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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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Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton, and Erin Torneo
2008Thompson-Cannino, Cotton, and Torneo will co-write a book illuminating the problematic role of eyewitness testimony in wrongful conviction. -
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.
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