Justice
The credibility and moral authority of the United States is undermined when human rights abuses continue its own back yard. The U.S. criminal justice system violates basic tenets of international human rights law and the U.S. Constitution by routinely imprisoning the mentally ill and the drug addicted without providing rehabilitative services, failing to provide adequate legal representation to low-income people, widely discriminating on the basis of race and income, dispensing one-size-fits-all mandatory prison sentences, and imposing the death penalty against juveniles and people who are overwhelmingly poor, minorities, or suffering from deficits of education, mental disease, or severe childhood abuse. The Fund seeks initiatives to reform public policy in these areas.
Brennan Center for Justice - $70,000
Programmatic support for their Liberty & National Security and Criminal Justice Reform projects.
Center for Constitutional Rights - $50,000
Ongoing support the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, where CCR recruits, coordinates and trains hundreds of volunteer attorneys from around the country to provide legal help to Guantanamo detainees and those captured anywhere else in the world in the name of the war on terror.
Constitution Project - $100,000
For capacity building in the areas of communications and outreach and management.
Defender Association - $15,000
Support for the Racial Disparity Project of this Seattle-based public interest law firm..
Families Against Mandatory Minimums - $50,000
Second year of a two year general support grant to reform of harsh mandatory sentencing laws at the federal and state levels.
Innocence Project - $50,000
Support for their work on eyewitness misidentification, the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing.
Institute for Media Analysis, Law & Disorder Radio - $10,000
A grant for this public radio show, recorded in New York at the Pacifica Radio affiliate WBAI, which is one of the few programs in the country devoted to legal issues related to the U.S. Constitution and civil liberties in the post-9/11 era in the United States and the world.
National Network of Grantmakers - $15,000
Support for the national conference, “Communities Unbound: Claiming the Power of a Just Society.”
Sentencing Project - $100,000
General support for their work documenting discriminatory, costly and ineffective sentencing policies.
Southern Center for Human Rights - $40,000
For their work protecting the constitutional rights of racial minorities, poor, and disadvantaged persons in the criminal justice system and to protect the human rights of people in prisons and jails.
Vera Institute of Justice - $100,000
Programmatic support for Vera’s ongoing policy work on national sentencing reform.
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