| Addiction & Recovery | The Addiction Center | |
| Addiction & Recovery | The Recovery Village | |
| Addiction & Recovery | AddictionResource.net | |
| Addiction & Recovery | Start Your Recovery | |
| Addiction & Recovery | RehabSpot.com7+ Tips on How to Find a Job After Rehab | |
| Arts & Media | Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project | Dead Man Walking changed the conversation about the death penalty in the USA. |
| Arts & Media | Incarcerated Flavors | Publish Literary/Art Work of previously or currently incarcerated people, family members and friends via Web/Incarcerated Flavors Magazine. |
| Arts & Media | Jean Trounstine | Author, teacher, prison activist – posts to enlighten, engage or even enrage–about the criminal justice system in the U.S — and at times about the larger issues that touch all of us. |
| Arts & Media | Prison Arts in the News | For sometime now I have been collecting snippets of info from the web relating to the arts in prison. I do not offer any editorial comment on the quality of each link – I just wanted to put the them all in one place. |
| Arts & Media | Rehabilitation Through the Arts | RTA is dedicated to using the creative arts as a tool for social and cognitive transformation behind prison walls. RTA changes lives! |
| Arts & Media | Shakespeare Behind Bars | Established to provide a forum for the artistic, managerial, educational leadership for theatres primarily involved with the production of the works of William Shakespeare. |
| Arts & Media | Stella Adler School of Acting at Rikers Island | tella Adler Outreach Division launched an innovative new program at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. |
| Arts & Media | The Cosmic Spirit | Free, non-religious monthly publication for incarcerated women looking to transcend. It includes inspirational quotes, articles, yoga (for the cell), meditations, art, affirmations, word search puzzles and anything else we can include. |
| Arts & Media | The New Press | The New Press publishes books that promote and enrich public discussion and understanding of the issues vital to our democracy and to a more equitable world. |
| Arts & Media | The Prison Creative Arts Project | The Prison Creative Arts Project’s mission is to collaborate with incarcerated adults, incarcerated youth, urban youth and the formerly incarcerated to strengthen our community through creative expression. |
| Arts & Media | Thousand Kites | Thousand Kites is a community-based performance, web, video and radio project centered on the United States prison system. |
| Arts & Media | Transforming Lives Behind Bars Through the Arts | 10,000 hours of arts programming in 14 state prisons in the first year, and even more planned for the following year. |
| Arts & Media | Voices of Witness | Non-profit dedicated to fostering a more nuanced, empathy-based understanding of contemporary human rights crises. We do this by amplifying the voices of men and women most closely affected by injustice, and by providing training support to educators. |
| Blogroll | Death Penalty News | Daily updated news about the death penalty worldwide. Striving for a world without capital punishment. |
| Blogroll | Equal Justice Initiative | Our hero, Bryan Stevenson’s organization |
| Blogroll | Fault Lines | Monitoring America’s criminal justice system. |
| Blogroll | Grits for Breakfast | Grits for Breakfast looks at the Texas criminal justice system, with a little politics and whatever else suits the author’s fancy thrown in. |
| Blogroll | Jean Trounstine | Author, teacher, prison activist – posts to enlighten, engage or even enrage–about the criminal justice system in the U.S — and at times about the larger issues that touch all of us. |
| Blogroll | Paul Modrowski Blog | Paul was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole at age 18 on an “accountability” theory for supposedly lending his car to a friend who supposedly murdered a man– although the friend was acquitted by a different jury. |
| Blogroll | PPI Blog | Prison Policy Initiative Blogs about prison policy and gerrymandering, |
| Blogroll | Prison Blog: Diary of a Wimpy Con | Leigh is a lawyer and convicted felon currently serving time. He writes about his experiences with the criminal justice system. |
| Blogroll | Mt. Tamalpai College (Formerly: Prison University Project) | The mission of the Prison University Project is to provide excellent higher education programs to people incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison |
| Blogroll | Razor Wire Women | Blog about women, prison, the arts, and activism. |
| Blogroll | Simple Justice | Texas criminal defense blog |
| Blogroll | Solitary Watch | Web-based project aimed at bringing the widespread use of solitary confinement out of the shadows and into the light of the public square. |
| Blogroll | The Counted (People Killed by Police) | A project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died. |
| Books for Inmates | Appalachian Prison Book Project | Nonprofit organization that sends free books to women and men who are imprisoned in the Appalachian region – West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. |
| Books for Inmates | Arizona's Books-to-Prisoners Program | We focus on getting free books directly into the hands of incarcerated women and men in the state of Arizona. |
| Books for Inmates | Athens Books To Prisoners | Volunteer run organization that sends free books to prisoners in Ohio upon request. |
| Books for Inmates | Beehive Books Behind Bars (New Jersey) | We match book requests prisoners send us in the mail to books that have been donated to us. |
| Books for Inmates | Pittsburgh Prison Book Project (Formerly Book ‘Em) | Book ‘Em is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that sends free educational books and quality reading material to prisoners in Pennsylvania. |
| Books for Inmates | Books Between The Bars | We are a free book program for inmates in the TDCJ system. |
| Books for Inmates | Books Through Bars | We provide small packages of books to individual prisoners in the Mid-Atlantic region: PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA, and WV |
| Books for Inmates | Books Through Bars NYC | NYC Books Through Bars is an all volunteer-run collective that sends free books to incarcerated people across the country. |
