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Jewish Prisoner Services International - Outreach and services to Jewish prisoners. Site includes information on their activities, pen pal program, How You Can Help section and links.
 
JusticeWorks Community - A not-for-profit organization that advocates on behalf of female prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families.
 
Koch Crime Institute - A privately-funded research and policy organization which studies the criminal justice system and identifies the best ways to reduce and prevent crime, especially juvenile crime.
 
Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice - The Fund supports the WMK Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, celebrates our heroes at an annual awards evening, and makes grants to fierce and energetic projects to help guarantee the legacy of William Moses Kunstler. Site includes contact information and details on the Vigil to Oppose the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
 
Murder Victims Families For Reconciliation - MVFR opposes the death penalty and works to change the criminal justice system. MVFR works actively in the areas of Public Education, Policy Reform and Victim Support. Site includes history, upcoming events, membership information and more.
 
National Association for Lay Visiting - Describing the work of Lay Visitors and issues surrounding Lay Visiting to Police Stations to check on the welfare of those in detention. Based in the UK.
 
Northern California Service League - NCSL, a non-profit agency, works to reduce crime by providing counseling, job placement, Life Skills training, transitional housing, and social services to jail inmates, prisoners, and ex-offenders. Site includes sections on programs and services, links, and contact information.
 
Postcards from Prison - Many images to send as postcards. "Provides the opportunity to break out and escape the tedium of work, school or home using images of prison and punishment. A prisons bookstore is also available.
 
Prison Action Committee Community Re-Entry Program - Information about the Prison Action Committee's work in Illinois to help ex-offenders reintegrate into society.
 
Prison Activist Resource Center - The source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system. Educational and activist resources, news, alerts and analysis.
 
PrisonSucks.Com - Research on the prison industrial complex and crime control industry
 
Prisoners Education Trust - Prisoners Education Trust supports distance learning for UK prisoners by offering grants to buy correspondence courses. The aim of the Trust is to reduce offending through education.
 
Release Into Prison - A forum for those wishing to engage with the issues of spirituality in the jails at the heart of England.
 
Restorative Justice Ministry Network - A nation-wide directory of Criminal Justice Ministries. Free listing to any Criminal Justice Ministries. Web-sites for Criminal Justice Minsitries.
 
Rittenhouse: New Vision of Transformative Justice - Rittenhouse works to develop healing transformative justice (instead of the retributive justice of our present criminal justice system). "We believe crime can become an opportunity to bring positive transformation into the lives of victims, offenders, and their families. Transformative justice addresses the needs of victims, offenders and communities by making our basic goal healing, NOT revenge!" Site includes info on Rittpals prison pen pals, JustRitt News, and International Conference on Penal Abolition.
 
SHARP: Help and Advice for the Relatives of UK Prisoners - Help and advice for the relatives and friends of UK prisoners and those accused of a crime, based in Shropshire England but available to anyone in the UK. Site includes news, contact information, and listing of services available.
 
Stop Prisoner Rape - Dedicated to combating the rape of male and female prisoners and providing such assistance as they can to survivors of jailhouse rape.
 
Texas Prison Abuse Campaign - Advocacy, exposing abuses, links to information on many individual cases.
 
The Claremont Forum - This non-profit organization sponsors diverse community services, such as The Prison Library Project, a Wellness by Design program, and educational and arts programming.
 
The Sentencing Project - Information about crime, courts, sentencing, criminal justice policy analysis, punishment, alternatives to incarceration, jails, prisons, race, economic class, and reform. Technical assistance, training, publications available.
 
 

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