The Open Society Institute is accepting applications for its Sentencing and Incarceration Alternatives Project.

Funding will go to groups that:

• promote alternatives to incarceration that emphasize rehabilitation and treatment;
• support campaigns, research, and policies seeking to end race and class disparities in sentencing and incarceration;
• reduce the length of criminal sentences and promote judicial discretion in sentencing;
• limit prison growth and prison privatization; and
• empower communities most affected by mass incarceration to develop and advocate for alternative policies that address underlying social, racial, and economic inequality.

Funds are available for grassroots/community-led advocacy, constituency-building and mobilization; coalition building; public education; impact litigation; policy-driven research and analysis; and leadership development. Nonprofits, schools, government agencies and others may apply.

For full details, see the OSI website.