna
2008Shadd Maruna will complete a book exploring the future of self-improvement and rehabilitation as ideals in the U.S. criminal justice system and American society. -
Shantel Vachani
2008Shantel Vachani will create an innovative advocacy model to counteract the trends that push special-needs youth out of the public education system and into the juvenile corrections system. -
Sujatha Baliga
2008Sujatha Baliga will work to reduce California s over-reliance on mass incarceration by advocating community-based alternatives for youth, which address the underlying causes of youth crime and recidivism. -
Susan Phillips
2008Susan Phillips will complete a book examining how federal policies directed at combating drugs and gangs actually generate and sustain the conditions that perpetuate poverty, crime, and violence in communities of color. -
William Sothern
2008Sothern will complete two books that seek to inform the public debate surrounding capital punishment and juxtapose Sothern s own experience in the criminal justice system with those of his death row clients. -
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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