| Books for Inmates | Books To Prisoners | Seattle-based nonprofit organization that sends free books to prisoners across the United States. For prisoners with vision issues, BTP supports donation of reading glasses to prisons in King County, Washington. |
| Books for Inmates | Chicago Books to Women in Prison | Chicago Books to Women in Prison is a volunteer collective that distributes paperback books free of charge to people incarcerated in women’s prisons nationwide. |
| Books for Inmates | Claremont Forum | A Non-Profit Community Organization sponsoring the nationwide Prison Library Project. |
| Books for Inmates | DC Books to Prisons Project | Packages go to prisoners in 150 different prisons in all 50 states. |
| Books for Inmates | Inside Prison Books Project | Austin-based community service volunteer organization that sends free books and educational materials to prisoners in Texas. |
| Books for Inmates | LGBT Books to Prisoners | We are a donation-funded, volunteer-run organization based in Madison, WI that sends books and other educational materials, free of charge, to LGBTQ-identified prisoners across the United States. |
| Books for Inmates | Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners | non-profit effort to correspond with inmates and mail them free books. |
| Books for Inmates | Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project | By providing free reading materials upon request, we hope to promote rehabilitation and reintegration rather than punishment, and to stimulate critical thinking behind bars. |
| Books for Inmates | National Prisoner Resource List | Addresses & contact info for groups, organizations, magazines, newsletters, etc., related to prisoners and prison issues. |
| Books for Inmates | Open Books Bookstore in Pensacola, Florida | The Prison Book Project currently sends around 6,000 books each year to indigent inmates in Florida prisons, the largest prison system in the country – sorely lacking in-house book collections. |
| Books for Inmates | Prison Book Program | Prison Book Program is a grassroots organization that exists for one purpose—to send free books to prisoners. |
| Books for Inmates | Prison Books Collective | Chapel Hill, NC-based anti-prison group that sends hundreds of books to prisoners in the South each month, maintains an extensive radical ‘zine catalog, widely distributes a monthly poster promoting political prisoner support, and publishes prisoners’ |
| Books for Inmates | Prisoners Literature Project | All-volunteer grassroots group that sends free books to prisoners in the United States. |
| Books for Inmates | Providence Books Through Bars | Grass roots, non-profit, all volunteer prison book program established in 2003. |
| Books for Inmates | Reading Reduces Recidivism: Books to Prison Libraries | The 3R’s (Reading Reduces Recidivism) Project is a statewide effort to build the library resources available to adult prisoners in the 27 prisons in the state of Illinois. |
| Books for Inmates | Real Cost of Prisons Project | Suggested reading list from the Real Cost of Prisons |
| Books for Inmates | Serve the People Political Books for Prisoners Program | The Maoist Internationalist Movement has sent hundreds of thousands of pieces of literature to prisoners over decades. |
| Books for Inmates | Spring Grass Book’Em | Spring Grass Book’Em–a project of The Big Idea Book Store and now a ministry of an Episcopal church–has been sending educational books, magazines, and quality fiction to U.S. prisoners for years, and we LOVE to do it and inmates love to receive’em |
| Books for Inmates | UC Books to Prisoners | Urbana Illinois based project providing books to Illinois inmates at no cost by mail as well as through two county jail libraries which we operate. |
| Books for Inmates | Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners | Provides books to inmates in Illinois by recycling donated books. |
| Buddhist Resources | Buddha, Dharma and Sangha in U.S. Prisons | Resources from The Mindfulness Bell |
| Buddhist Resources | Buddhist Peace Fellowship | Aware of the interconnectedness of all things, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship cultivates conditions for peace, social justice, and environmental sustainability within our selves, our communities, and the world. |
| Buddhist Resources | Buddhist Resource Directory for Prisoners | Friends, this resource directory is our way of extending compassion and assistance to you in a way that will hopefully bring some practical benefit and upliftment in this challenging time of your life. |
| Buddhist Resources | Insight Prison Project | IPP currently conducts 25 weekly classes at San Quentin State Prison, involving some 300 prisoners, as well classes in 15 other prisons in California, Massachusetts, and Colorado. |
| Buddhist Resources | Meditation in Prison | Buddhist Resources for Prisoners |
| Buddhist Resources | North American Vipassana Prison Project | The North American Vipassana Prison Trust (VPT) offers 10-day programs in Vipassana meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin at correctional facilities in North America. |
| Buddhist Resources | Prison Mindfulness Institute | We favor the healing and transformational paradigm of the Restorative and Transformative Justice models of criminal justice. |
| Buddhist Resources | Shambhala Prison Program (Portland, OR) | providing mindfulness-based meditation programs for the inmates at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. |
| Buddhist Resources | The Human Kindness Foundation | HKF’s Prison-Ashram Project sends free books to inmates all over the world. Books are about interfaith spirituality, and most of our materials were written by the late Bo Lozoff. |
| Buddhist Resources | The Lionheart Foundation | Dedicated to providing emotional literacy education programs to incarcerated adults, highly at-risk youth and teen parents in order to significantly alter their life course. |
| Buddhist Resources | The National Buddhist Prison Sangha | The National Buddhist Prison Sangha (NBPS) is a nationwide network of Buddhist volunteers who correspond with inmates, visit prisons, and create and lead practice groups. |
| Buddhist Resources | Upaya Prison Outreach Program | The mission of the Project is to teach meditation and other mindfulness practices as a means of ending the cycle of addiction, violence and incarceration for men, women and youths. |
| Buddhist Resources | Vipassana For Correction Facilities | This is a special website related to the courses in Vipassana Meditation as taught by Mr. S.N. Goenka that are conducted from time to time within prisons and other correction environments. |
