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College and Community Fellowship
Helps formerly incarcerated women to continue with college by providing mentoring, counseling, stipends, and tutoring. Based at the City University of New York. [Flash]
Restorative Justice Online
A clearing house of information including research tools, bibliographies, training, tutorials and expert articles.
Native American Prisoners Pen Pal Network
Dedicated to Native American prisoners.
Stop Prisoner Rape
Dedicated to combating the rape of male and female prisoners and providing such assistance as they can to survivors of jailhouse rape.
Voice of the People, by Matt Gray and Associates
The Peoples' tool for effecting a representative government. Providing the essential tools for constituents to help themselves in realizing the needs of their community.
Justice Policy Institute
Washington, D.C.-based think-tank committed to reducing society's reliance on incarceration.
Northern California Service League
NCSL, a non-profit agency, works to reduce crime by providing counseling, job placement, Life Skills training, transitional housing, and social services to jail inmates, prisoners, and ex-offenders. Site includes sections on programs and services, links,
Prison Information UK
Publishes The Prisons Handbook and maintains the Institute of Prison Law.
Rittenhouse: New Vision of Transformative Justice
Rittenhouse works to develop healing transformative justice (instead of the retributive justice of our present criminal justice system). "We believe crime can become an opportunity to bring positive transformation into the lives of victims, offenders
The November Coalition
The November Coalition is a non-profit, grassroots organization which is educating the public about the destructive increase in prison population in the United States due to our current drug laws.
Postcards from Prison
Many images to send as postcards. "Provides the opportunity to break out and escape the tedium of work, school or home using images of prison and punishment. A prisons bookstore is also available.
NACRO
The National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. Works with ex-offenders, disadvantaged people and deprived communities. Includes campaign news and events diary.
Mercy for Mom
Two sons campaign to get executive clemency for their mother, 66-year-old Marie La Pinta, imprisoned in New York for nearly 19 years in connection with the shooting death of their father.
Californians United For Justice
Grassroots umbrella organization for all groups, organizations and individuals dedicated to prison reform in California.
The Real Cost of Prisons Project
Explores the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, their family, community and the nation. Includes discussion papers and details of workshops.
Restorative Justice Ministry Network
A nation-wide directory of criminal justice ministries. Free listing to any criminal justice ministries. Web-sites for criminal justice ministries.
Help and Advice for Relatives of Prisoners
HARP offers help and advice to relatives of prisoners in East Anglia, UK. As well as answering common questions about the subject the site has a databases of over 250 other organisations which can help.
Human Rights Watch Prison Project: Prison Conditions and the Treatment of Prisoners
Information on prison conditions around the world, international human rights standards applicable to prisoners, and prison-related activities of the U.N. and other organizations.
National Association for Lay Visiting
Describing the work of Lay Visitors and issues surrounding Lay Visiting to Police Stations to check on the welfare of those in detention. Based in the UK.
International Centre for Prison Studies
Assists governments and NGOs develop appropriate policies on prisons and the use of imprisonment. Based at Kings College in the UK. Publishes the World Prison Brief
CURE, Virginia
Non-profit , membership advocacy organization for prisoners and their families.
Prison Policy Initiative
Produces original research on incarceration policy and the hidden impact of society's reliance on prisons as a catch-all response to social problems.
Free Stacey Lannert
This is the web site of an organization dedicated to obtaining executive clemency for Stacey Ann Lannert, incarcerated for life in Missouri prisons for killing her sexually abusive father
Prison Action Committee Community Re-Entry Program
Information about the Prison Action Committee's work in Illinois to help ex-offenders reintegrate into society.
Prison Activist Resource Center
The source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system. Educational and activist resources, news, alerts and analysis.
JusticeWorks Community
A not-for-profit organization that advocates on behalf of female prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families.
Prisoners Advocacy Committee: Challenge Injustice in Virginia
PAC's mission is to present a sociological connection between today's prisoners and yesterday's slaves. Articles, and advocacy.
Murder Victims Families For Reconciliation
MVFR opposes the death penalty and works to change the criminal justice system. MVFR works actively in the areas of Public Education, Policy Reform and Victim Support. Includes history, upcoming events, and membership information.
