Links to Criminal Justice Resources and Organizations
Categories:- Control Units and Supermax Facilities
- Criminal Justice Reform and Advocacy
- Death Penalty / Capital Punishment Resources
- Disenfranchisement / Voting Rights
- Drug War Resources
- Education / Prison Issues
- Elderly in Prison
- Forensics, DNA, and Evidence-Related Links
- Human Rights and Social Change
- Immigration Issues
- Innocence Projects and Wrongful Convictions
- International
- Internet Based Prisoner Related Publications and Groups
- Journals
- Justice Blogs
- Juvenile Detention
- Legal Guides for Prisoners
- Legal Resources
- Magazines, Newsletters and Info Resources
- Media Access / Resources
- Medical Issues & Resources
- Movies
- Open Records and Freedom of Information Requests
- Police Brutality and Accountability
- Prison and Jail Phone Calls
- Prison and Corrections History / Historical Information
- Prison Employees, COs, etc.
- Prisoner Advocacy Groups, Projects and Organizations
- Prisoner Legal Services and Complaints about Conditions
- Prisoners' Families and Children
- Prison in the Arts - Song, Dance, Plays, Poetry
- Prison Medical Issues, Experiments, Health Care
- Prison Privatization / Privatization of Prison Services
- Prison Torture, Abuse, Sexual Abuse & Rape
- Radio Programs
- Religion in Prisons
- Research and Statistics
- Resources for Released / Soon to be Released Prisoners
- Sentencing Issues (Mandatory Minimums, Three Strikes, etc.)
- Sex Offender / Sex Offense Issues
- State by State Prison-Related Resources
- War on Terror - Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo
- Women's Issues - Prison and Corrections
Control Units and Supermax Facilities
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Activist organization seeking an end to control units; site includes a petition, national news, a history of control units, etc. A project of the Maoist Internationalist Movement.
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The StopMax site is working to promote and support a national movement to end the use of solitary confinement and related forms of torture in US prisons.
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An AFSC publication for prisoners confined in control units; written in Nov. 1997 but still timely.
Criminal Justice Reform and Advocacy
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The National PREA Resource Center provides information about the Prison Rape Elimination Act standards, and implementation of PREA in correctional facilities nationwide.
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Perilous is a project supported by a network of people—including you—who seek to gather and track information on prison uprisings, riots, protests, strikes, and other disturbances within public and private jails, prisons, and detention centers in the US and Canada. In this process, we rely on crowdsourced information in addition to local news outlets and our own reporting.
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A comprehensive guide to recidivism, including facts and statistics about recidivism rates as well as causes and impacts.
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This resource explores the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees a defendant's right to counsel, and discusses how the poor are still disadvantaged in court despite this right. The resource also provides statistics regarding the amount of money the United States spends on public defense in comparison to other major countries, and how many public defenders are being overworked.
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At the forefront of leadership in the struggle to end the US system of mass incarceration stands the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement (FICPM), a nationwide coalition of formerly incarcerated men and women who are holding forth a radical vision for justice and transformation, and who are putting that vision to work in towns and cities across the nation.
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The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) is the preeminent organization in the United States advancing the mission of the nation's criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct. A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's approximately 9,200 direct members in 28 countries - and 90 state, provincial and local affiliate organizations totaling up to 40,000 attorneys -- include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness within America's criminal justice system. In addition to its website, resources include NACDL's State Criminal Justice Network Conference, Advocacy Calls, NACDL First Amendment Project and NACDL Reports.
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JLUSA is a national criminal justice advocacy organization dedicated to cutting the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030. We believe those closest to the problem are closest to the solution, and we are committed to lifting the voices of currently and formerly incarcerated leaders in the policy conversation. Contact: JustLeadershipUSA, 1900 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10035; (347)-454-2195
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The Justice Policy Institute works to end over-reliance on incarceration and advocates for alternatives to prison through research, public education and media outreach.
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This website is the culmination of the work of an informal collection of lawyers, law professors, law students and policy advocates who are concerned about prosecutorial misconduct.
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Works to inform people about the real cost of prisons and mass incarceration; publishes the Real Cost of Prisons Comix; hosts the Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters on their site.
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The site for Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety. Works to address the needs of "Inmates & Victims, Children and the Prison Reform Community," with an emphasis on California, where they are based.
Death Penalty / Capital Punishment Resources
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The ABA's Death Penalty Due Process Review Project seeks to obtain a nationwide moratorium on executions until the death penalty process can be administered in a fair and constitutional manner.
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The Campaign to End the Death Penalty has local chapters that focus on the problems and shortcomings of capital punishment, with the aim of abolishing the death penalty.
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Provides extensive information on all aspects of the death penalty - including cases of innocence, research, a database of executions, news reports and other resources.
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National advocacy organization opposed to capital punishment. Issues execution alerts, publishes a newsletter, and offers fact sheets and research on the death penalty.
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A photo project documenting individuals freed from death row.
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This site addresses juveniles who have been sentenced to death in Iran, despite Article 37(a) of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits such capital sentences under international law.
Disenfranchisement / Voting Rights
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The Sentencing Project provides research, data and reports on issues related to felon disenfranchisement.
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This chart describes state-by-state felon disenfranchisement laws.
Drug War Resources
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The Drug War Clock provides a running tally of the cost of the War on Drugs, including money spent by the government and citizens arrested and imprisoned.
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Education and advocacy organization for the legalization of marijuana.
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Site devoted to everything you could possibly want to know about the War on Drugs and its effect on our society. They publish the Razor Wire, a bi-annual newsletter on drug war-related issues, releasing drug war prisoners and restoring civil rights.
Education / Prison Issues
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The mission of the Prison University Project is to provide excellent higher education to people at San Quentin State Prison; to support increased access to higher education for incarcerated people; and to stimulate public awareness about higher education access and criminal justice.
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Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programs partner college students with prisoners in mutually-beneficial, hands-on educational courses that discuss criminal justice-related issues. This site is for the Inside-Out program at Temple University; other programs have been started at other colleges.
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Provides information about the prison education programs offered by New York University to NY state prisoners.
