Organizations

Organizations Links

• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Texas Prison Abuse Campaign Advocacy, exposing abuses, links to information on many individual cases.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Wyatt A. Matthews Ministries Aims to minister to inmates, their families, and to facilitate the transition of ex-felons back into society and to promote a Biblical standard for them to live by.
  
• 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.
  
• Books to Prisoners Books To Prisoners sends free books to prisoners throughout the U.S.
  
• 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.
  
• Coalition For Federal Sentencing Reform A private group of individuals and organizations concerned about justice in America. Site includes mission statement, links, background information on sentencing guidelines and more.
  
• 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. Site includes history, upcoming events, membership information and more.
  
• 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.
  
• Bryan Federal Prison Camp News & Resources Online An all-volunteer effort on the part of family members and other loved ones of inmates incarcerated at the Bryan Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. Our goal is to provide information, support and assistance to both inmates and families of inmates that will make the impact of incarceration somewhat easier to bear.
  
• Release Into Prison A forum for those wishing to engage with the issues of spirituality in the jails at the heart of England.
  
• 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.
  
• Prisoners Education Trust Prisoners Education Trust supports distance learning for UK prisoners by offering grants to buy correspondence courses. The aim of the Trust is to reduce offending through education.
  
• 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.
  
• 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 includes contact information and details on the Vigil to Oppose the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
  
• 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 released.
  
• AdvoCare WebFlash Prisoner support and education. Providing legal updates to prisoners, their family members and the general public.
  
• 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, and contact information.
  
• AZ Prison Reform Committee A committee to help bring about change in the AZ prison system for humane treatment of prisoners and their families withour risking the safety of the public.
  
• Inside These Walls Gives the perspective of an ex-offender who has seen the Illionis Department of Corrections policies.
  
• 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.
  
• 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, and their families. Transformative justice addresses the needs of victims, offenders and communities by making our basic goal healing, NOT revenge!" Site includes info on Rittpals prison pen pals, JustRitt News, and International Conference on Penal Abolition.
  
• 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.
  
• Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) Information and Resource Center Restorative justice and victim-offender mediation articles, training, consulting. Expertise with violent crimes, including homicides, drunk driving fatality cases.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• PrisonSucks.Com Research on the prison industrial complex and crime control industry
  
• JusticeWorks Community A not-for-profit organization that advocates on behalf of female prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families.
  
• 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.
  
• Critical Resistance Critical Resistance is a national organization dedicated to opposing the expansion of 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Restorative Justice Ministry Network A nation-wide directory of Criminal Justice Ministries. Free listing to any Criminal Justice Ministries. Web-sites for Criminal Justice Minsitries.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.