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:
We also love the Newsletter A Little Good News, 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 & RecoveryArts & MediaBlogrollBooks for InmatesBuddhist ResourcesCapital PunishmentChildrenClemencyConferencesEducationInmates' RightsInnocenceJuvenileLitigationNewsletters & PublicationsOrganizingParolePolicyPre-Trial, Detention & BailPrisonPrison Phone CallsPrison ProfiteeringPrison ProtestPrison WritingRe-entryResearchRestorative JusticeSentencingSolitary ConfinementSupport OrganizationsVideo VisitationWomen Incarcerated
Addiction & Recovery
Arts & Media
- Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
- Incarcerated Flavors
- Jean Trounstine
- Prison Arts in the News
- Rehabilitation Through the Arts
- Shakespeare Behind Bars
- Stella Adler School of Acting at Rikers Island
- The Cosmic Spirit
- 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
- Beehive Books Behind Bars (New Jersey)
- Pittsburgh Prison Book Project (Formerly Book ‘Em)
- Books Between The Bars
- Books Through Bars
- Books Through Bars NYC
- Books To Prisoners
- Chicago Books to Women in Prison
- Claremont Forum
- DC Books to Prisons Project
- Inside Prison Books Project
- LGBT Books to Prisoners
- Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners
- Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project
- National Prisoner Resource List
- Open Books Bookstore in Pensacola, Florida
- Prison Book Program
- Prison Books Collective
- Prisoners Literature Project
- Providence Books Through Bars
- Reading Reduces Recidivism: Books to Prison Libraries
- Real Cost of Prisons Project
- Serve the People Political Books for Prisoners Program
- Spring Grass Book’Em
- UC Books to Prisoners
- 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 Institute
- Shambhala Prison Program (Portland, OR)
- The Human Kindness Foundation
- The Lionheart Foundation
- The National Buddhist Prison Sangha
- Upaya Prison Outreach Program
- Vipassana For Correction Facilities
Capital Punishment
- 90 Million Strong
- ACLU CPP
- Amnesty International
- Centurion Ministries
- Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
- 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
- TCADP
- Tenesseeans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
- Tennessee Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty
- The Bureau of Justice Statistics
Children
Clemency
Conferences
Education
Inmates’ Rights
Innocence
Juvenile
Newsletters & Publications
- A Little Good News
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
- California Prison Focus Publications
- 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 Law Blog Newsletter
- Prison Legal News
- Solitary Watch
- Texas Defender Service
- The Cosmic Spirit
- The New Press
- The Sentencing Project Fact Sheets
- Top 20 Principles of Organizing
- We the People Legal Primer
Organizing
Policy
- Grassroots Leadership
- ICPS – International Centre for Prison Studies
- Justice Fellowship
- Juvenile Justice Project
- National Criminal Justice Association
- PPI – Gerrymandering Project
- Prison Legal News
- Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
- Texas Defender Service
- Texas Public Policy Foundation
- The Bureau of Justice Statistics
- The Campaign For The Fair Sentencing Of Youth
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- The Sentencing Project
- The Sentencing Project
- TIFA – Texas Inmate Families Association
Pre-Trial, Detention & Bail
Prison
- California Coalition for Women Prisoners
- California Prison Focus
- Critical Resistance
- CURE National (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants)
- Decarcerate PA
- Insight Prison Project
- Jean Trounstine
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
- Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project
- National Prisoner Resource List
- New York State Prisoner Justice Network
- Paul Modrowski Blog
- Prison Activist Resource Center
- Prison Focus Newsletter
- Prison Legal News
- Prison Policy Initiative
- Prisoner’s Family & Friends United
- Serve the People Political Books for Prisoners Program
- Solitary Watch
- The Bureau of Justice Statistics
- The Pennsylvania Prison Society
- The Sentencing Project
- TIFA – Texas Inmate Families Association
Prison Phone Calls
Prison Profiteering
Prison Protest
Prison Writing
Re-entry
Research
Restorative Justice
Solitary Confinement
Support Organizations
- Birth Behind Bars
- Birthing Behind Bars
- California Coalition for Women Prisoners
- Compassion Works For All
- Critical Resistance
- CUAMI (Communities United Against Mass Incarceration)
- Decarcerate PA
- From Death to Life
- Girls Embracing Mothers
- Grassroots Leadership
- Human Kindness Foundation
- Humanity For Prisoners
- Just Leadership USA (JLUSA)
- Justice Not Politics
- National Center For Reason And Justice
- National Coalition of Community-Based Correctional and Community Re-entry Service Organizations
- National Prisoner Resource List
- Prison Activist Resource Center
- Prison Focus Newsletter
- Prison Policy Initiative
- Prison Talk Online Community
- Prisoners With Children
- Texas Defender Service
- The Pennsylvania Prison Society
- The Sentencing Project
- The Vera Institute
- TIFA – Texas Inmate Families Association
Video Visitation
Women Incarcerated
- Action Committee For Women in Prison
- Birth Behind Bars
- Birthing Behind Bars
- California Coalition for Women Prisoners
- Chicago Books to Women in Prison
- Girls Embracing Mothers
- Jean Trounstine
- National Prisoner Resource List
- Razor Wire Women
- Solitary Watch
- Texas Jail Project
- The Cosmic Spirit
- The Pennsylvania Prison Society
- The Sentencing Project
- Women in Prison Conference
- Women’s Prison Association