Books Not Bars
Works to expose and end the over-incarceration of youth and build a "bottom-up" movement to transform the entire criminal justice system.
Conextions: Substance Abuse and Related Health and Policy Issues
Lectures, workshops and consulting on substance abuse and related health and policy issues. Given in prisons in NY/NJ/CT areas by highly successful former prisoners and recovering addicts experienced in relapse prevention and motivational speaking.
Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance is a national organization dedicated to opposing the expansion of the prison industrial complex.
Canadian Families and Corrections Network
The CFCN provides information and referral services to support families during and after incarceration. Site includes contact information, links and numerous resources.
Upstate Coalition for Parole Restoration
A grassroots organization which is working with legislation to change some of the current practices in the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex.
Equal Justice USA, A Project of the Quixote Center
Equal Justice USA works to abolish the death penalty through its Moratorium Now campaign; works for human rights in the U.S. justice system. Site includes news, campaign resources, and links.
The Sentencing Project
Information about crime, courts, sentencing, criminal justice policy analysis, punishment, alternatives to incarceration, jails, prisons, race, economic class, and reform. Technical assistance, training, publications available.
Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Non-profit international human rights group. Educates on alternatives to the death penalty worldwide, with a special focus on the USA. Offers free webpages and penpal requests to death row inmates.
AdvoCare Flash
Prisoner support and education. Providing legal updates to prisoners, their family members and the general public.
United for No Injustice, Oppression or Neglect
Membership organization in California that takes "mainstream, NOT radical efforts" to reform the prison system. Many resources and links.
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
A coalition seeking alternatives to mass incarceration. Includes news and membership information.
Prison Book Program
Sends free literature books to prisoners throughout the USA. Includes mission statement, history and program restrictions.
Koch Crime Institute
A privately-funded research and policy organization which studies the criminal justice system and identifies the best ways to reduce and prevent crime, especially juvenile crime.
Middle Ground Prison Reform, Inc
Arizona based non-profit advocacy organization. Includes campaign details and a review of recent legislation.
Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice
The Fund supports the WMK Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, celebrates our heroes at an annual awards evening, and makes grants to fierce and energetic projects to help guarantee the legacy of William Moses Kunstler. Site incl
PrisonSucks.Com
Research on the prison industrial complex and crime control industry
Women's Prison Book Project
Provides women in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education (dictionaries, and GED) to politics, history, and women's health. Based in Minneapolis, MN.
Jewish Prisoner Services International
Outreach and services to Jewish prisoners. Site includes information on their activities, pen pal program, How You Can Help section and links.
UNLOCK - National Association of Ex-Offenders
Campaigns for better facilities for serving prisoners, and to support ex-offenders in rebuilding their lives. Includes campaign news.
Families to Amend California's Three-Strikes
FACTS's purpose is to amend the 3-Strikes law in California so it is only applicable to violent felonies. Site includes news, events calendar, links, and background information.
JUSTICE ACTION - Australia
Information concerning New South Wales prisons and statistics, extensive criminal justice links and resources, JA issues and campaigns, Framed magazine and the International Conference on Penal Abolition and others.
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
National organization of citizens working to repeal federal and state mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial discretion. Site includes news, photos, and background information.
The Claremont Forum
This non-profit organization sponsors diverse community services, such as The Prison Library Project, a Wellness by Design program, and educational and arts programming.
CUADP
CUADP works to find alernatives to the death penalty through abolitionist campaigns to stop capital punishment. Many resources and links to other anti-death penalty groups.
Coalition For Federal Sentencing Reform
A private group of individuals and organizations concerned about justice in America. Includes mission statement, links, and background information on sentencing guidelines.
Inside These Walls
Gives the perspective of an ex-offender who has seen the Illinois Department of Corrections policies.
The Howard League for Penal Reform
The Howard League works for humane and rational reform of the penal system. We research and comment on criminal justice policy and practice, holding conferences and debates, publishing books and reports. We also run projects in schools and prisons.