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The Prison Studies Project is compiling the first nationwide directory of postsecondary programs in U.S. prisons. Searchable and continually updated, the directory is an online, state-by-state listing of primarily on-site degree-granting postsecondary education programs in prisons.
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ACLU page on the "School to Prison Pipeline" -- i.e., how children are channeled from schools into the criminal justice system through disciplinary expulsions, alternative education programs and interaction with the juvenile justice system.
Elderly in Prison
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Josh Rushing, with Al Jazeera America, documents the growing phenomenon of an aging U.S. prison population.
Forensics, DNA, and Evidence-Related Links
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AntiPolygraph.org has everything you want to know about why polygraph tests are unreliable and "bad science"; includes a section on polygraph-related litigation.
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This site, operated by Charly D. Miller, who is a consultant and expert witness, contains a wealth of information on the issue of positional asphyxiation and asphyxiation while in restraints -- which are often involved in jail and prison cases where prisoners die after being restrained or subjected to use of force.
Human Rights and Social Change
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Amnesty International advocates for human rights worldwide; their criminal justice-related projects include advocacy against the death penalty, torture, racial profiling and police misconduct, and support for political prisoners. They also compile information about prisoner torture, beatings, rape, etc. to include in reports about U.S. prison conditions.
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CRis a national organization that seeks to build an international movement to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. They are dedicated to ending society's use of prisons and policing as an answer to social problems. CR has chapters nationwide with offices in California, Florida, Louisiana, New York, and Texas.
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Human Rights Watch is a human rights organization; they have produced a number of excellent reports on abuses in U.S. prisons, and track prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners around the world.
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A project driven by the Institute for Justice (IJ) and a group of Karen Christians from Burma and Thailand that challenges the civil forfeiture of more than $53,000 in seized assets by Muskogee County, OK.
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This is the official website of Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo's ground-breaking 1971 experiment that substantiated the harmful effects on both guards and prisoners after exposure to a prison environment for only a few days.
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The University of Minnesota maintains an impressive online library of human rights-related documents, including materials related to torture, detainees, United Nations treaties, etc.
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The Vera Institute of Justice works on immigration, justice, sentencing, corrections and youth justice issues, to effect changes in institutional and societal criminal justice policies.
Immigration Issues
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The Business of Detention is an excellent and informative site that profiles CCA's involvement in the immigration detention business, from financial and political connections with the federal government to stock trends and an increasing number of ICE contracts. Includes multimedia, audio and graphs.
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Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a broad coalition of groups that works to educate the public and policy makers about the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system, and to advocate for humane reform of immigration detention and policies. An excellent source of information and materials for those interested in immigration detention issues.
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The Global Detention Project tracks immigration detention and related issues in a number of countries, including the U.S., which "maintains the largest immigration detention infrastructure in the world, which by the end of fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or under contract with the federal government." Includes an interactive map with detention facility information.
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This site, maintained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), lists the agency's standards for family and residential detention facilities, such as the T. Don Hutto facility in Texas.
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Jesuit Refugee Service USA provides religious services and advocacy for immigrant refugees, including chaplaincy programs at detention facilities and advocacy for reduced detention of immigrant detainees.
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This March 2008 article from the New Yorker Magazine is an excellent write-up on the CCA-run T. Don Hutto facility in Texas, which incarcerates women and children immigrant detainees.
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The National Immigrant Justice Center works to ensure human rights protections and access to justice for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Innocence Projects and Wrongful Convictions
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Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice operates the Justice Project, which will consider cases of wrongful conviction in Arizona ONLY.
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Centurion is an investigative and advocacy organization that considers cases of factual innocence. Centurion does not take on accidental death or self-defense cases or cases where the defendant had any involvement whatsoever in the crime.
In cases involving sexual assault, a forensic component is required. Cases that fit the above may send a 2-4 page letter outlining the facts of the case. This summary should include the crime you were convicted of, the evidence against you, and why you were arrested. You will receive a return letter of acknowledgement from Centurion. If we find you meet our initial criteria, we will provide additional instructions for further review. Write to: Centurion,1000 Herrontown Rd., Clock Building 2nd Floor, Princeton, NJ 08540.
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This section of the DPIC site specifically addresses wrongful convictions resulting in death sentences. There have been over 160 cases of innocent defendants sentenced to death and exonerated since 1973.
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The Exoneration Initiative (EXI) is a pioneering organization that provides free legal assistance to wrongfully convicted persons in New York. We primarily focus on the most challenging cases, those that lack DNA evidence. Our mission is simple: To exonerate the actually innocent.
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The Exoneration Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to working to free prisoners who were wrongfully convicted. The Project represents innocent individuals in post-conviction legal proceedings; typical cases involve DNA testing, coerced confessions, police misconduct, the use of faulty evidence, junk science, faulty eyewitness testimony and ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
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Forejustice, a companion site to Justice Denied, includes a database of exonerated prisoners, articles book reviews and audio clips on wrongful convictions. Created in the spirit of The White Rose to increase justice in the world. News articles, case studies and an extensive database of people who were wrongfully convicted, plus a listing of Innocence Projects and other resources.
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Information about wrongly imprisoned people both in the U.S. and internationally. Hosts a number of discussion forums.
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The Innocence Project at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York handles only cases of actual innocence provable by DNA testing. The Project has been instrumental in freeing dozens of prisoners who were wrongly convicted. The site also contains detailed information on why wrongful convictions occur, and links to other innocence projects by state. Case profiles, causes and remedies of wrongful convictions, and much, much more on this topic.
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The Innocence Project Northwest is a non-profit group of attorneys, professors and students working to free innocent prisoners. IPNW will ONLY consider cases from the states of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho or Montana involving people with substantial claims of actual innocence. The efforts of IPNW attorneys and law students have helped to free 11 innocent prisoners since 1997.
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Innocent Inmates Association of Ohio is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the rights of Ohio citizens who have been imprisoned unjustly and publicizing their cases.
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Comprehensive information on cases of innocence (including an extensive database). Publishes the "Justice Denied," which is the only magazine in the world exclusively devoted to publicizing cases of wrongful convictions and how they occur. Extensive information is available on their website, including books and DVDs related to innocence and exonerations.
