Links

California Coalition for Women Prisoners - provides resources for and information about women in prisons. They also put out a quarterly publication

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice - provides many services (technical and legal) to juveniles, as well as doing policy research about juveniles in prison.

Critical Resistance - activist organization focused on ending the prison-industrial complex.

Families Against Mandatory Minimums - a national organization dedicated to promoting more flexible sentencing laws

The Jericho Movement - provides info about political prisoners and advocates for their immediate release

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - rejects capital punishment by providing information, and advocating for policy change

Prison Activist Resource Center - great links and resources for prisoners, those formerly incarecerated, and prison activists... good source for information as well.

Prison Moratorium Project - activist organization working to halt prison construction in New York. They also do workshops for youth and community organizations.

Prison Policy Initiative - advocates for prison reform and researches incarceration policy

Prison Zone - photo project about conditions inside prisons

Prisoners of the Census - gives information on how non-voting prison populations are counted to support redistricting that politically benefits rural conservatives

Prisonsucks.com - provides comprehensive, up-to-date statistics and research on the prison system

The Sentencing Project - creates alternative sentencing programs and publishes reports on inequalities in the criminal justice system

The Western Prison Project - unites grassroots prison activist groups in the western states and provides information on a variety of prison-related issues.