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Two OSI-Baltimore grantees, Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) and No Boundaries Coalition are taking an active role in the consent decree between Baltimore City Police (BPD) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) by releasing sets of recommendations. According to their press release, BALT’s recommendations, which were drafted by a group of volunteer lawyers, include an […]

OSI-Baltimore grantee  Holistic Life Foundation (HLF) has been getting quite a bit of attention recently, with articles featuring its afterschool program Holistic Me appearing on website like Upworthy, Vibe, GOOD Magazine, Woman’s Day, and Bustle. Started by HLF co-founders, brothers Ali and Atman Smith, with help from long-time friend Andrés Gonzalez, Holistic Me was developed […]

In the latest–and last–installment of WYPR’s series, On the Watch, “Cincinnati’s police reform story–a lesson for Baltimore?” reporter Mary Rose Madden looks at Cincinnati’s consent decree 15 years after it was implemented and asks if Baltimore might learn from that city’s process. In 2001, after a white office shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, […]

OSI Community Fellows Hannah Brancato (2015) and Jacqueline Robarge (2002) and OSI grantee Free State Justice were honored in City Paper’s Best of Baltimore issue. Brancato’s project FORCE Monument Quilt (Best Monument) aims to create a public monument of healing for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Brancato co-founded FORCE a few years ago, […]

Tara Huffman, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program, is quoted in VICE magazine story, “How Cops Have Turned Baltimore into a Surveillance State,” which talks about community anger at revelations of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) surveillance program days after the Department of Justice report on the BPD, and the relationship between police and communities […]

Check out the latest issue of Baltimore Style magazine to find a profile of 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, Meryam Bouadjemi’s most recent endeavor, Close Up Baltimore, a Humans of New York-style photo essay project in which Baltimoreans get to tell their stories. Recently, in an effort to “democratize the platform” the project decided to bring […]

Over the Labor Day weekend, Tara Huffman, director of OSI’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice program, talked to the Al Jazeera TV network about the US practice of sentencing young people to life in prison without parole. The Supreme Court deemed such sentences unconstitutional in 2012, but more than 2,000 people remain in prison on sentences passed down […]

Scott Nolen (left) and Carlos Hardy with their Baltimore City Health Equity Leadership Awards   On Tuesday night, Baltimore City Health Commissioner Leana Wen presented Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Drug Addiction Treatment program, with the Baltimore City Health Equity Leadership Award as part of the Health Department’s Healthy Baltimore 2020 Community Conversation at the Druid Hill Y. […]

OSI staff wearing International Overdose Awareness Day pins and holding their Naloxone training cards after being trained to administer the life-saving drug.   By Rachel Moler One hundred and twenty nine. This is the number of people that die every day from an overdose in the United States. This number does not consist of individuals from […]