Gideon's Promise, formerly the Southern Public Defender Training Center, is a non-profit organization founded in 2007 with a fellowship from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.Soros funds GP
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, and provides ongoing continuing education programs for law school students, new

public defender A public defender is a lawyer appointed to represent people who otherwise cannot reasonably afford to hire a lawyer to defend themselves in a trial. Several countries provide people with public defenders, including the UK, Hungary and Singapore, ...

s, senior public defenders, law school clinicians and chief public defenders. The organization partners with public defender offices around the country to implement best practices in public defense. In the fall of 2014, president and founder

Jonathan Rapping Jonathan A. Rapping is an American criminal defense attorney, founder and president of Gideon's Promise, professor of law at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, and visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. Rapping received the MacArthu ...

partnered with the state of Maryland in an attempt to improve statewide public defense. Rapping was honored in 2014 as a

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for his work with Gideon's Promise.

References

* Martin, Michel
"Does Equal Justice For All Include The Poor?"
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'', D.C., 5 November 2013. * McCormack, Simon
"One Man's Fight To Change The Justice System"
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'', D.C.,15 April 2014. * Camilerri, Ricky
"Fighting The Deep South Criminal Justice System"
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'', D.C., 24 June 2013. * MacArthur Foundation
"Meet the Class of 2014"
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", Chicago, 17 September 2014.

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.gideonspromise.org/ Non-profit organizations based in Georgia (U.S. state) Prison reform Civil rights organizations in the United States Criminal justice reform Criminal defense organizations