prisoner welfare, rights and legal defense
The American Civil LIberties Union (Safe Communities, Fair Sentences page)
The Sister Song: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective is a network of grassroots agencies that represent ethnic and indigenous communities in the United States. It was founded in 1997 to educate women of color and policy makers on reproductive/sexual health and rights of women, with the ultimate goal of complete equal access to health services, information, and resources. By using public policy, advocacy, service, and health education, Sister Song works to achieve these goals locally and internationally.
Just Detention International is a prisoner welfare organization that works through international human rights laws to fight sexual assault in prisons and works to transform ill-informed public attitudes about sexual violence in detention, as well as support those who have been abused.
WORTH is an association of formerly and incarcerated women who have been empowered by their own experiences. Through mentoring, mutual support, leadership development and telling our stories, WORTH transforms the lives of women directly impacted by incarceration and changes public perception and policy.
Fair Trials International campaigns for the rights of people facing criminal charges in countries other than their own. They legally assist and advocate for individuals, but also fight the causes behind injustice in cross-border criminal cases through policy interventions, research and training.
Amnesty International is a multi-faceted organization whose many causes include the abolition of the death penalty and fair treatment of detainees, especially in terms of torture and right to a fair/prompt trial. They deal particularly with political prisoners/prisoners of conscience.
Real Cost of Prisons Project: A resource for video, books, prisoner writing and music, organizations and the prison system explained in comics.
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people.
The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing, law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration.
The Prison Birth Project is a reproductive justice organization providing support, education, advocacy, and activism training to women at the intersection of the criminal justice system and motherhood. In prison, 4-7% of women are pregnant, the same percentage as in the wider population; 85% are mothers, and 25% were pregnant upon arrest or gave birth in the previous year.
The Osborne Association works for a more effective and efficient criminal justice system and a safer and more just society. They believe that relying only on imprisonment as a response to crime is a costly and counterproductive approach that fails to take into account people's basic capacity to change.
Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) is a prison abolitionist group committed to exposing and challenging all forms of institutionalized racism, sexism, able-ism, heterosexism, and classism, specifically within the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). PARC believes in building strategies and tactics that build safety in our communities without reliance on the police or the PIC.
Through Barbed Wire: The Story of Arnie King. Arnie is incarcerated at Bay State Correction Center and is one of the leaders of Prison Voices there. We visit Arnie and members of the group each year.
The Southern Center for Human Rights
Prison Legal News
Voices from Inside:
The Sister Song: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective is a network of grassroots agencies that represent ethnic and indigenous communities in the United States. It was founded in 1997 to educate women of color and policy makers on reproductive/sexual health and rights of women, with the ultimate goal of complete equal access to health services, information, and resources. By using public policy, advocacy, service, and health education, Sister Song works to achieve these goals locally and internationally.
Just Detention International is a prisoner welfare organization that works through international human rights laws to fight sexual assault in prisons and works to transform ill-informed public attitudes about sexual violence in detention, as well as support those who have been abused.
WORTH is an association of formerly and incarcerated women who have been empowered by their own experiences. Through mentoring, mutual support, leadership development and telling our stories, WORTH transforms the lives of women directly impacted by incarceration and changes public perception and policy.
Fair Trials International campaigns for the rights of people facing criminal charges in countries other than their own. They legally assist and advocate for individuals, but also fight the causes behind injustice in cross-border criminal cases through policy interventions, research and training.
Amnesty International is a multi-faceted organization whose many causes include the abolition of the death penalty and fair treatment of detainees, especially in terms of torture and right to a fair/prompt trial. They deal particularly with political prisoners/prisoners of conscience.
Real Cost of Prisons Project: A resource for video, books, prisoner writing and music, organizations and the prison system explained in comics.
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people.
The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing, law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration.
The Prison Birth Project is a reproductive justice organization providing support, education, advocacy, and activism training to women at the intersection of the criminal justice system and motherhood. In prison, 4-7% of women are pregnant, the same percentage as in the wider population; 85% are mothers, and 25% were pregnant upon arrest or gave birth in the previous year.
The Osborne Association works for a more effective and efficient criminal justice system and a safer and more just society. They believe that relying only on imprisonment as a response to crime is a costly and counterproductive approach that fails to take into account people's basic capacity to change.
Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) is a prison abolitionist group committed to exposing and challenging all forms of institutionalized racism, sexism, able-ism, heterosexism, and classism, specifically within the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). PARC believes in building strategies and tactics that build safety in our communities without reliance on the police or the PIC.
Through Barbed Wire: The Story of Arnie King. Arnie is incarcerated at Bay State Correction Center and is one of the leaders of Prison Voices there. We visit Arnie and members of the group each year.
The Southern Center for Human Rights
Prison Legal News
Voices from Inside: