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Faith in Texas — Criminal Justice Reform Work

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  • Focus Area: Criminal Justice Reform
  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Organization Name: Faith in Texas
  • Amount: $250,000

  • Award Date: August 2018

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    Faith in Texas leaders and clergy gather outside of the Dallas county jail during a night of bailouts. (Photo courtesy of Faith in Texas)

    Grant investigator: Chloe Cockburn

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Faith in Texas staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.

    The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $250,000 to Faith in Texas to support criminal justice reform work, including prosecutorial accountability. This funding is intended to support organizing faith communities for accountability in the lead-up to and aftermath of district attorney elections this fall, and organizing for statewide legislative work in 2019. Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform, believes it is important to build grassroots support for criminal justice reform among members of white evangelical, black, and Hispanic faith communities, particularly in Texas, which has the largest incarcerated population of any state in the U.S. @Bureau of Justice Statistics [email protected], table 2, pg. 3

    This discretionary grant is a renewal of our September 2016 support, and falls within our focus area of criminal justice reform.

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