| Capital Punishment | 90 Million Strong | Seeks to mobilize and engage the millions of Americans who oppose the death penalty to bring about an end to the practice once and for all. |
| Capital Punishment | ACLU CPP | The ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project promotes both abolition and systemic reform of the death penalty process |
| Capital Punishment | Amnesty International | By working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International aims to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted by human error. |
| Capital Punishment | Centurion Ministries | Centurion Ministries’ mission is to free from prison those innocent individuals who had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the crimes for which they were convicted and sentenced to either life or death. |
| Capital Punishment | Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project | Dead Man Walking changed the conversation about the death penalty in the USA. |
| Capital Punishment | Death Penalty Information Center | Analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. |
| Capital Punishment | Death Penalty News | Daily updated news about the death penalty worldwide. Striving for a world without capital punishment. |
| Capital Punishment | Equal Justice Initiative | Our hero, Bryan Stevenson’s organization |
| Capital Punishment | Equal Justice USA | National organization that works to make the criminal justice system more fair, effective, and responsive by ending the death penalty, strengthening programs that help crime survivors, and enacting common sense criminal justice reforms. |
| Capital Punishment | Journey of Hope | Led by murder victim family members that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty. |
| Capital Punishment | Lifespark | Lifespark co-operates with other national and international organisations which share the same goal: the abolition of the death penalty worldwide! |
| Capital Punishment | Ministry Against the Death Penalty | The Ministry Against the Death Penalty believes in the dignity of all people and fosters creative, reflective and educational programs that awaken hearts and minds, inspire social change, and strengthen our democracy’s commitment to human rights. |
| Capital Punishment | Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation | Our work includes providing a wider variety of supports for family members of murder victims who opposed the death penalty and advocating for their needs as victims/survivors of homicide |
| Capital Punishment | MVFHR | MVFHR is an international, non-governmental organization of family members of murder victims and family members of the executed, all of whom oppose the death penalty in all cases. |
| Capital Punishment | TCADP | TCADP is a statewide, grassroots membership organization working to end the death penalty in Texas. |
| Capital Punishment | Tenesseeans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty | We seek to honor life by abolishing Tennessee’s death penalty as we urge the state not to take a human life in our name. |
| Capital Punishment | Tennessee Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty | A network of political and social conservatives who question the alignment of Tennessee’s capital punishment system with conservative principles and values. |
| Capital Punishment | The Bureau of Justice Statistics | The United States’ primary source for criminal justice statistics. |
| Children | Angel Tree | With your gift to Angel Tree, you give children of inmates the support they need all throughout the year. |
| Children | Girls Embracing Mothers | GEM’s primary focus is to empower girls in grades K-12 with mothers in prison to break the cycle of incarceration and lead successful lives with vision and purpose. |
| Children | Legal Services for Prisoners with Children | Legal Services for Prisoners with Children publishes manuals covering various issues affecting incarcerated parents in California. |
| Children | National Center For Reason And Justice | Educates and advocates for child-protective laws and criminal justice practices based on science, fairness, and good sense; and supports people who are falsely accused or convicted of crimes against children. |
| Children | Prisoners With Children | LSPC organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights and to reunify families and communities. |
| Clemency | The Clemency Project | Assists federal prisoners who meet the criteria for clemency to find lawyers to represent them. |
| Clemency | The Clemency Report | Identifying prisoners deserving shorter sentences. |
| Conferences | International Prisoner's Family Conference | The conference is significant for ALL wanting to learn and DO more to improve the quality of life for the prison family and the reintegrating prisoner. |
| Conferences | New York State Prisoner Justice Network | The goal of the New York State Prisoner Justice Network is to build our individual and collective strength and to challenge and change New York’s criminal injustice system. |
| Conferences | Prisoners United | An on-line membership resource and support project of Community Solutions, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2003 to uniquely serve the prison family |
| Conferences | The Justice Conference | Our vision is to serve the discovery of ideas, celebrate the beauty of justice, and foster a community of people who live justice together. |
| Conferences | Women in Prison Conference | This conference serves as a venue to highlight women in the criminal justice system, their needs, and the consequences of their over incarceration. |
| Education | The Inside-Out Center | Inside-Out brings college students together with incarcerated men and women to study as peers in a seminar behind prison walls. |
| Inmates' Rights | ACLU – Prisoners Rights | The National Prison Project is dedicated to ensuring that our nation’s prisons, jails, and detention centers comply with the Constitution, domestic law, and human rights principles. |
| Inmates' Rights | Action Committee For Women in Prison | Our mission is to advocate for the humane and compassionate treatment of all incarcerated women everywhere. |
| Inmates' Rights | Campaign – Heat in Texas Prisons | Monitoring and end deadly heat in Texas prisons. |