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A comprehensive list of innocence projects and projects related to wrongful convictions are available at forejustice.org.
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Witness to Innocence is the nation’s only organization composed of, by, and for exonerated death row survivors and their loved ones. By engaging them in public education programs, direct action, and legislative and media work, we empower our exoneree members to be leaders in the stuggle to end the death penalty in the United States, and to actively challenge the public to grapple with the reality of a fatally flawed criminal justice system that sends innocent people to death row. We also provide peer support for death row exonerees, and campaign for federal compensation for them.
International
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A federation of services supporting families of prisoners in England.
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A home for children of prisoners in India.
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European-wide network on behalf of children separated from an imprisoned parent.
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The International Centre for Prison Studies is a project of the School of Law, King's College, in London. It offers a wealth of information, data and publications related to prison issues internationally.
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The International CURE site is an umbrella group for international chapters of National CURE, primarily in Africa.
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Pen International is a worldwide association of writers, artists, and intellectuals covering many fields that aims to bridge strengthen cross-cultural divides. The association strongly affirms and promotes its commitment to the free expression and exchange of ideas.
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Reclaim Justice Network is a collaboration of individuals, groups, campaigners, activists, trade unionists, practitioners and researchers and people most directly affected by criminal justice systems in the U.K., who are working together to radically reduce the size and scope of criminal justice systems and to build effective and socially just alternatives.
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The Security Force Monitor is a platform created by the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute that aims to monitor police, military, and other security forces in countries of human rights concern.
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Sisters Inside is an independent community organization that exists to advocate for the human rights of women in the criminal justice system in Queensland, Australia, and to address gaps in the services available to them. Sisters Inside works alongside women in prison in determining the best way to fulfill these roles.
Internet Based Prisoner Related Publications and Groups
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This webpage provides a list of criminal justice resources related to prisoners' rights and web-based resources.
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The Prison Law Blog is an online resource that which regularly covers topics such as defense in prison disciplinary hearings, wrongful convictions, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and more. Their writers are comprised of incarcerated jailhouse litigators, attorneys, prison consultants and other criminal justice professionals. They write from a pro-prisoner and pro-defendant perspective.
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Despite its crude-sounding name, PrisonSucks is an excellent resource for research, books, fact sheets and statistics on issues related to imprisonment. Documentary videos are also available, as well as prison-related music. This site is linked with the Prison Policy Initiative.
Journals
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The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons features peer reviewed, academically-oriented, critical writings of current and former prisoners designed to enlighten public discourse about imprisonment and criminal justice policies and issues.
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Prison Culture is an attempt to document how the current prison industrial complex operates and to underscore the ways that it structures American society.
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An annual, comprehensive guide to prisons in England and Wales, edited by Mark Leech.
Justice Blogs
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The official blog of the American Civil Liberties Union. Regurlarly updated with articles on a wide variety of human rights and constitutional issues.
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Run by faculty and students at UC Hastings College of the Law, the California Criminal Crisis blog offers news and commentary on criminal justice issues and correctional policy in California.
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Blog of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, aggregating articles on criminal justice issues in California from a variety of news sources.
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Paul Leighton (Ph.D., American University 1995) is a Professor in the Dept of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. Dr Paul's areas of teaching and research interests include white collar and corporate crime; punishment; private prisons; inequalities (class, race and gender).
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Regularly updated blog focusing on news, policies and laws related to the criminal justice reform movement.
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SNITCHING BLOG continues to offer ongoing news analysis, legal commentary, and cultural insights into how snitching affects the criminal system and the lives of ordinary people.
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Support Prisoners Resistance is a blog that reports on planned or ongoing individual and collective strikes across the United States. This ranges from anti-work protests to hunger strikes and plenty other forms of resistance.
Juvenile Detention
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The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth is dedicated to ending the practice of sentencing juvenile offenders to life in prison (juvenile life without parole, or JLWOP).
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On any given night in the U.S., there are approximately 60,500 youth confined in juvenile correctional facilities or other residential programs. Photographer Richard Ross has spent the past five years criss-crossing the country photographing the architecture, cells, classrooms and inhabitants of these detention sites. The resulting photo-survey, Juvenile-In-Justice, documents 350 facilities in over 30 states. It’s more than a peek into unseen worlds — it is a call to action and care.
Legal Guides for Prisoners
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A practical guide to state and federal habeas corpus under the AEDPA; useful information on habeas issues, with an emphasis on California. Published by Kent Russell, an attorney in San Francisco.
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A "Comprehensive Practice Guide to Prison and Parole Law," Third Edition. Written by experienced prison law attorneys, the Handbook's 17 chapters include detailed discussions of the laws governing prisoner rights and the policies and practices of the California DOC (2006 supplement available). Includes many sample forms and pleadings. Sold by the Prison Law Office.
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A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual (JLM) is a handbook of legal rights and procedures designed for use by people in prison. Since publication of the First Edition in 1978, tens of thousands of prisoners in institutions across the country have used A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual to exercise their legal rights. The JLM informs prisoners of their legal rights and instructs them about how to secure these rights through the judicial process, clearly explaining legal research techniques and how to read legal documents. The JLM is published by law students of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. The Ninth Edition of the JLM, published in 2011, contains chapters covering a wide variety of topics that are listed and available for download in PDF format.
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The Little Red Rules Book is a pocket-size publication containing the Federal Rules of Evidence, some selected Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and some other useful references for use in court, published by the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho. The publication contains annotations with case citations. To obtain a copy please send a check or money order for $6.00 payable to the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho, 10 North Post St., Suite 700, Spokane, WA 99201.
Legal Resources
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A fully overhauled, updated, and expanded edition of the leading case book on incarceration which examines the complex legal regime that defines prisoners’ rights.
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The RECAP Archive is a free, searchable archive of millions of court records and dockets dating back to 1960.
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AllLaw.com is a general resource site for legal issues, with a variety of subject areas for both consumers and legal professionals.
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The ACLU National Prison Project is involved in prison-related litigation nationwide, often through class-action lawsuits, and also advocates for criminal justice policy reform.
