Resources
A Sentence of Their Own: A film that chronicles one family’s annual pilgrimage to a New Hampshire State Prison, revealing the damaging impact incarceration has on families.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country
Amnesty International USA: Our purpose is to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied.
Center for Behavioral Health, Justice, & Public Policy: promotes service integration for persons with mental illness and/or addictive disorders in the justice system.
Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents: Our mission is the prevention of intergenerational crime and incarceration. Our goals are the production of high quality documentation on and the development of model services for children of criminal offenders and their families. (NOTE: This organization is based in California, however serves as a model for what can be done in other areas.)
Center for Law and Justice: Based in NY, promotes the empowerment of individuals and communities to change social policy with a goal of creating equal opportunities for all people without regard to economic status, race or ethnicity
Centerforce: support, education, and advocacy for individuals, families and communities impacted by incarceration
Children Rights Information Network: a global network coordinating and promoting information and action on child rights. More than 2,000 member organisations and tens of thousands more activists from across the world rely on CRIN for research and information
Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved, inlcuding Prison Health and Rentry Issues
Families Against Mandatory Minimums: the national voice for fair and proportionate sentencing laws. We shine a light on the human face of sentencing, advocate for state and federal sentencing reform, and mobilize thousands of individuals and families whose lives are adversely affected by unjust sentences.
Families of Prisoners: Information and resources for the family members of inmates incarcerated in local, state or federal prisons and jails.
Family and Corrections Network: provides ways for those concerned with families of prisoners to share information and experiences in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
Family Justice: taps the natural resources of families, the collective wisdom of communities, and the expertise of government to make families healthier and neighborhoods safer. Since its founding in 1996, Family Justice has emerged as a leading national nonprofit institution dedicated to developing innovative, cost-effective solutions that benefit people at greatest risk of cycling in and out of the justice system.
FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment: a women-led, grassroots collective of people with incarcerated loved ones, mobilizing ourselves to develop and empower one another, impact public policy and and fight for social justice.
Friends Outside: a nonprofit community based organization that has been providing programs and service to families and individuals involved in the criminal justice system since 1955. ( NOTE: This is a California organization however serves as a model for what could be done in other areas.)
Get on the Bus: Uniting Children with their mothers and fathers in prison. in California. Get On The Bus offers free transportation for the children and their caregivers to the prison, provides travel bags for the children, comfort bags for the caregivers, a photo of each child with his or her parent, and meals for the day (breakfast, snacks on the bus, a special lunch at the prison with their parent and dinner on the way home), all at no cost to the children’s family
Power Inside Resource List: Power Inside seeks safety, dignity and justice for women and families in Baltimore. Social change that ends gender violence and all forms of oppression is necessary to make our vision a reality. This page is a list of resources that Power Inside has created.
Prison Families of New York, Inc.:
Training *** Advocacy *** Policy Development
Specialists in the effects of NYS incarceration on prisoners’ children and families and how to best encourage their success, Family Strengthening through Information, Support and Community-Building, Prison Family and Re-entry Resource Development for Schools, Communities, Churches, Government (NY State and Federal)
Prison Support: A site dedicated to families and friends of prison inmates
Prison Talk: Online web community conceived in a prison cell, designed in a halfway house, and funded by donations from families of ex-offenders, to bring those with an interest in the prisoner support community a forum in which their issues and concerns may be addressed by others in similar circumstances and beliefs.
Prisoners of Love: Both a book, a newsletter, and this web site, written and produced with the support of friends and families of the incarcerated to serve those families with dignity, love and respect.