SHARP: Help and Advice for the Relatives of UK Prisoners
Help and advice for the relatives and friends of UK prisoners and those accused of a crime, based in Shropshire England but available to anyone in the UK. Site includes news, contact information, and listing of services available.
Vegan Prisoners Support Group
Offers advice and support to vegan inmates.
After seventeen years...
Oregon-based prison reform organization - feels that the rules and regulations governing inmates' lives should be tempered with a little humanity, that prisons should be designed so that inmates have a chance to reshape their lives before they are release
Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Chicago-based activist group that works against the brutality of control unit prisons. Site includes literature on prisons and racism, publications by the group, and links.
Prison Book Project
A collective of volunteers distributing free books to U.S. prisoners. Northampton, MA based 501(c)3 non-profit.
Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants
Membership organization for families and prisoners, with the goal of reforming the use of prison, and helping rehabilitate prisoners. Includes newsletter, campaign details, and contact details for chapters.
Helps formerly incarcerated women to continue with college by providing mentoring, counseling, stipends, and tutoring. Based at the City University of New York. [Flash]
A clearing house of information including research tools, bibliographies, training, tutorials and expert articles.
Dedicated to Native American prisoners.
Dedicated to combating the rape of male and female prisoners and providing such assistance as they can to survivors of jailhouse rape.
The Peoples' tool for effecting a representative government. Providing the essential tools for constituents to help themselves in realizing the needs of their community.
Washington, D.C.-based think-tank committed to reducing society's reliance on incarceration.
NCSL, a non-profit agency, works to reduce crime by providing counseling, job placement, Life Skills training, transitional housing, and social services to jail inmates, prisoners, and ex-offenders. Site includes sections on programs and services, links,
Publishes The Prisons Handbook and maintains the Institute of Prison Law.
Rittenhouse works to develop healing transformative justice (instead of the retributive justice of our present criminal justice system). "We believe crime can become an opportunity to bring positive transformation into the lives of victims, offenders
The November Coalition is a non-profit, grassroots organization which is educating the public about the destructive increase in prison population in the United States due to our current drug laws.
Many images to send as postcards. "Provides the opportunity to break out and escape the tedium of work, school or home using images of prison and punishment. A prisons bookstore is also available.
The National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. Works with ex-offenders, disadvantaged people and deprived communities. Includes campaign news and events diary.
Two sons campaign to get executive clemency for their mother, 66-year-old Marie La Pinta, imprisoned in New York for nearly 19 years in connection with the shooting death of their father.
Grassroots umbrella organization for all groups, organizations and individuals dedicated to prison reform in California.
Explores the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, their family, community and the nation. Includes discussion papers and details of workshops.
A nation-wide directory of criminal justice ministries. Free listing to any criminal justice ministries. Web-sites for criminal justice ministries.
HARP offers help and advice to relatives of prisoners in East Anglia, UK. As well as answering common questions about the subject the site has a databases of over 250 other organisations which can help.
Information on prison conditions around the world, international human rights standards applicable to prisoners, and prison-related activities of the U.N. and other organizations.
Describing the work of Lay Visitors and issues surrounding Lay Visiting to Police Stations to check on the welfare of those in detention. Based in the UK.
Assists governments and NGOs develop appropriate policies on prisons and the use of imprisonment. Based at Kings College in the UK. Publishes the World Prison Brief
Non-profit , membership advocacy organization for prisoners and their families.
Produces original research on incarceration policy and the hidden impact of society's reliance on prisons as a catch-all response to social problems.
This is the web site of an organization dedicated to obtaining executive clemency for Stacey Ann Lannert, incarcerated for life in Missouri prisons for killing her sexually abusive father
Information about the Prison Action Committee's work in Illinois to help ex-offenders reintegrate into society.
The source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system. Educational and activist resources, news, alerts and analysis.
A not-for-profit organization that advocates on behalf of female prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families.
PAC's mission is to present a sociological connection between today's prisoners and yesterday's slaves. Articles, and advocacy.
MVFR opposes the death penalty and works to change the criminal justice system. MVFR works actively in the areas of Public Education, Policy Reform and Victim Support. Includes history, upcoming events, and membership information.
