Resources By Topic
You will find a multitude of resources for people in prison on this page. Three resource lists that are updated regularly are:
- PARC Prisoner Resource Directory
- National Prisoner Resource List (NPRL)
- Inside Books Project Resource Guide
We also love the Newsletter Prisoner Express Newsletter, published three times a year by The Human Kindness Foundation (contact them to add an inmate to their paper mailing, or print previous issues from their archives).
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Addiction & Recovery
Arts & Media
- Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
- Incarcerated Flavors
- Jean Trounstine
- Justice Art Coalition
- Art From Inside Prison Walls
- How People Make Art in Prison
- What Prison Art Exhibits Tells us About Incarceration
- Rehabilitation Through the Arts
- Shakespeare Behind Bars
- Stella Adler School of Acting at Rikers Island
- The New Press
- The Prison Creative Arts Project
- Thousand Kites
- Transforming Lives Behind Bars Through the Arts
- Voices From Within
- Voices of Witness
Blogroll
Books for Inmates
- Appalachian Prison Book Project
- Arizona’s Books-to-Prisoners Program
- Athens Books To Prisoners
- Books Behind Bars (New Jersey)
- Pittsburgh Prison Book Project (Formerly Book ‘Em)
- Books Between The Bars
- Books Through Bars (Philadelphia)
- Books Through Bars NYC
- Books To Prisoners (WA)
- Chicago Books to Women in Prison
- Claremont Forum (National)
- DC Books to Prisons Project
- Inside Prison Books Project
- LGBT Books to Prisoners
- Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners
- Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project
- Prison Book Program (MA)
- Open Books Bookstore in Pensacola, Florida
- Prison Books Collective (NC)
- Prisoners Literature Project
- Providence Books Through Bars (RI)
- Censorship in U.S. Prisons
- Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners
Buddhist Resources
- Buddha, Dharma and Sangha in U.S. Prisons
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
- Buddhist Resource Directory for Prisoners
- Insight Prison Project
- Meditation in Prison
- North American Vipassana Prison Project
- Prison Mindfulness
- Shambhala Prison Program (Portland, OR)
- The Human Kindness Foundation
- The Lionheart Foundation
- The National Buddhist Prison Sangha
- Upaya Prison Outreach Program (NM)
- Vipassana For Correction Facilities
Capital Punishment
- 90 Million Strong
- ACLU CPP
- Amnesty International
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Death Penalty News
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Equal Justice USA
- Journey of Hope
- Lifespark
- Ministry Against the Death Penalty
- Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation
- MVFHR
- Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP)
- Tenesseeans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
- Tennessee Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty
- Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
Children
Clemency
Conferences & Events
Education
- The Inside-Out Center
- Mt. Tamalpais College
- Guide to Prison Education
- Brookings.edu
- US Dept. of EducationThe effects of prison education programs: Research findings
- Unesco
- Prison Education Programs: What to Know
- Prison Studies Project – Education Opportunities in Prison Are Key to Reducing Crime
- The Lifelong Learning of Lifelong Inmates
- Vera Institute: Impacts of College in Prison
- Are Education Programs in Prison Worth It?
