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Notable criminal justice echoes of the Madoff mess

By Douglas A. Berman

The WSJ Law Blog reports hereon a notable Madoff mess echo that I had heard about from various persons working on criminal justice reform.  The post is titled "Madoff Scandal Threatens Country?s Criminal Justice Organizations," and here is the lead: Earlier this month, the JEHT Foundation? a major financial supporter of the Innocence Project in Texas, among others ? announced it would shut its doors in January because its prime donors invested with Madoff. JEHT, according to this Business Week article, is a six-year-old New York City-based philanthropy focused on juvenile and criminal justice, human rights, and election reform. As detailed at this JEHT list of criminal justice grantees, many of the great organizations doing important sentencing-related work ? like the Death Penalty Information Center and Families Against Mandatory Minimums and The Sentencing Project and the Vera Institute of Justice  ? have received some funding from JEHT in recent years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).