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Soros Justice Fellow Named "CNN Hero"
February 19, 2010
video VIDEO  
Soros Justice Fellow Susan Burton is founder of a grassroots, nonprofit home for formerly incarcerated women in South Los Angeles.

About This Initiative
The U.S. Programs Criminal Justice Fund works to end the overreliance on incarceration and ensure a fair and equitable system of justice in the United States.

Celebrating 30 Years of Grassroots Leadership
OSI-New York
March 10, 2010
Speakers at this event will reflect upon the organization's decades of work as a multiracial community organizing effort focusing on ending private prisons and immigrant family detention.

A Question of Freedom
OSI-New York
September 25, 2009
slideshow AUDIO
This Open Society Institute roundtable discussion features R. Dwayne Betts, author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison.

Soros Justice Fellow's Work Featured on This American Life
January 11, 2010
A story produced by 2009 Soros Justice Fellow Nancy Mullane follows a man who has served 27 years in a California prison and must await the governor's approval before being granted parole.

Justice Reinvestment Honored
November 10, 2009
The American Society of Criminology recognized justice reinvestment, a concept pioneered by the Open Society Institute, with its Presidential Award for Distinguished Contributions to Justice.

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