Click here to see more pictures from the Justice Forum Community members packed the Real News Network conference space on Saturday to discuss and debate potential recommendations for Baltimore’s next mayor and City Council to address criminal and juvenile justice reform as part of a series of events leading up to OSI’s Solutions Summit […]
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Community meets to recommend priorities for justice reform at Solution Summit forum
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Solutions Summit Behavioral Health Forum sets priorities for change
Tuesday, October 04, 2016Saturday morning, about 100 people braved the rain to come to the War Memorial Building and discuss ways to improve behavioral health in Baltimore in the first of three forums leading up to OSI’s Solutions Summit on December 10. Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen gave the official welcome at the forum, laying out […]
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Solutions Summit registration now open
Friday, September 16, 2016New details announced for Solutions Summit: Registration now open for half-day forums and December 10 Summit BALTIMORE – Open Society Institute-Baltimore proudly announces the full schedule for Solutions Summit, an effort to bring together community leaders, elected officials, issue-area experts, on-the-ground activists and concerned residents in order to come up with practical solutions to some of […]
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OSI’s Huffman talks to Al Jazeera about juvenile justice reform
Tuesday, September 06, 2016Over 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 […]
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OSI’s Scott Nolen Recognized by Baltimore City Health Department
Thursday, September 01, 2016Scott 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. […]
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Today is International Overdose Awareness Day
Wednesday, August 31, 2016OSI 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 […]
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Can Universal Basic Income Fix Our Economy and End Poverty?
Friday, August 26, 2016As new technologies change – and potentially disrupt – the labor economy, how can lower and middle income families stay afloat? In 2010, Andy Stern, Ronald O. Perelman Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s Richman Center and Open Society Foundations Board Member, stepped down as president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) – one of the fastest growing unions in recent […]
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OSI-Baltimore Statement on the BPD’s Aerial Surveillance Program
Thursday, August 25, 2016Media Advisory Contact Evan Serpick 410-234-1091 Open Society Institute-Baltimore is deeply troubled by revelations that the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) has been conducting a covert surveillance program in the skies above our city since January. OSI-Baltimore calls for the Baltimore Police Department to come forward with a complete disclosure of the program so that it […]
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OSI hosts “Understanding Addiction” training for Baltimore Police
Tuesday, August 23, 2016On Thursday, OSI-Baltimore hosted its second “Understanding Addiction” training for Baltimore police officers and cadets. As The Guardian reported in its story about the training, the officers and cadets heard from people who had been directly impacted by police abuse, including Heaven Godley, who described being beaten by officers and denied medical treatment for three […]
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DOJ Talks About Consent Decree at OSI Community Meeting
Thursday, August 18, 2016Last night, about 50 people from community groups including the No Boundaries Coalition, Out for Justice, Power Inside, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Hollaback! Bmore and others, along with OSI staff, Community Fellows, and members of OSI’s Leadership Council, met with representatives from the Department of Justice (DOJ) at OSI’s office to discuss the DOJ’s […]