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The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collects information and documents from civil rights cases in a variety of subject categories, including prison conditions, jail conditions, policing, juvenile facilities, and election/voting rights.
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A low-cost paid subscription legal research site devoted exclusively to criminal law, with some information on prison legal issues, too.
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An overview of state expungement and sealing laws to help individuals with a criminal record overcome barriers to employment and licensing through clearing their records. It includes links to other useful websites and case documents as well.
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An educational and informational site for federal courts and federal judges.
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This site includes pattern jury instructions for federal circuit and district courts, among many other resources.
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FindLaw provides a comprehensive set of legal resources legal professionals, businesses, students and individuals. These resources include Web search utilities, state and federal cases and codes, legal news, an online career center, message boards and even free e-mail.
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LawInfo.com is a general legal assistance site that includes an attorney locator, legal forms, legal guides, instructional videos and other free legal resources.
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Provides access to "criminal law basics" information; also has links to criminal law statutes for most states.
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Provides a searchable directory for locating attorneys.
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The National Lawyers Guild is an advocacy organization dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system; members include lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers. They sponsor a Jailhouse Lawyers project and a Prison Law Project (New York).
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Multimedia project that maintains audio files of select U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments.
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The PACE Law Library maintains a legal resource section on issues related to prisoners' rights.
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A non-profit public interest law firm that litigates prison-related issues in California. They offer a variety of prisoner legal self-help materials on their site.
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The Expert Company provides a fee-based service that connects attorneys with experts; their database of experts includes those with experience and expertise in prison and jail-related litigation.
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Easily accessible U.S. Supreme Court decisions (full text) from 1791 to 2004. Plus blogs on the Supreme Court and Constitutional rights.
Magazines, Newsletters and Info Resources
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Atlas of Surveillance Shines Light on Deployment of Cameras, Drones, and More
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Newsletter dealing with prisoner rights. For information please contact: Coalition For Prisoner's Rights Newsletter; PO Box 1911; Santa Fe, NM 87504-1911.
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The Fines & Fees Justice Center Clearinghouse aims to provide an easily-accessible library of information about efforts to reform fines and fees in the legal system. The Clearinghouse, which will be continuously updated, is designed for laypeople, justice system experts, and everyone in between. The Clearinghouse curates and organizes research, legislation, litigation, court-rule changes, pilot projects, community voices, data, and media related to fines and fees reform in the United States.
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The Corporate Crime Reporter, a weekly print publication with an on-line presence, reports on all things related to white collar corporate crime. Especially read "20 things you should know about corporate crime."
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Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
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The Crime Report is a news, information and multimedia source for criminal justice-related news and developments.
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Graterfriends is a prisoner-oriented newsletter published monthly by the Pennsylvania-based Prison Society. It includes lots of interesting and useful information about criminal justice matters, with a focus on Pennsylvania. $3.00 per year for prisoners.
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The National Prisoner Resource List is published quarterly by the Prison Book Program (although the latest version available is dated Dec. 2006). It contains numerous informational resources available for U.S. prisoners; however, some of the information may be dated.
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The Nuclear Resister is a bi-monthly newsletter published since 1980 that provides information for and about imprisoned anti-nuclear and anti-war activists.
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Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) produces a comprehensive Prisoner Support Directory with contact information for a wide variety of organizations of interest to prisoners.
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The Razor Wire is an excellent newsletter published quarterly by the November Coalition. It predominantly deals with issues related to the war on drugs and sentencing reform.
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This website provides educational information about all aspects of criminal informant use, law, and policy. SNITCHING.ORG provides resources for lawyers, journalists, law enforcement, legislators, and members of the public who want information about the law and policies associated with snitching.
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4Struggle Magazine focues on U.S. political prisoners, and publishes 3 times a year. While this is primarily an e-publication, hard copies are available, too. (Free for prisoners.)
Media Access / Resources
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Link page maintained by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) for media access rules for state prison systems.
Medical Issues & Resources
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Drugwatch.com is a great drug and health resource for men and women of all ages. They also help people evaluate if they have a legal case because of life-changing side effects or complications that were caused by a device maker or a drug company.
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Formerly CorrectHELP. Provides information related to HIV in prison – contact them if you are not receiving proper HIV medication or are denied access to programs due to your HIV status.
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Informational website aimed at spreading awareness about the drug Actos, which used to treat Type 2 Diabetes, and its serious side effects and health complications.
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This is a national educational group that brings together organizations and individuals to raise awareness and provide support and advocacy to prisoners suffering from Hepatitis C and HIV/HCV coinfection.
Movies
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Steve Biko was the most prominent leader behind the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in apartheid-ruled South Africa. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr who fought to empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Cry Freedom is about his life and death.
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As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. Over forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad.
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As Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) rides a bus through the inner city streets, she wills herself to push away memories that crowd her. Four years earlier, she was a vibrant medical student married to the love of her life, Derek (Omari Hardwick). Now, she makes her way to the maximum security prison on the outskirts of town. This is where her love now resides.
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Site for the film "Prison Lullabies," a documentary about four women who gave birth while they were incarcerated. Ordering information, media kits and outreach links are available.
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The film explores the stories of friendships that have grown through forgiveness between victims of violent crimes and their perpetrators. The documentary is made by award winning director and activist Leslie Neale (Juvies, Road to Return), who has a strong commitment and history of social advocacy.
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Mothers in Prison: The impact of incarceration on motherhood is a documentary on incarcerated women and their children.
Open Records and Freedom of Information Requests
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The core mission of the Chicago Justice Project is to increase public access to justice-related information, through FOI requests and the Citizen Open Data Access project.
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This online guide to the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) contains useful details on how to file FOIA requests. Provided by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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GovernmentAttic.org provides access to federal documents that have been obtained through FOIA requests -- many are related to law enforcement and the military.
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The National Security Archive collects and publishes declassified government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act related to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States. Includes the Torture Archives.
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This site, part of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press site, includes a complete compendium of information on every state's open records and open meetings laws. Each state's section is arranged according to a standard outline, making it easy to compare laws in various states.