| Inmates' Rights | Lewisburg Prison Project | We counsel and assist prisoners who write to us when they encounter treatment they perceive as illegal or unfair. |
| Inmates' Rights | Texas Jail Project | The Texas Jail Project seeks to improve the conditions for approximately 65,000 people—mothers, fathers, brothers, sons, sisters, and daughters—who are incarcerated in Texas county jails. |
| Inmates' Rights | The Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights | Seeks to improve the health and human rights of criminal justice populations through education, research, and advocacy. |
| Innocence | Centurion Ministries | Centurion Ministries’ mission is to free from prison those innocent individuals who had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the crimes for which they were convicted and sentenced to either life or death. |
| Innocence | Death Penalty Information Center | Analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. |
| Innocence | Equal Justice Initiative | Our hero, Bryan Stevenson’s organization |
| Innocence | Humanity For Prisoners | Humanity for Prisoners is the only organization in the state of Michigan that works one-on-one with inmates in the Michigan prison system. We personally respond to each inquiry. |
| Innocence | National Center For Reason And Justice | Educates and advocates for child-protective laws and criminal justice practices based on science, fairness, and good sense; and supports people who are falsely accused or convicted of crimes against children. |
| Innocence | National Registry of Exonerations | Provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989. |
| Innocence | Prisoner's Family & Friends United | An on-line membership resource and support project of Community Solutions, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2003 to uniquely serve the prison family |
| Innocence | The Innocence Project | Assists prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. |
| Innocence | Witness to Innocence | The mission of WTI is to abolish the death penalty by empowering exonerated death row survivors and their loved ones to become effective leaders in the abolition movement. |
| Juvenile | Equal Justice Initiative | Our hero, Bryan Stevenson’s organization |
| Juvenile | Juvenile Justice Project | Works to reduce youth detention and incarceration, to transform the youth justice system from a punitive model into one grounded in positive youth development principles. |
| Juvenile | Reclaiming Futures | Every week Reclaiming Futures rounds up the latest news on juvenile justice reform, adolescent substance abuse treatment, and teen mental health. |
| Juvenile | The Campaign For The Fair Sentencing Of Youth | National coalition and clearinghouse that coordinates, develops and supports efforts to implement fair and age-appropriate sentences for youth, with a focus on abolishing life without parole sentences for youth. |
| Litigation | National Center For Reason And Justice | Educates and advocates for child-protective laws and criminal justice practices based on science, fairness, and good sense; and supports people who are falsely accused or convicted of crimes against children. |
| Litigation | Prison Legal News | 72-page monthly magazine that reports on criminal justice issues and prison and jail-related civil litigation, with an emphasis on prisoners’ rights. |
| Newsletters & Publications | A Little Good News | The Human Kindness Foundation’s free newsletter, ‘A Little Good News,’ is sent three times each year to our mailing list of about 40,000 people. Our newsletters are also available in Spanish. |
| Newsletters & Publications | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | CDCR Newsletter |
| Newsletters & Publications | California Prison Focus Publications | Newsletter Archive & Publications |
| Newsletters & Publications | Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter | CPR produces this important source of information and inspiration for organizing in PDF format for inmates and their families. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Compassion Works For All | Dharma Friends Newsletter Archive |
| Newsletters & Publications | The Cosmic Spirit | Free, non-religious monthly publication for incarcerated women looking to transcend. It includes inspirational quotes, articles, yoga (for the cell), meditations, art, affirmations, word search puzzles and anything else we can include. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Death Penalty Discourse | Sister Helen Prejean’s monthly newsletter. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Humanity For Prisoners | Books and monthly newsletter through Humanity For Prisoners (Michigan) |
| Newsletters & Publications | ICPS – Core Publications | |
| Newsletters & Publications | Incarcerated Flavors | Publish Literary/Art Work of previously or currently incarcerated people, family members and friends via Web/Incarcerated Flavors Magazine. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Inside Prison Books Resource Guide | Inside Books Project sends this Resource Guide free of charge to any inmate in Texas. Also available in PDF form. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Insight Prison Project – Newsletter | Newsletter Archive |
| Newsletters & Publications | Life Support Alliance Blog | Lifer-Line, and After*Life are published monthly and sent out for free by email. |
| Newsletters & Publications | National Prisoner Resource List | Addresses & contact info for groups, organizations, magazines, newsletters, etc., related to prisoners and prison issues. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Oregon CURE Newsletter | Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants |
| Newsletters & Publications | Oregon Prison Newsletters | Oregon CURE archive of newsletters from Oregon prison facilities |
| Newsletters & Publications | PARC Prisoner Resource Directory | PARC corresponds with and mails a directory of resources to prisoners, their friends and family members. |
| Newsletters & Publications | PEN’s Handbook for Writers in Prison | This is an invaluable resource to any incarcerated writer. To date, PEN has distributed 20,000 copies of the Handbook and continues to receive requests. |
| Newsletters & Publications | PLN – Email Newsletter | Sign up for Prison Legal News’ free email newsletter to get regular emails with breaking news on criminal justice-related issues, as well as advocacy/action requests and messages from PLN! |
