Legal organizations
American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union is an American nonprofit civil rights organization founded in 1920. ACLU affiliates are active in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The ACLU provides legal assistance in cases where it considers civil liberties at risk with advocacy from a secularist stance against excessive religious entanglement over the United States government.
Prison Legal News
Prison Legal News, a project of the Human Rights Defense Center, is an independent 36-page monthly publication that provides a cutting edge review and analysis of prisoner rights, court rulings, and news about prison issues.
Prison Activist Resource Center
Prison Activist Resource Center is an excellent source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system. The project includes resources for educators and activists, and up-to-date news and analysis on issues such as the prison crisis, women prisoners, and control units. The Women’s Prison Book Project out of Minneapolis can also be contacted through this website.
Other organizations
Justice Arts Coalition
The Justice Arts Coalition (JAC) unites teaching artists, arts advocates, incarcerated artists and their loved ones in an effort to build and support a common agenda and provide a unique voice in public dialogue around the intersection of the arts and justice.
RECLAIM
Formerly University Beyond Bars, RECLAIM provides reintegration support for individuals and families, focused on mental, emotional, and relational health to prepare for the return home.
Free Bird Publishers
Free Bird Publishers provides inmate services, prisoner publications, education for inmates, prisoner services, and other products for the incarcerated. We also offer self-publishing services to inmates and their loved ones.
American Prison Writing Archive
The mission of the American Prison Writing Archive (APWA) is to override preexisting notions of prisons and incarcerated people, with first-person accounts by those who live and work in the criminal justice system.
Left Bank Books Collective
Left Bank Books is a dedicated supporter of Books to Prisoners. They are also Seattle’s best bookstore and a radical collective of great folks.
Prison book program finder
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