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Public.Resource.org maintains links to government public information sites and documents.
Police Brutality and Accountability
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A Reddit feed featuring law enforcement abuse stories regarding "abuse of power, corruption, and other misfortunes in developing police states."
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Citizens Police Data Project discloses statistics collected on police misconduct in the city of Chicago through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Citizen initiative (with chapters in many cities) to "police the police." Maintains a database of police abuse/misconduct and sponsors discussion forums.
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A website that tracks and reports the incidents of police killings all across the United States using data collected from third party crowdsourced databases.
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Information and resources related to civilian oversight of law enforcement agencies.
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A project of the National Lawyers Guild; includes a list of civilian review boards and other resources.
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A project created by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, this online platform presents data on policing practices relating to stops, searches, and use of force. The platform focuses on North Carolina, Maryland, and Illinois.
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This website allows people to prepare, file and track police misconduct reports.
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Site devoted to citizen rights, police brutality and misconduct, filing complaints against officers, etc.
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Police Use of Force Project documented and reviewed use of force of 91 of the 100 largest police departments in the United States. Their analysis of the data can be viewed in a report found on this website.
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This is a platform that helps law enforcement agencies publish and be transparent with their data pertaining to Complaints, Use of Force, and Officer Involved Shootings. The website currently presents data for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
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The Transparency and Accountability Project publishes police disciplinary records in New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Florida with the purpose of creating a better justice system. The data was made available through public records requests.
Prison and Jail Phone Calls
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An advocacy campaign to lower prison phone rates nationwide, co-coordinated by the Human Rights Defense Center, MAG-Net and Working Narratives/Nation Inside.
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This page by the Center for Media Justice (the parent organization of MAG-Net) includes news related to prison phone issues.
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Part of the Prison Profiteers video series, this short video addresses the nation's largest prison phone company, Global Tel*Link.
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A Washington State campaign to lower prison and jail phone rates, coordinated by the Human Rights Defense Center.
Prison and Corrections History / Historical Information
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The site features a robust collection of prisoner-produced newspapers from the late 20th century; oral histories and testimonials about the Washington state prison system; research on local histories of punishment; and a text-adventure computer game designed inside a maximum security prison.
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Extensive information about "The Rock," including escape attempts, rules and regulations, famous prisoners and historical background.
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Site about the Eastern State Prison in Philadelphia, PA, which was built in 1821 and is is designated as a National Historic Landmark. Includes links to other prison museums worldwide.
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This site contains an archive of text and images related to corrections/prison history in New York.
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Virtual pictoral tour of this famous island prison.
Prison Employees, COs, etc.
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A website providing resources for all things on the correctional officer profession, including salaries, schools & training.
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This site tracked news articles related to misconduct by correctional officers and other prison employees. No longer updated after 2010, but contains archived news articles.
Prisoner Advocacy Groups, Projects and Organizations
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Prison Writers mission is to give incarcerated people a voice and to educate people on the outside about what is really happening inside America’s prisons. Incarcerated writers gain a sense of confidence and pride knowing their words are being read by the general public. Prison Writers believes those closest to the problem are closest to the solution.
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This valuable resource by the American Bar Association addresses how a conviction will impact housing, government benefits, civic participation, and a whole range of other areas. Holistic legal practitioners and criminal defense practitioners who want to follow best practices will be sure to bookmark this site.
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The National Prison Project of the ACLU seeks to enforce constitutional conditions of confinement and strengthen prisoners' rights through class action lawsuits and public education. The NPP is the only national litigation program on behalf of prisoners.
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The Criminal Law Reform Campaign is a priority of the ACLU. We seek to end excessively harsh criminal justice policies that result in mass incarceration and stand in the way of a just and equal society. Learn more about our campaign goals below, and support our work by taking action.
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Black and Pink is an open family of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer prisoners and “free world” allies who support each other. A national organization, Black and Pink reaches thousands of prisoners across the country and provides a free monthly newspaper of prisoner-generated content, a free (non-sexual) pen-pal program and connections with anti-prison movement organizing. Their website also hosts a blog by founder Jason Lydon, a Unitarian minister who was arrested and jailed for protesting at a military base.
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The Center for Prison Reform is a think tank and coalition of like minded groups that lobby for prison reform.
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The Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition is a statewide network of over 100 organizations and faith communities and nearly 5,000 individuals united to stop prison expansion and mass incarceration in Colorado.
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The "New School of Convict Criminology" is a relatively new and controversial perspective in the field of corrections and the academic field of criminology. It challenges the way crime and correctional problems are traditionally represented and discussed by researchers, policymakers, and politicians.
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EPOCA consists of former and current prisoners striving to organize and assist (ex-)prisoners to promote criminal justice policy changes.
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FedCURE is a chapter of National CURE that deals with issues specifically related to federal prisons and prisoners. Current issues include reinstating federal parole, increasing good time, restoring PELL grants, and reentry issues. They publish the FedCURE Newsletter.
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The ICCA is a membership organization dedicated to promoting community-based corrections for adults and juveniles to enhance public safety. Community corrections involves a variety of different community-provided and government-funded services. As such, the ICCA focuses on several program areas, from assessment and evaluation to siting to employment training.
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The MBWCP seeks the release of battered women convicted of killing or defending themselves and their children against an abusive partner.
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The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls is a female-focused advocacy group that aims to bring policy makers, academics, researchers and the public together in order to make sure that incarcerated women and girls have a voice in adopted policies.
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National CURE is a grassroots membership organization that believes 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.
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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).
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Prison Mindfulness Institute (PMI) is a Rhode Island-based organization supporting projects dedicated to promoting mindfulness and meditation programs in prisons around the world.
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Prisoner Solidarity serves as a catalyst for communication between prisoners and people on "the outside." It publishes updated research, news, opinion pieces and educational material from activists, writers, prisoners and the concerned public. Emphasis on justice-related issues in Ohio.
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Stop Prison Abuse Now's goals are to are to make people aware that physical, psychological and medical abuse occurs in U.S. prisons, to convince Congress to investigate conditions within our prisons, and to pass legislation to protect prisoners from abuse.
