Justice Reform

The Atlantic Philanthropies Provides a $3.25 Million Grant to Cornell Law School for Death Penalty Center

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10/28/2016

The center will focus on the application of international human rights norms that favor abolition of the death penalty in the United States and other countries.

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Kalief Browder's Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail

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10/21/2016

Venida Browder's death is example of the price families and communities pay when a loved one is unjustly jailed.

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Justice Reform

Prisoner to Proprietor: Entrepreneurship as a Re-entry Strategy

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09/29/2016

Joseph A. Antolin, Executive Director of the Asset Funders Network, highlights a strategy that works with the formerly incarcerated to become entrepreneurs.

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Public Policy

Applications Invited for Soros Justice Fellowships in Advocacy and Media

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09/21/2016

A program of the Open Society Foundations, Soros Justice Fellowships support outstanding individuals working to implement innovative projects that advance reform and spur debate on a range of issues facing the criminal justice system in the United...

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RFPs Etc

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Communications/Media

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Open Society Foundations

Funders Need Good Data to Evaluate Programs That Decriminalize Drug Addiction

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09/20/2016

Insha Rahman, Senior Planner at the Vera Institute, comments on the recent PNY Program, "Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic."

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Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.

Russell Sage Survey Finds Fear of Other People Is Now Primary Motivation for American Gun Ownership

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09/19/2016

A momentous shift in what kinds of firearms Americans are owning — and why — has huge implications for public health.

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Health

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Russell Sage Foundation

Brian Byrd, Program Officer, New York State Health Foundation, Chats About the Intersection of Health & Justice

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09/19/2016

Brian Byrd, program officer at the NY State Health Foundation, explains how he chose the panel for the PNY Program, "Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic."

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Funders Should Invest in Health Programs to End Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs

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09/15/2016

gabriel sayegh, Co-founder, Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice, was one of the panelists at the recent Philanthropy New York Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Revisiting Attica Shows How New York State Failed to Fulfill Promises

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08/26/2016

Inmates at Attica Correctional Facility during the 1971 uprising that ended with 39 people fatally shot when armed state troopers stormed the prison. Many reforms promised in the wake of the revolt have yet to materialize.

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Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row

Release Date:

08/16/2016

Equal Justice Initiative's founder and director, Bryan Stevenson, is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past.