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OSI Grantees Ensure Stimulus Brings Opportunity to All
Press Release
November 12, 2009
The Open Society Institute announced grants to nonprofits in six states to monitor stimulus spending, encourage public participation in state-level decisions, and advocate for an equitable distribution of recovery funds.

About U.S. Programs
OSI's U.S. Programs aims to address core threats to open society, including increasingly punitive national security policies, decreasing government transparency, entrenched structural racism, and growing incarceration rates.

Congress Introduces Criminal Justice Reinvestment Act of 2009
November 19, 2009
Introduced by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Adam Schiff, the act authorizes the U.S. attorney general to make grants that incentivize state and local governments to reduce and better manage prison spending.

Wisconsin Alliance to Ensure Transparency and Equity in Economic Recovery
Press Release
November 12, 2009
The Open Society Institute today announced a $470,000 grant to groups in Wisconsin to monitor federal stimulus spending, encourage public participation in state-level decisions, and advocate for an equitable distribution of recovery funds.

New Documentary Exploring Mental Illness After Prison Debuts on FRONTLINE
VIDEO
The Released provides a rare look at the lives of people suffering from mental illness as they struggle to stay out of prison and find a place in society.

Video Clip: Picking Cotton�Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
VIDEO
A new book by Open Society Institute fellows involves an improbable friendship forged between a woman and the man she misidentified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years.

The Future of Family Detention in America
OSI-New York
September 23, 2009
VIDEO AUDIO
Cosponsored by the Open Society Institute and the American Civil Liberties Union, this forum discusses The Least of These, the acclaimed documentary about the T. Don Hutto immigrant family detention center in Texas.

Black Labor in America: Emerging Opportunities Amid the Economic Crisis
OSI-New York
June 25, 2009
AUDIO
Steven C. Pitts of UC Berkeley discusses the job crisis facing the black community, with an emphasis on relations between black men and Latino immigrants in the workplace.

America�s Problem-Solving Courts
September 2009
This OSI-supported report seeks to redefine the debate over drug enforcement policy in the United States by challenging the fundamental criminal justice lens through which drug-related issues are evaluated.

A Note from U.S. Programs
Ann Beeson
July 23, 2009
OSI has provided support to a range of national groups this year to ensure that federal stimulus spending is transparent and that dollars flow equitably to communities most in need, writes U.S. Programs director Ann Beeson.