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The Prison Reentry Network is a nonprofit that works with prisoner prior to their release in aiding their transition back into their communities. Their work encompasses providing information to inmates on how to find food, shelter, and work opportunities. They distribute this information directly to prisoners through print editions of their programs as well as online to the families of the incarcerated individuals.
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The Whitestone Foundation is concerned with issues related to the civil commitment of sex offenders and their treatment. The link is to the Foundation's Yahoo group (must have a free Yahoo account to join).
Prisoner Legal Services and Complaints about Conditions
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The Cornell University Law School maintains this brief overview of prisoners' rights with selected links to related materials.
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This FindLaw page provides a brief overview of prisoners' rights, including the ADA and PLRA.
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The Office of Defender Services is the federal department that provides training and support for federal public defenders. Their site includes training materials and other publications on habeas, death penalty appeals and federal criminal law.
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A non-profit public interest law firm that litigates prison-related issues in California. They offer a variety of prisoner legal self-help materials on their site.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center handles civil rights cases against hate groups, as well as litigation involving immigration issues, workers' rights, prison conditions and juvenile justice. The SPLC also tracks hate groups nationwide and publishes a quarterly magazine.
Prisoners' Families and Children
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Canadian Families and Corrections Network (CFCN) focuses on families, children, and friends who have someone they care about in jail. Our mission is “to build stronger and safer communities by assisting families affected by criminal behavior, incarceration, and reintegration”.
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Provides Christmas gifts for children of prisoners.
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Residential care agency provides support and ministry to children and youth of families shattered by crime and troubled environments.
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The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents provides services in four components. (1) The Information component includes publications and audio-visual materials free of charge to prisoners, their children and their families; and provides advice to groups of incarcerated parents and family members. (2) The Educational component provides materials and holds parent education training for parents in the criminal justice system. A correspondence course in parent education is offered free of charge to incarcerated parents. (3) The Family Reunification component has about 60 service projects to help prisoners and their children maintain a relationship. (4) The Therapeutic Component provides therapy for incarcerated mothers and their infants and young children.
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Families for Justice as Healing focuses on raising public awareness about the incarceration of women and the impact on children and communities.
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Provides information and resources related to issues involving incarcerated parents and their children.
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Forever Family (formerly AIM) is a service organization based in Georgia (with chapters in other states). The agency assists incarcerated mothers, their children and other family members in maintaining critically important family ties during the mother's incarceration.
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Friends Outside is a advocacy and outreach organization committed to improving the quality of life of families, children and communities impacted by incarceration, and to assisting with successful community reentry and family reunification for those transitioning from confinement to freedom. Friends Outside provides direct services to prisoners and their families in the State of California, and conducts advocacy worldwide.
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Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) offers a comprehensive site dealing with issues involving incarcerated parents, families and children of prisoners, and women prisoners. Their focus is on women prisoners and their families, as well as prisoners rights. Publications available through their site include the Incarcerated Parents Manual, which is highly recommended.
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Prison: The Hidden Sentence is a blog and online platform with a focus on educating and empowering families and friends of incarcerated individuals. The aim and purpose of which is to create a community where the people affected can share their stories with one another.
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Save Kids of Incarcerated Parents (SKIP) has chapters in several states; the organization provides supportive services to children of incarcerated parents and their families, and seeks to increase public awareness of the underlying problems these children face.
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NRCCFI is the oldest and largest organization in the U.S. focused on children and families of the incarcerated and programs that serve them, providing a comprehensive directory of programs, a library of helpful resources, and more.
Prison in the Arts - Song, Dance, Plays, Poetry
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Cellblock Visions, a site maintained by Phyllis Kornfeld, provides a gallery of prison art and information about art behind bars.
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Books Through Bar is a volunteer group that distributes free books and reading material to incarcerated people all across the United States. The organization aims to create a better understanding between people within and outside the walls of prison.
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There is a real need to create a single-site where American prison writers can write about and document their experience and where free-world citizens—including scholars and students in a growing field of study of criminal justice and mass incarceration—can access such writing. No such archive yet exists. The American Prison Writing Archive will be a place where incarcerated people can bear witness to the conditions in which they live, to what is working and what is not inside American prisons, and where they can contribute to public debate about the American prison crisis.
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The Prison Arts Coalition (PAC) is an independent space providing information and resources for people creating art in and around the American prison system.
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NYC Books Through Bars is an all-volunteer-run group that sends free, donated books to incarcerated people across the nation, except for AL, FL, LA, MA, MI, MS, NC, PA, OH, and WI.
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The Robben Island Singers are composed of three South African former political prisoners who were incarcerated on Robben Island. They perform stories, songs and discussions regarding forgiveness and building community.
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PrisonsFoundation.org publishes books written in prison worldwide without cost to prisoners. They are also partners with SafeStreetArts Foundation, an organization that exhibits art made in prison.
Prison Medical Issues, Experiments, Health Care
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This is the website for the federal court-appointed receiver over healthcare in the California DOC (in the Plata litigation). Includes reports, court pleadings, press releases, current projects, etc.
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This listing, updated by the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration, lists all DEA-involved investigations of physician registrants which resulted in the arrest and prosecution of the registrant. This list includes doctors who work for private and public prisoner medical care providers.
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Your FDA gateway for clinically important safety information and reporting serious problems with medical products.
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This Yahoo group recruits people to write letters in support of prisoners who need medical care.
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The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) is a coalition that "is committed to improving the quality of health care in jails, prisons, and juvenile confinement facilities." They provide accreditation services, establish health care standards, publish a journal, and sponsor conferences.
Prison Privatization / Privatization of Prison Services
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A collection of resources addressing the impact of privatization on public policy, immigration policy, and the overall cost of prison systems.
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The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) maintains a site about corrections workers, which includes information against prison privatization. A publication titled "Don't be a prisoner to empty promises" is available in the AFSCME privatization section.
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APCTO is an industry special-interest group for for-profit prison companies and companies that provide prison-related services.
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Corporate website for CoreCivic/CCA, the nation's largest private prison company.
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Corporate site for the Geo Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections).