| Newsletters & Publications | PPI – Newsletter | Subscribe to PPI’s newsletters |
| Newsletters & Publications | PPI – Reports | PPI Report Archive |
| Newsletters & Publications | Prison Books Collective | Chapel Hill, NC-based anti-prison group that sends hundreds of books to prisoners in the South each month, maintains an extensive radical ‘zine catalog, widely distributes a monthly poster promoting political prisoner support, and publishes prisoners’ |
| Newsletters & Publications | Prison Focus Newsletter | Our newsletter magazine is primarily by prisoners and for prisoners, their friends and families. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Prison Law Blog Newsletter | Free electronic newsletter exclusively for prisoners. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Prison Legal News | 72-page monthly magazine that reports on criminal justice issues and prison and jail-related civil litigation, with an emphasis on prisoners’ rights. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Solitary Watch | Web-based project aimed at bringing the widespread use of solitary confinement out of the shadows and into the light of the public square. |
| Newsletters & Publications | Texas Defender Service | TDS Publications |
| Newsletters & Publications | The Cosmic Spirit | Free, non-religious monthly publication for incarcerated women looking to transcend. It includes inspirational quotes, articles, yoga (for the cell), meditations, art, affirmations, word search puzzles and anything else we can include. |
| Newsletters & Publications | The New Press | The New Press publishes books that promote and enrich public discussion and understanding of the issues vital to our democracy and to a more equitable world. |
| Newsletters & Publications | The Sentencing Project Fact Sheets | Fact Sheets & Policy Briefs |
| Newsletters & Publications | Top 20 Principles of Organizing | A list of take-away lessons and principles, a sort of manifesto for today’s community organizers. |
| Newsletters & Publications | We the People Legal Primer | Prison Book Program publishes this popular 40-page legal primer for prisoners. |
| Organizing | Grassroots Leadership | Fights to end for-profit incarceration and reduce reliance on criminalization and detention through direct action, organizing, research, and public education. |
| Organizing | Just Leadership USA (JLUSA) | Just Leadership USA is dedicated to cutting the US prison population in half by 2030 while reducing crime. JLUSA empowers people most affected by incarceration to drive policy reform. |
| Organizing | Nation Inside | Platform that connects and supports people who are building a movement to systematically challenge mass incarceration in the United States. |
| Organizing | National Coalition of Community-Based Correctional and Community Re-entry Service Organizations | The national network of prison nonprofits. Prison and re-entry community groups |
| Organizing | Top 20 Principles of Organizing | A list of take-away lessons and principles, a sort of manifesto for today’s community organizers. |
| Organizing | Training For Change | Provides activist training for groups standing up for social, economic, and environmental justice through strategic nonviolence. |
| Parole | Prisoner's Family & Friends United | An on-line membership resource and support project of Community Solutions, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2003 to uniquely serve the prison family |
| Parole | TIFA – Texas Inmate Families Association | Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy. TIFA also provides parole workshops as well as online resources for our members. |
| Policy | Grassroots Leadership | Fights to end for-profit incarceration and reduce reliance on criminalization and detention through direct action, organizing, research, and public education. |
| Policy | ICPS – International Centre for Prison Studies | Aims to conduct research, develop and disseminate knowledge, and to inform improvements in prison policies and practice. |
| Policy | Justice Fellowship | We advance criminal justice policies that vindicate and restore victims, justly punish people convicted of crimes—including the obligation to make amends, and improve community safety. |
| Policy | Juvenile Justice Project | Works to reduce youth detention and incarceration, to transform the youth justice system from a punitive model into one grounded in positive youth development principles. |
| Policy | National Criminal Justice Association | Represents state, tribal and local governments on crime prevention and crime control issues. |
| Policy | PPI – Gerrymandering Project | PPI’s Gerrymandering Project & Blog |
| Policy | Prison Legal News | 72-page monthly magazine that reports on criminal justice issues and prison and jail-related civil litigation, with an emphasis on prisoners’ rights. |
| Policy | Texas Criminal Justice Coalition | TCJC works with peers, policy-makers, practitioners, and community members to identify and promote smart justice policies that safely reduce Texas’ costly over-reliance on incarceration |
| Policy | Texas Defender Service | Promoting a fair and just criminal justice system in Texas. |
| Policy | Texas Public Policy Foundation | The Foundation’s mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach. |
| Policy | The Bureau of Justice Statistics | The United States’ primary source for criminal justice statistics. |
| Policy | The Campaign For The Fair Sentencing Of Youth | National coalition and clearinghouse that coordinates, develops and supports efforts to implement fair and age-appropriate sentences for youth, with a focus on abolishing life without parole sentences for youth. |
| Policy | The Pew Charitable Trusts | Improving public policy, informing the public, and invigorating civic life. |
| Policy | The Sentencing Project | Working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing laws and pracice and alternatives to incarceration. |
| Policy | The Sentencing Project | The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. |
| Policy | TIFA – Texas Inmate Families Association | Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy. TIFA also provides parole workshops as well as online resources for our members. |
| Pre-Trial, Detention & Bail | Jailhouse Stories: Effects of PreTrial Detention | Texas Jail Project is collecting people’s stories about their experiences while incarcerated in a Texas county jail, before their case is decided. |
