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Charles Koch Foundation Gives $2.2M to Penn Law

A foundation named after conservative businessman, political donor and philanthropist Charles Koch has donated $2.2 million to the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s research and policy center created four years ago to promote long-term structural improvements to the U.S. criminal justice system.

The gift from the Charles Koch Foundation will enable the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice to produce innovative new research that improves criminal justice policy in jurisdictions, the school said. the funds will be distributed over the next four years.

The Quattrone Center takes an interdisciplinary, data-driven, scientific approach to identifying and analyzing the biggest problems in the justice system, and proposing solutions that prevent error and improve fairness.

“With the generous support of the Charles Koch Foundation, the Quattrone Center will expand on its groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary work advancing the study of criminal justice,” Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger said in a statement. “These efforts will help victims of injustice caught within the criminal justice system.”

The funding for the Quattrone Center will create a research initiative overseen and administered by its academic director, Paul Heaton, an economist who uses quantitative methods to study issues in legal and criminal justice policy.

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