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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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Petra Bartosiewicz
2011Bartosiewicz will write a book exploring how domestic prosecutions in the war on terror have transformed the U.S. justice system, making it less just and an institutionalized threat to the liberties of all Americans. -
Richard Rivera
2011Former New Jersey police officer Rivera will conduct research and training that focuses on citizen complaints and use-of-force data in New Jersey, as the first step in a larger effort to make the state s internal affairs system a national model of... -
Sara Zier
2011Zier seeks to stem the flow of incarcerating youth with mental illnesses in Washington State by facilitating their access to much-needed community-based mental health care services. -
Sonia Kumar
2011Kumar will challenge policies and practices that contribute to the needless detention of girls in Maryland s juvenile justice system and will work to ensure that statewide systems reform include girls perspectives, needs, and voices. -
Tarsha Jackson
2011Jackson will spearhead an effort to ensure that directly affected youth and their families play a meaningful role in the efforts to reform policies around youth confinement in the Houston jail system. -
Wesley Ware
2011Ware will work with LGBTQ youth in New Orleans in a grassroots effort to reform practices regarding the policing, arrest, and incarceration of LGBTQ youth in Louisiana. -
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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