| Pre-Trial, Detention & Bail | Pretrial Justice Institute | Advancing safe, fair, and effective juvenile and adult pretrial justice practices and policies that honor and protect all people. |
| Pre-Trial, Detention & Bail | Texas Criminal Justice Coalition | TCJC works with peers, policy-makers, practitioners, and community members to identify and promote smart justice policies that safely reduce Texas’ costly over-reliance on incarceration |
| Pre-Trial, Detention & Bail | Texas Jail Project | The Texas Jail Project seeks to improve the conditions for approximately 65,000 people—mothers, fathers, brothers, sons, sisters, and daughters—who are incarcerated in Texas county jails. |
| Prison | California Coalition for Women Prisoners | Challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). |
| Prison | California Prison Focus | We are community activists, prisoners, and their families educating and inspiring the public to demand change. |
| Prison | Critical Resistance | Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC) by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. |
| Prison | CURE National (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants) | We believe that prisons should be used only for those who absolutely must be incarcerated and that those who are incarcerated should have all of the resources they need to turn their lives around. |
| Prison | Decarcerate PA | Grassroots campaign working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania. – See more at: http://www.decarceratepa.info/#sthash.3ofKJWX6.dpuf |
| Prison | Insight Prison Project | Supports incarcerated individuals in the process of understanding and developing insight into the underlying circumstances of their lives and the choices that led them to come to prison. |
| Prison | Jean Trounstine | Author, teacher, prison activist – posts to enlighten, engage or even enrage–about the criminal justice system in the U.S — and at times about the larger issues that touch all of us. |
| Prison | Legal Services for Prisoners with Children | Legal Services for Prisoners with Children publishes manuals covering various issues affecting incarcerated parents in California. |
| Prison | Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project | By providing free reading materials upon request, we hope to promote rehabilitation and reintegration rather than punishment, and to stimulate critical thinking behind bars. |
| Prison | National Prisoner Resource List | Addresses & contact info for groups, organizations, magazines, newsletters, etc., related to prisoners and prison issues. |
| Prison | New York State Prisoner Justice Network | The goal of the New York State Prisoner Justice Network is to build our individual and collective strength and to challenge and change New York’s criminal injustice system. |
| Prison | Paul Modrowski Blog | Paul was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole at age 18 on an “accountability” theory for supposedly lending his car to a friend who supposedly murdered a man– although the friend was acquitted by a different jury. |
| Prison | Prison Activist Resource Center | Prison abolitionist group based on Oakland, California |
| Prison | Prison Focus Newsletter | Our newsletter magazine is primarily by prisoners and for prisoners, their friends and families. |
| Prison | Prison Legal News | 72-page monthly magazine that reports on criminal justice issues and prison and jail-related civil litigation, with an emphasis on prisoners’ rights. |
| Prison | Prison Policy Initiative | Produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society. |
| Prison | Prisoner's Family & Friends United | An on-line membership resource and support project of Community Solutions, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2003 to uniquely serve the prison family |
| Prison | Serve the People Political Books for Prisoners Program | The Maoist Internationalist Movement has sent hundreds of thousands of pieces of literature to prisoners over decades. |
| Prison | Solitary Watch | Web-based project aimed at bringing the widespread use of solitary confinement out of the shadows and into the light of the public square. |
| Prison | The Bureau of Justice Statistics | The United States’ primary source for criminal justice statistics. |
| Prison | The Pennsylvania Prison Society | Advocates for a humane, just and restorative correctional system, and to promote a rational approach to criminal justice issues. |
| Prison | The Sentencing Project | The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. |
| Prison | TIFA – Texas Inmate Families Association | Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy. TIFA also provides parole workshops as well as online resources for our members. |
| Prison Phone Calls | Grassroots Leadership | Fights to end for-profit incarceration and reduce reliance on criminalization and detention through direct action, organizing, research, and public education. |
| Prison Phone Calls | Prison Phone Justice | Challenging prison phone kickbacks and the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry. |
| Prison Phone Calls | Prison Policy Initiative | Produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society. |
| Prison Profiteering | Stop Prison Profiteering | Join us in fighting the companies and governments that are financially exploiting prisoners and pushing the costs of mass incarceration on to the families of prisoners. |
| Prison Protest | Prison Protest | Join us in fighting the companies and governments that are financially exploiting prisoners and pushing the costs of mass incarceration on to the families of prisoners. |
| Prison Writing | Between the Bars | Weblog platform for people in prison, through which the 1% of America which is behind bars can tell their stories. |
| Prison Writing | Jean Trounstine | Author, teacher, prison activist – posts to enlighten, engage or even enrage–about the criminal justice system in the U.S — and at times about the larger issues that touch all of us. |
| Prison Writing | PEN's Annual Prison Writing Contest | PEN American Center sponsors an annual writing contest for prisoners. Anyone incarcerated in a federal, state, or county prison in the year before the September 1 deadline is eligible to enter. |
