POLICY + PUBLIC ADVOCACY RESOURCES
360 Degrees is the first interactive web site designed to explore the criminal justice system and its prison population.
American Civil Liberties Union seeks to create constitutional conditions of confinement and strengthen prisoners’ rights through class action litigation and public education
American Probation and Parole Association is at the vanguard in exploring issues relevant to the field of community-based corrections.
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.
Center for Court Innovation and the Bureau of Justice Assistance offers information about innovative new programs that are improving the way criminal justice agencies work.
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice is a private non-profit organization with a mission to reduce reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems.
Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants is a non-profit nationwide organization dedicated to the reduction of crime through the reform of the criminal justice system.
Correctional Association of New York has focused public attention on the misguided efforts to use prison as a salve for serious social problems.
Death Penalty Focus is a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.
Drop the Rock is a powerful array of individuals and organizations throughout New York State working vigorously on a statewide campaign to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
Families Against Mandatory Minimums is a national organization of citizens working to reform federal and state mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial discretion.
Federal CURE is a nonprofit organization that deals solely with the issues faced by federal inmates and their loved ones.
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent further injustice.
Justice Policy Institute is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce society’s reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social problems.
The Legal Action Center is the only non-profit law and policy organization in the United States whose sole mission is to fight discrimination against people with histories of addiction, HIV/AIDS, or criminal records, and to advocate for sound public policies in these areas.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is the leading nonprofit Latino litigation, advocacy and educational outreach institution in the United States.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. works primarily through the courts via advocacy, educational outreach, legislation monitoring, coalition building and policy research.
The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to the abolition of capital punishment.
National Council on Crime and Delinquency is a nonprofit organization which promotes effective, humane, fair and economically sound solutions to family, community and justice problems.
National Development and Research Institutes is a non-profit research and educational organization dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge in the areas of drug and alcohol abuse, treatment and recovery; HIV, AIDS and HCV; therapeutic communities; youth at risk; and related areas of public health, mental health, criminal justice, urban problems, prevention and epidemiology.
National HIRE Network works to increase the number and quality of job opportunities available to people with criminal records by changing public policies, employment practices and public opinion.
Partnership for Safety & Justice unites people convicted of crime, survivors of crime, and the families of both to advance approaches that redirect policies away from an over-reliance on incarceration to effective strategies that reduce violence and increase safety.
Prison Activist Resource Center is the source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system.
Prison Legal News is a monthly journal edited by Washington State prisoner Paul Wright that covers prison-related news and analysis from across the country and around the world.
The Prison Moratorium Project was formed in 1995 to educate the public about criminal justice issues and to give youth and communities a greater voice in criminal justice debates.
The Sentencing Project is an independent source of criminal justice policy analysis, data and program information for the public and policy-makers.
Stop Prisoner Rape is a small non-profit organization dedicated to combating the rape of male and female prisoners and to helping survivors of jailhouse rape.
Truth in Justice is a non-profit organization working to free wholly innocent men and women convicted of crimes they did not commit, and to prevent wrongful convictions by educating the public regarding the vulnerabilities in the U.S. criminal justice system that make these miscarriages possible.
The Urban Institute is a nonpartisan economic and social policy organization.
U.S. Justice Fund at the Open Society Institute focuses on securing procedural and substantive justice for all individuals by developing criminal and civil justice systems that are accessible and impartial.