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Grassroots Leadership is civil rights organization, committed to ending for-profit incarceration. Their site contains other information and resources about prison privatization, with an emphasis on private prisons in the southern U.S.
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Corporate site for Management & Training Corporation (private prison operator).
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One-stop clearinghouse for information about the private prison industry with a state-by-state listing of news and events, company rap sheets, reports and studies, etc. Assists communities and groups opposed to prison privatization.
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Tennesseans Against Puryear is a site coordinated by PLN associate editor Alex Friedmann, which opposes the judicial nomination of Gustavus A. Puryear IV, general counsel of Corrections Corp. of America (CCA). Mr. Puryear has been nominated for a lifetime appointment to the federal court in the Middle District of Tennessee, the same jurisdiction where CCA is headquartered.
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Blog on private prison companies, with an emphasis on CCA, detailing problems and failures of the private prison industry.
Prison Torture, Abuse, Sexual Abuse & Rape
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CBS has posted a collection of Abu Ghraib photos and a video clip.
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This is a joint project by the National Institute of Corrections and the Washington College of Law that provides training to corrections staff on the issue of sexual misconduct and abuse.
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Six videos of dramatic confrontations between mentally ill prison inmates and California prison guards were filed Thursday in federal court, giving the public its first glimpse of what inmate advocates contend are inhumane uses of force.
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The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's prisons is a national effort to clarify the nature and extent of violence, sexual abuse, degradation, and other serious safety failures and abuses in U.S. prisons and jails through public hearings.
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Extensive report by Human Rights Watch on male rape in U.S. prisons. (2001)
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Formerly Stop Prisoner Rape, this is the premiere advocacy organization and information center on the problem of prison rape (both male and female rape). Offers a resource guide for rape survivors, numerous publications and other resources.
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Home page for the commission that was involved with the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (which has since been signed into law).
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Site dedicated to profiles of prisoners who have died in custody, often from abuse by guards or medical neglect.
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Articles, scholarly papers and other information on deaths caused by restraint asphyxia (positional suffocation); some articles on tasers, too.
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Informative article posted on Slate about prison rape, by Robert Weisberg, Professor of law at Stanford Law School, and David Mills, a senior lecturer at Stanford Law School (with rebuttal by SPR).
Radio Programs
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It is the intention of Jaws of Justice Radio to investigate how to achieve justice in America, this includes issues of economic injustice, political injustice and the criminal justice system. We want to put a human face on those caught in the grasp of injustice and those that are part of an unjust system. The Jaws of Justice Radio group is made up of formerly incarcerated citizens, family members of victims, family members of the incarcerated, lawyers, and justice seeking members of our community. We invite you to join the dialogue.
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The Prison Pipeline radio show broadcasts every Tuesday at 6:30pm West Coast time on KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland, Oregon. The program is broadcast live world-wide over the Internet at www.kboo.org. You will need to have either RealPlayer or WinAmp installed on your computer to listen to KBOO over the Internet.
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Ray Hill's "The Prison Show," has been broadcast on Houston Pacifica radio station KPFT (90.1 FM) weekly since March 1980. You can tune in on Friday nights at 9 p.m. CST; previous shows are archived on the website.
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Thousand Kites is sponsoring the "Calls from Home" radio show, which is a one-hour program that lets family members send greetings to their incarcerated loved ones. It will be recorded on Dec. 13, 2007 and available on their website soon afterwards.
Religion in Prisons
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Serves Jewish prisoners and their families
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The Appignani Humanist Legal Center is a nonprofit organization advocating progressive values and equality for humanists, atheists, and non-religious Americans. Founded in 1941 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., its work is extended through more than 180 local chapters and affiliates across America. Humanism is the idea that you can be good without a belief in a god.
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The Pluralism Project at Harvard University provides this page of links and reports related to different types of faiths/religion in the prison context.
Research and Statistics
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Search for salary information for federal employees by name, agency, job title, or location. Does not include employees involved in security work, the FBI, CIA, Defense Department, nuclear materials, IRS and jobs "essential to national security." The list contains most executive branch employees but does not cover the White House, Congress, the Postal Service, and independent agencies and commissions.
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Hall of Justice is a robust, searchable data inventory of nearly 10,000 datasets and research documents from across all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the federal government.
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Jail Media provides informational web pages about individual jails (e.g., the Maricopa, AZ jail;, the Sacramento, CA County jail, etc.). This link is for the list of individual jail web sites they maintain.
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A project of the American Bar Association, this online database breaks down collateral consequences to conviction on a state-by-state basis, listing federal and state laws and regulations that restrict employment, housing, and education benefits and other opportunities.
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Held in April 2006 in Austin, TX, the "Opening Up a Closed World" conference, which addressed the need for accountability and transparency in corrections systems, focused on effective prison oversight. This was an invitation-only gathering that included the top names in the criminal justice field, including federal judges, DOC directors, prisoners' rights activists and representatives from a variety of agencies including the ACA and ACLU. The three-day event included frank discussions about the closed world of prisons and how effective oversight could be achieved.
This Pace Law Review volume was born from that conference and contains a number of interesting articles related to oversight and advocacy.
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Prison Map attempts to compile satellite images of every detention center in the United States, displaying overhead maps of nearly 5,000 facilities.
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Public.Resource.org maintains links to government public information sites and documents.
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The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) website provides detailed evaluations and data on an ongoing reentry study conducted in conjunction with the Urban Institute.
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The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is a treasure trove of data related to crime, corrections and criminal justice in the United States. This site maintains the data from the last Sourcebook published.
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The Texas Justice Initiative is a website that tracks, collects, and publishes statistics on the deaths of individuals in police, jail or prison custody. The data is collected from the office of the Attorney General of Texas through the Texas Public Information Act.
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A project started by the University of Michigan Law School, Clearinghouse aggregates state jail and prison policies governing prisoner grievances, mail, publication and visiting for all 50 states. A majority of the information was obtained by filing several state Freedom of Information Act’s (FOIA).
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This site, by the International Centre for Prison Studies, provides numerical data for the highest and lowest prison populations in various categories in different regions worldwide, with excellent data on international prison systems.