| Prison Writing | PEN’s Handbook for Writers in Prison | This is an invaluable resource to any incarcerated writer. To date, PEN has distributed 20,000 copies of the Handbook and continues to receive requests. |
| Prison Writing | Prison Books Collective | Chapel Hill, NC-based anti-prison group that sends hundreds of books to prisoners in the South each month, maintains an extensive radical ‘zine catalog, widely distributes a monthly poster promoting political prisoner support, and publishes prisoners’ |
| Prison Writing | Prison Journalism Project | |
| Prison Writing | Real Cost of Prisons | These essays were sent to the Real Cost of Prisons Project by men who are incarcerated. |
| Prison Writing | Solitary Watch | Web-based project aimed at bringing the widespread use of solitary confinement out of the shadows and into the light of the public square. |
| Prison Writing | Write A Prisoner | An organization to help prison pen-pals receive letters from free world pen-pals. |
| Re-entry | Compassion Works For All | Buddhist resources for inmates and families. |
| Re-entry | CURE National (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants) | We believe that prisons should be used only for those who absolutely must be incarcerated and that those who are incarcerated should have all of the resources they need to turn their lives around. |
| Re-entry | Justice Fellowship | We advance criminal justice policies that vindicate and restore victims, justly punish people convicted of crimes—including the obligation to make amends, and improve community safety. |
| Re-entry | Texas Criminal Justice Coalition | TCJC works with peers, policy-makers, practitioners, and community members to identify and promote smart justice policies that safely reduce Texas’ costly over-reliance on incarceration |
| Re-entry | The Pennsylvania Prison Society | Advocates for a humane, just and restorative correctional system, and to promote a rational approach to criminal justice issues. |
| Re-entry | Your Career Advantage | How to write your cover letter and résumé in a way that increases your chances of finding a job if you have a record. |
| Research | ICPS – International Centre for Prison Studies | Aims to conduct research, develop and disseminate knowledge, and to inform improvements in prison policies and practice. |
| Research | PPI – Reports | PPI Report Archive |
| Research | Prison Policy Initiative Research Clearinghouse | Databases to empower activists, journalists, and policymakers to shape effective criminal justice policy. |
| Research | The Sentencing Project Fact Sheets | Fact Sheets & Policy Briefs |
| Restorative Justice | Bridges to Life | Bridges To Life (BTL) brings healing to victims of crime, reduces recidivism among offender graduates of the program, and helps make our community a safer place. |
| Restorative Justice | From Death to Life | Dedicated to ending violence through healing and reconciliation between families of victims and those who have caused harm. |
| Restorative Justice | Insight Prison Project | Supports incarcerated individuals in the process of understanding and developing insight into the underlying circumstances of their lives and the choices that led them to come to prison. |
| Restorative Justice | Insight Prison Project | IPP currently conducts 25 weekly classes at San Quentin State Prison, involving some 300 prisoners, as well classes in 15 other prisons in California, Massachusetts, and Colorado. |
| Restorative Justice | Justice Fellowship | We advance criminal justice policies that vindicate and restore victims, justly punish people convicted of crimes—including the obligation to make amends, and improve community safety. |
| Restorative Justice | Restorative Justice Online | Restorative justice emphasizes repairing the harm caused by crime. When victims, offenders and community members meet to decide how to do that, the results can be transformational. |
| Sentencing | FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums) | A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization fighting for smart sentencing laws that protect public safety. |
| Sentencing | The Sentencing Project | Working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing laws and pracice and alternatives to incarceration. |
| Solitary Confinement | ACLU | Solitary confinement jeopardizes our public safety, is fundamentally inhumane and wastes taxpayer dollars. We must insist on humane and more cost-effective methods of punishment and prison management. |
| Solitary Confinement | Boxed In NY | Investigation into the use and consequences of extreme isolation in New York, leading to a a class-action lawsuit challenging the use of extreme isolation as unconstitutional in federal court. |
| Solitary Confinement | CCA of New York | Imagine living in a space the size of a bathroom, for months or years, without the ability to leave or go outside for 23 or 24 hours a day. |
| Solitary Confinement | Solitary Watch | Web-based project aimed at bringing the widespread use of solitary confinement out of the shadows and into the light of the public square. |
| Solitary Confinement | The wHOLE Series (short film) | |
| Support Organizations | Birth Behind Bars | Helping birth professionals across America care for pregnant inmates and their newborn child. |
| Support Organizations | Birthing Behind Bars | This is a national campaign to address pregnancy and other reproductive justice issues in prison. |
| Support Organizations | California Coalition for Women Prisoners | Challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). |
| Support Organizations | Compassion Works For All | Buddhist resources for inmates and families. |
| Support Organizations | Critical Resistance | Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC) by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. |
| Support Organizations | CUAMI (Communities United Against Mass Incarceration) | We exist to unite all those organizations and communities in Colorado that are either directly impacted by Mass Incarceration. |
| Support Organizations | Decarcerate PA | Grassroots campaign working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania. – See more at: http://www.decarceratepa.info/#sthash.3ofKJWX6.dpuf |
| Support Organizations | From Death to Life | Dedicated to ending violence through healing and reconciliation between families of victims and those who have caused harm. |