- Ashland University
Inmates’ Rights
Innocence
Newsletters & Publications
- HKF: A Little Good News
- Coalition for Prisoners’ Rights Newsletter
- Compassion Works For All
- The Cosmic Spirit
- Death Penalty Discourse
- Humanity For Prisoners
- ICPS – Core Publications
- Incarcerated Flavors
- Inside Prison Books Resource Guide
- Insight Prison Project – Newsletter
- Life Support Alliance Blog
- National Prisoner Resource List
- Oregon CURE Newsletter
- Oregon Prison Newsletters
- PARC Prisoner Resource Directory
- PEN’s Handbook for Writers in Prison
- PLN – Email Newsletter
- PPI – Newsletter
- PPI – Reports
- Prison Books Collective
- Prison Focus Newsletter
- Prison Legal News
- Solitary Watch
- Texas Defender Service
- The Sentencing Project Fact Sheets
Podcasts
- Behind The Wall
- Beyond Prisons
- Curtain
- Ear Hustle
- Forgotten Prison
- Inside Prison Walls
- Justice Impacted
- Life of a Lifer
- Necessary Blackness
- KBOO: Prison Pipeline
- Prison Pod
- Prison Radio
- Prison – The Hidden Sentence
- NPR: Prison Project Podcast
- NPR: Uncuffed
- NPR: Written Inside
- The Prison Post
- Reimagining Prison
- The Secret Life of Prisons
- Toward Freedom: The Power of Art Inside Prison
Policy
- Center For Effective Public Policy
- Grassroots Leadership
- How to Justice
- Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research
- Juvenile Justice Project
- National Criminal Justice Association
- Prison Policy Initiative
- Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
- Texas Defender Service
- Texas Public Policy Foundation
- The Campaign For The Fair Sentencing Of Youth
- The Sentencing Project
- TIFA – Texas Inmate Families Association
Pre-Trial, Detention & Bail
- ACLU: Bail Reform
- The Appeal: Bail Reform Explained
- A better path forward for criminal justice: Reimagining pretrial and sentencing
- Brennan Center: The Facts on Bail Reform in New York: How Pretrial Detention and Release Works Now
- The Civil Rights Implications of Cash Bail
- Justice Denied:The Harmful and Lasting Effects of Pretrial Detention
- The Marshall Project: The State of Bail Reform
- Prison Policy Institute
- Pretrial Justice Institute
- What If?—Pretrial Justice Institute’s Campaign to Spark Local Pretrial Change
- The Initial Collateral Consequences of Pretrial Detention
- Vera Institute: Justice Denied -The Harmful and Lasting Effects of Pretrial Detention
- The Effects of Pretrial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges
- Voices Of Pretrial Detention In Texas
Prison Profiteering
Prison Writing
Re-entry
Policy, Research & Stats
Restorative Justice
Reform & Advocacy
- Brennan Center for Justice
- CURE National (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants)
- Grass Roots Leadership
- How to Justice
- FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums)
- Human Rights Defense Center
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
- Nation Inside Campaigns
- Pennsylvania Prison Society
- Prison Families Alliance
- Prison Law Office
- Texas Jail Project
- The Sentencing Project
- The Vera Institute: Reimagining Prison
- Worth Rises
Solitary Confinement
Support Organizations
- California Coalition for Women Prisoners
- Compassion Works For All
- Critical Resistance
- Decarcerate PA
- Friends Outside
- How to Justice
- Humanity For Prisoners
- Just Leadership USA (JLUSA)
- Justice Not Politics (Iowa)
- National Center For Reason And Justice
- Prisoners With Children
- Texas Defender Service
- The Pennsylvania Prison Society
- The Vera Institute
- TIFA – Texas Incarcerated Families Association
Women Incarcerated
- Action Committee For Women in Prison
- Birth Behind Bars
- California Coalition for Women Prisoners
- Chicago Books to Women in Prison
- Girls Embracing Mothers
- Justice Involved Women
- Razor Wire Women
- Texas Jail Project
- The Pennsylvania Prison Society
- The Sentencing Project
- NAWJ – Women in Prison
- Women’s Justice Project
- Women’s Prison Association
Miscellaneous
- After Prison: Ten Stories of Second Changes
- Jailhouse Stories
- If you ain’t got love, you’ve just got chicken wings’: how food helped three chefs start again after prison
- Behind the Obsession Over the Mysterious ‘Prison Chips’
- Books behind bars: five of the best stories about prison life
- Heartbreaking True Stories from Inside Texas Prisons
- My First Three Days in Jail
- Without hope for parole, prisoners with life sentences tell their own stories
- 7 Stories on the Plight of Mental Illness in Prison
- Inside Story: Life in Prison, As Told by Formerly Incarcerated People
- An Inside Look at Prison Life in America
- Woman Who Spent 6 Years In Prison Shares 22 Eye-Opening Stories Of Life As An Inmate
- Kalief Browder, teen who awaited trial for 3 years at Rikers, kills himself
- Just Detention: Survivor Stories