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Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population

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08/04/2016

Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population The American Civil Liberties Union is retooling an ambitious, donor-funded effort to reduce incarceration across the country,...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Advocating an End to the Death Penalty

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07/20/2016

The Atlantic Philanthropies and its network of partners are using advocacy and communications to end capital punishment in the United States once and for all.

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

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07/15/2016

“If America is to be America, we have to engage in a larger conversation than just the criminal justice system,” notes Walker.

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Atlantic Philanthropies Joins Black Foundation Executives In Sharing Grief Over Police Shootings

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07/08/2016

Just hours before five police officers were gunned down in the streets of Dallas, black foundation and nonprofit leaders from across the country picked up their phones Thursday and shared their grief.

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Century Foundation Promotes ‘Realistic Steps’ on Gun Violence

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06/15/2016

The country was horrified this weekend to learn of the massacre in Orlando affecting the LGBT and Latino communities, now known as the worst mass shooting in American history.

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Russell Sage Publishes First Book on Court Fines and Fees Exposes Lifetime of Debt Faced by Poor Americans

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06/08/2016

The culmination of years of original research on court fines and fees, "A Pound of Flesh" uncovers how America’s shadow criminal justice system keeps the poor in “permanent punishment” long after incarceration.

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Tow Foundation Supports Fellowships to Strengthen Reporting on Juvenile Justice

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05/25/2016

The Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College (CMCJ) has selected 26 journalists as Reporting Fellows for its third year-long program aimed at strengthening reporting on juvenile justice during the election year.

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

Glenn E. Martin is a formerly incarcerated person, in a country where 70 million Americans have a criminal record on file.

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City Officials Want New Program to Connect Troubled Students with Legal Support

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05/06/2016

Confronted with public high school students in a jam with the law, the city wants to connect these students with legal support and help them stay out of trouble in the first place.

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

Project New Opportunity is aimed at assisting a few of the thousands of inmates who were charged with drug violations and are being released by order of the U.S. Sentencing Commission under revised guidelines approved in 2014.

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