| Support Organizations | Girls Embracing Mothers | GEM’s primary focus is to empower girls in grades K-12 with mothers in prison to break the cycle of incarceration and lead successful lives with vision and purpose. |
| Support Organizations | Grassroots Leadership | Fights to end for-profit incarceration and reduce reliance on criminalization and detention through direct action, organizing, research, and public education. |
| Support Organizations | Human Kindness Foundation | To inspire and encourage prisoners and prison staff to recognize their depth as human beings, and to behave accordingly. |
| Support Organizations | Humanity For Prisoners | Humanity for Prisoners is the only organization in the state of Michigan that works one-on-one with inmates in the Michigan prison system. We personally respond to each inquiry. |
| Support Organizations | Just Leadership USA (JLUSA) | Just Leadership USA is dedicated to cutting the US prison population in half by 2030 while reducing crime. JLUSA empowers people most affected by incarceration to drive policy reform. |
| Support Organizations | Justice Not Politics | Justice Not Politics is a broad based, nonpartisan coalition of organizations and Iowans who are committed to protecting Iowa’s courts and our system of merit selection and retention. |
| Support Organizations | National Center For Reason And Justice | Educates and advocates for child-protective laws and criminal justice practices based on science, fairness, and good sense; and supports people who are falsely accused or convicted of crimes against children. |
| Support Organizations | National Coalition of Community-Based Correctional and Community Re-entry Service Organizations | The national network of prison nonprofits. Prison and re-entry community groups |
| Support Organizations | National Prisoner Resource List | Addresses & contact info for groups, organizations, magazines, newsletters, etc., related to prisoners and prison issues. |
| Support Organizations | Prison Activist Resource Center | Prison abolitionist group based on Oakland, California |
| Support Organizations | Prison Focus Newsletter | Our newsletter magazine is primarily by prisoners and for prisoners, their friends and families. |
| Support Organizations | Prison Policy Initiative | Produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society. |
| Support Organizations | Prison Talk Online Community | PrisonTalk Online web community. |
| Support Organizations | Prisoners With Children | LSPC organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights and to reunify families and communities. |
| Support Organizations | Texas Defender Service | Promoting a fair and just criminal justice system in Texas. |
| Support Organizations | The Pennsylvania Prison Society | Advocates for a humane, just and restorative correctional system, and to promote a rational approach to criminal justice issues. |
| Support Organizations | The Sentencing Project | The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. |
| Support Organizations | The Vera Institute | The Vera Institute of Justice uses its unique approach to work with government officials on a range of criminal and social justice topics |
| Support Organizations | TIFA – Texas Inmate Families Association | Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy. TIFA also provides parole workshops as well as online resources for our members. |
| Video Visitation | Grassroots Leadership | Fights to end for-profit incarceration and reduce reliance on criminalization and detention through direct action, organizing, research, and public education. |
| Video Visitation | Prison Policy Initiative | Produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society. |
| Women Incarcerated | Action Committee For Women in Prison | Our mission is to advocate for the humane and compassionate treatment of all incarcerated women everywhere. |
| Women Incarcerated | Birth Behind Bars | Helping birth professionals across America care for pregnant inmates and their newborn child. |
| Women Incarcerated | Birthing Behind Bars | This is a national campaign to address pregnancy and other reproductive justice issues in prison. |
| Women Incarcerated | California Coalition for Women Prisoners | Challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). |
| Women Incarcerated | Chicago Books to Women in Prison | Chicago Books to Women in Prison is a volunteer collective that distributes paperback books free of charge to people incarcerated in women’s prisons nationwide. |
| Women Incarcerated | Girls Embracing Mothers | GEM’s primary focus is to empower girls in grades K-12 with mothers in prison to break the cycle of incarceration and lead successful lives with vision and purpose. |
| Women Incarcerated | Jean Trounstine | Author, teacher, prison activist – posts to enlighten, engage or even enrage–about the criminal justice system in the U.S — and at times about the larger issues that touch all of us. |
| Women Incarcerated | National Prisoner Resource List | Addresses & contact info for groups, organizations, magazines, newsletters, etc., related to prisoners and prison issues. |
| Women Incarcerated | Razor Wire Women | Blog about women, prison, the arts, and activism. |
| Women Incarcerated | Solitary Watch | Web-based project aimed at bringing the widespread use of solitary confinement out of the shadows and into the light of the public square. |
| Women Incarcerated | Texas Jail Project | The Texas Jail Project seeks to improve the conditions for approximately 65,000 people—mothers, fathers, brothers, sons, sisters, and daughters—who are incarcerated in Texas county jails. |
| Women Incarcerated | The Cosmic Spirit | Free, non-religious monthly publication for incarcerated women looking to transcend. It includes inspirational quotes, articles, yoga (for the cell), meditations, art, affirmations, word search puzzles and anything else we can include. |
| Women Incarcerated | The Pennsylvania Prison Society | Advocates for a humane, just and restorative correctional system, and to promote a rational approach to criminal justice issues. |
| Women Incarcerated | The Sentencing Project | The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. |
| Women Incarcerated | Women in Prison Conference | This conference serves as a venue to highlight women in the criminal justice system, their needs, and the consequences of their over incarceration. |
| Women Incarcerated | Women's Prison Association | WPA works with women at all stages of criminal justice involvement. |