Resources for Released / Soon to be Released Prisoners
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After Innocence is an organization that provides assistance for wrongfully convicted prisoners upon their release. Realizing the tremendous disadvantages these former inmates face. After Innocence works to coordinate with different social services in order to ease the transition of former inmates into civilian life.
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Family ReEntry is a nonprofit organization that works to provide community based services to individuals and families impacted by the criminal justice system. Through the integration of three sectors; Prevention, Intervention, and, Reentry, Family ReEntry aims to break the cycle of incarceration.
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This site, maintained by the Dept. of Justice, profiles prisoner reentry grant programs and resources. A number of downloadable publications related to reentry and recidivism are also available.
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Information page for the Federal Bonding Program, which provides free fidelity bonds to employers as an incentive to hire ex-prisoners.
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The New York Public Library's Correctional Services delivers a range of library programs at city, state, and federal facilities, including Connections, an annual guide and directory of resources in New York City available to help people when they are released from incarceration.
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The Prison Reentry Network is a nonprofit that works with prisoner prior to their release in aiding their transition back into their communities. Their work encompasses providing information to inmates on how to find food, shelter, and work opportunities. They distribute this information directly to prisoners through print editions of their programs as well as online to the families of the incarcerated individuals.
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The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers offers a collection of individual downloadable documents that profile the law and practice in each U.S. jurisdiction relating to relief from the collateral consequences of conviction. 54 jurisdictional profiles include provisions on loss and restoration of civil rights and firearms privileges, legal mechanisms for overcoming or mitigating collateral consequences, and provisions addressing non-discrimination in employment and licensing.
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Provides post-release services and programs for prisoners in the New York City area and occasionally publishes Fortune News, a free publication for prisoners that deals with criminal justice issues, primarily in New York.
Sentencing Issues (Mandatory Minimums, Three Strikes, etc.)
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Families to Amend California's Three Strikes is an organization specifically dedicated to amending California's "Three Strikes" law to ensure it is narrowly applied to violent offenders. This site is a good source for statistics, stories of petty crimes resulting in life sentences, etc.
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Families Against Mandatory Minimums is the premiere organization for information, advocacy and research on federal mandatory minimum sentences (plus info on state sentencing issues, too). FAMM publishes the FAMM-gram newsletter, a print publication.
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State profiles and related materials provide a detailed snapshot of existing proportionality doctrines and jurisprudence as of fall 2012. They are intended as a resource for practitioners in all phases of the criminal justice system, for sentencing and appellate courts, for policymakers and advocates concerned with the high economic and human costs of excessively long terms of imprisonment, and for defendants facing or serving extreme prison terms.
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The Death Penalty Project is a UK-based charity that uses legal resources "to protect priosners facing execution and achieve fairer and more humane justice systems."
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Considered one of the best sources for research and information on sentencing policies, alternative sentencing, felon disenfranchisement and related issues. Affiliated with the National Association of Sentencing Advocates (NASA), a membership organization dedicated to the promotion of fair, humane and equitable sentencing.
Sex Offender / Sex Offense Issues
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SOL Research provides factual information about sex offender laws and their effects on society.
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The Office of Justice Programs website, which lists SORNA-related caselaw decisions. It also includes a pdf of current case law and issues.
State by State Prison-Related Resources
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These 50 state profiles, plus one for the United States as a whole, draw on graphs made from two Prison Policy Initiative briefings and other materials PPI has produced on those states.
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Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice operates the Arizona Justice Project, which will consider cases of wrongful conviction in Arizona ONLY.
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Friends Outside is a advocacy and outreach organization committed to improving the quality of life of families, children and communities impacted by incarceration, and to assisting with successful community reentry and family reunification for those transitioning from confinement to freedom. Friends Outside provides direct services to prisoners and their families in the State of California, and conducts advocacy worldwide.
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A non-profit public interest law firm that litigates prison-related issues in California. They offer a variety of prisoner legal self-help materials on their site.
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The mission of the Georgia Justice Project is to eliminate injustices in the criminal justice system experienced by poor people and to provide them with resources to advance their human potential, proving that the cycle of poverty and crime can be broken.
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Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is part of a National Alliance founded to mount organized action against unjust treatment of individuals due to race or political beliefs. The Alliance can help publicize wrongful convictions, and advocate for prisoners by engaging in actions like calling and emailing IDOC staff when a prisoner does not receive the health care they need.
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CGLA provides criminal justice-related services to people in the Chicago area.
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New York State chapter of CURE
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The Prisoners' Rights Project advocates for constitutional and humane conditions of confinement for prisoners in the New York City and State correctional systems.
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Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York is a private, not-for-profit corporation that provides civil legal assistance to indigent prisoners in New York state facilities. PLS has been operating since 1976.
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Family-of-prisoners oriented group focused on sentencing disparity in Ohio.
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Families Outside is our program which provides trips to Pennsylvania State Correctional Institutions for family members to visit their loved ones. Children and seniors are welcome.
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The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project provides free legal assistance in civil matters to low-income people who are incarcerated or institutionalized in the state of Pennsylvania.
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Helps families preserve and strengthen positive relationships with relatives incarcerated in Virginia's state correctional centers.
War on Terror - Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo
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The University of Minnesota, Center for Bioethics, maintains a collection of declassified documents related to the treatment of "war on terror" detainees in U.S. custody, including internal military memos and reports.
Women's Issues - Prison and Corrections
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This section of the ACLU's National Prison Project website is related to legal cases/lawsuits and issues involving women prisoners.
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Amnesty International's Women in Prison Fact Sheet includes information on sexual assault, sentencing, medical neglect and more.
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"CCWP is a grassroots social justice organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC)."
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Information page maintained by PARC on issues related to incarcerated women (includes links to useful articles and other resources).
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This ACLU-sponsored site provides state-by-state information concerning pregnancy-related prison health care, plus links to state policies and contact details.
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Women and Prison tells stories of women's experiences in the criminal justice system, and "serves as a dedicated space for prisoners, those previously incarcerated, activists, students, academics and everyone who strives for social justice."
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A report by the Correctional Association of New York on women held in solitary in New York prisons.
