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OSI-Baltimore’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program seeks to reduce mass incarceration in Baltimore and Maryland through strategies that dismantle structural racism in criminal justice policies and promote restorative justice as the way to achieve lasting, and widely-shared, community safety. The Community Oversight Task Force In 2018, we continued our work to reform policing in Baltimore […]

Since 2009, OSI-Baltimore has been presenting this free, public series as a way of sparking sometimes difficult conversations about how race intersects with our lives. In 2018, we partnered with the Pratt Library and Baltimore Ceasefire to present discussions that were particularly relevant to current events, in hopes that they could help guide Baltimore residents […]

In 2018, Open Society Institute-Baltimore celebrated its 20th Anniversary, which gave us a rare opportunity to reflect on the positive impact we’ve had on Baltimore during our first two decades. Entering our 21st year, we celebrate the resilience of our staff, our grantees, our Fellows, our supporters, our partners—indeed of the people of Baltimore. Our […]

Advocates for Children and Youth, Inc. $80,000 over one year to engage in research, public education, technical assistance for agenda development, and community outreach to advance juvenile justice reform in Maryland American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland Foundation $100,000 over one year to support its policy analysis, education, mobilization and advocacy activities to reduce arrest […]

“It’s an unfair system,” says Bill L, who was detained for 40 days in the Montgomery County Detention Center on $7,500 bail. “You are guilty until proven innocent. The average person won’t have the money unless you’re rich. For the poor man, $750 might as well be $10,000, or $100,000. There are people in here […]

Twenty years ago, the Open Society Foundations created its only U.S. field office in Baltimore, believing that focusing intellectual and financial resources on the entrenched, systemic problems of one region could yield significant impact and provide successful approaches that other municipalities could replicate, creating upward pressure for national change. That belief was put to the […]