Works to expose and end the over-incarceration of youth and build a "bottom-up" movement to transform the entire criminal justice system.
Lectures, workshops and consulting on substance abuse and related health and policy issues. Given in prisons in NY/NJ/CT areas by highly successful former prisoners and recovering addicts experienced in relapse prevention and motivational speaking.
Critical Resistance is a national organization dedicated to opposing the expansion of the prison industrial complex.
The CFCN provides information and referral services to support families during and after incarceration. Site includes contact information, links and numerous resources.
A grassroots organization which is working with legislation to change some of the current practices in the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex.
Equal Justice USA works to abolish the death penalty through its Moratorium Now campaign; works for human rights in the U.S. justice system. Site includes news, campaign resources, and links.
Information about crime, courts, sentencing, criminal justice policy analysis, punishment, alternatives to incarceration, jails, prisons, race, economic class, and reform. Technical assistance, training, publications available.
Non-profit international human rights group. Educates on alternatives to the death penalty worldwide, with a special focus on the USA. Offers free webpages and penpal requests to death row inmates.
Prisoner support and education. Providing legal updates to prisoners, their family members and the general public.
Membership organization in California that takes "mainstream, NOT radical efforts" to reform the prison system. Many resources and links.
A coalition seeking alternatives to mass incarceration. Includes news and membership information.
Sends free literature books to prisoners throughout the USA. Includes mission statement, history and program restrictions.
A privately-funded research and policy organization which studies the criminal justice system and identifies the best ways to reduce and prevent crime, especially juvenile crime.
Arizona based non-profit advocacy organization. Includes campaign details and a review of recent legislation.
The Fund supports the WMK Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, celebrates our heroes at an annual awards evening, and makes grants to fierce and energetic projects to help guarantee the legacy of William Moses Kunstler. Site incl
Research on the prison industrial complex and crime control industry
Provides women in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education (dictionaries, and GED) to politics, history, and women's health. Based in Minneapolis, MN.
Outreach and services to Jewish prisoners. Site includes information on their activities, pen pal program, How You Can Help section and links.
Campaigns for better facilities for serving prisoners, and to support ex-offenders in rebuilding their lives. Includes campaign news.
FACTS's purpose is to amend the 3-Strikes law in California so it is only applicable to violent felonies. Site includes news, events calendar, links, and background information.
Information concerning New South Wales prisons and statistics, extensive criminal justice links and resources, JA issues and campaigns, Framed magazine and the International Conference on Penal Abolition and others.
National organization of citizens working to repeal federal and state mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial discretion. Site includes news, photos, and background information.
This non-profit organization sponsors diverse community services, such as The Prison Library Project, a Wellness by Design program, and educational and arts programming.
CUADP works to find alernatives to the death penalty through abolitionist campaigns to stop capital punishment. Many resources and links to other anti-death penalty groups.
A private group of individuals and organizations concerned about justice in America. Includes mission statement, links, and background information on sentencing guidelines.
Gives the perspective of an ex-offender who has seen the Illinois Department of Corrections policies.
The Howard League works for humane and rational reform of the penal system. We research and comment on criminal justice policy and practice, holding conferences and debates, publishing books and reports. We also run projects in schools and prisons.
Help and advice for the relatives and friends of UK prisoners and those accused of a crime, based in Shropshire England but available to anyone in the UK. Site includes news, contact information, and listing of services available.
Offers advice and support to vegan inmates.
Oregon-based prison reform organization - feels that the rules and regulations governing inmates' lives should be tempered with a little humanity, that prisons should be designed so that inmates have a chance to reshape their lives before they are release
Chicago-based activist group that works against the brutality of control unit prisons. Site includes literature on prisons and racism, publications by the group, and links.
A collective of volunteers distributing free books to U.S. prisoners. Northampton, MA based 501(c)3 non-profit.
Membership organization for families and prisoners, with the goal of reforming the use of prison, and helping rehabilitate prisoners. Includes newsletter, campaign details, and contact details for chapters.
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