Communication Resources

Inmate Letter Campaign This Yahoo group recruits people to write letters in support of prisoners who need medical care.

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• After Innocence After Innocence is an organization that provides assistance for wrongfully convicted prisoners upon their release. Realizing the tremendous disadvantages these former inmates face. After Innocence works to coordinate with different social services in order to ease the transition of former inmates into civilian life. 
• Family ReEntry Family ReEntry is a nonprofit organization that works to provide community based services to individuals and families impacted by the criminal justice system. Through the integration of three sectors; Prevention, Intervention, and, Reentry, Family ReEntry aims to break the cycle of incarceration.
• National Reentry Resource Center This site, maintained by the Dept. of Justice, profiles prisoner reentry grant programs and resources. A number of downloadable publications related to reentry and recidivism are also available.
• Federal Bonding Program Information page for the Federal Bonding Program, which provides free fidelity bonds to employers as an incentive to hire ex-prisoners.
• New York Public Library's Correctional Services The New York Public Library's Correctional Services delivers a range of library programs at city, state, and federal facilities, including Connections, an annual guide and directory of resources in New York City available to help people when they are released from incarceration.
• Prisoner Reentry Network The Prison Reentry Network is a nonprofit that works with prisoner prior to their release in aiding their transition back into their communities. Their work encompasses providing information to inmates on how to find food, shelter, and work opportunities. They distribute this information directly to prisoners through print editions of their programs as well as online to the families of the incarcerated individuals. 
• Restoration of Human Rights Project The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers offers a collection of individual downloadable documents that profile the law and practice in each U.S. jurisdiction relating to relief from the collateral consequences of conviction. 54 jurisdictional profiles include provisions on loss and restoration of civil rights and firearms privileges, legal mechanisms for overcoming or mitigating collateral consequences, and provisions addressing non-discrimination in employment and licensing.
• The Fortune Society Provides post-release services and programs for prisoners in the New York City area and occasionally publishes Fortune News, a free publication for prisoners that deals with criminal justice issues, primarily in New York

• National PREA Resource Center The National PREA Resource Center provides information about the Prison Rape Elimination Act standards, and implementation of PREA in correctional facilities nationwide.
• Perilous - A chronicle of prison unrest across the US and Canada 2010-Present Perilous is a project supported by a network of people—including you—who seek to gather and track information on prison uprisings, riots, protests, strikes, and other disturbances within public and private jails, prisons, and detention centers in the US and Canada. In this process, we rely on crowdsourced information in addition to local news outlets and our own reporting.
• Recidivism: The Ultimate Guide A comprehensive guide to recidivism, including facts and statistics about recidivism rates as well as causes and impacts. 
• The Next Frontier in the Criminal Justice Conversation This resource explores the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees a defendant's right to counsel, and discusses how the poor are still disadvantaged in court despite this right. The resource also provides statistics regarding the amount of money the United States spends on public defense in comparison to other major countries, and how many public defenders are being overworked.
• Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples Movement At the forefront of leadership in the struggle to end the US system of mass incarceration stands the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement (FICPM), a nationwide coalition of formerly incarcerated men and women who are holding forth a radical vision for justice and transformation, and who are putting that vision to work in towns and cities across the nation.
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) is the preeminent organization in the United States advancing the mission of the nation's criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct. A professional bar association founded in 1958, NACDL's approximately 9,200 direct members in 28 countries - and 90 state, provincial and local affiliate organizations totaling up to 40,000 attorneys -- include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors and judges committed to preserving fairness within America's criminal justice system. In addition to its website, resources include NACDL's State Criminal Justice Network Conference, Advocacy Calls, NACDL First Amendment Project and NACDL Reports.
• JustLeadershipUSA JLUSA is a national criminal justice advocacy organization dedicated to cutting the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030. We believe those closest to the problem are closest to the solution, and we are committed to lifting the voices of currently and formerly incarcerated leaders in the policy conversation. Contact: JustLeadershipUSA, 1900 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10035; (347)-454-2195
• Justice Policy Institute The Justice Policy Institute works to end over-reliance on incarceration and advocates for alternatives to prison through research, public education and media outreach.
• The Open File BlogThis website is the culmination of the work of an informal collection of lawyers, law professors, law students and policy advocates who are concerned about prosecutorial misconduct.
• Real Cost of Prisons Project Works to inform people about the real cost of prisons and mass incarceration; publishes the Real Cost of Prisons Comix; hosts the Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters on their site.
• Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety The site for Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety. Works to address the needs of "Inmates & Victims, Children and the Prison Reform Community," with an emphasis on California, where they are based.