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Resources
Prison Talk
Online
http://www.prisontalk.com
PTO
is the LARGEST and most comprehensive database of Prison/er Support
on the Internet.
FAMM Families Against Mandatory Minimums
http://famm.org
FAMM is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to challenge
inflexible and excessive penalties required by mandatory sentencing laws. FAMM
promotes sentencing policies that give judges the discretion to distinguish
between defendants and sentence them according to their role in the offense,
seriousness of the offense and potential for rehabilitation. FAMM's 35,000
members include prisoners and their families, attorneys, judges, criminal
justice experts and concerned citizens. FAMM does not argue that crime should go
unpunished - but the punishment must fit the crime.
PARC The Prison Activist Resource Center
http://www.prisonactivist.org/
Who we are,
PARC is committed to exposing and challenging the institutionalized racism of
the criminal injustice system and to further developing anti-racism as
individuals and throughout our organization. PARC provides support for
educators, activists, prisoners, and prisoners' families. This work includes
building networks for action and producing materials that expose human rights
violations while fundamentally challenging the rapid expansion of the prison
industrial complex.
PARC Goals
* To expose the myths that sustain widespread injustices in prisons and in the
communities most affected by mass imprisonment.
* To inspire and motivate people to take positive action against the
mass-incarceration system and for prisoners' human and civil rights.
* To provide practical support to activists who are taking such action.
SPR Stop Prisoner Rape
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
SPR seeks to end sexual violence committed against men, women, and youth in all forms of detention.
SPR is committed to fighting sexual violence against men, women, and children in all forms of detention. This website therefore necessarily includes sexually explicit material that some may wish to avoid.
The November Coalition
http://www.november.org/
We are a growing body of citizens whose lives have been gravely affected by our government's present drug policy. We are prisoners, parents of those incarcerated, wives, sisters, brothers, children, aunts, uncles and cousins. Some of us are loving friends and concerned citizens, each of us alarmed that drug war casualties are rising in absolutely horrific proportions.
FIGHT Families Of Inmates Given Harsh Treatment
http://www.fighttogether.com/
FIGHTTogether.com is designed to be the ultimate resource for those of us who have to navigate the criminal justice system in America. We have brought together people with many years of experience to share their hard-earned knowledge of the system so YOU can benefit from what they have learned, and hopefully, avoid many of the mistakes that have cause hardship to so many others.
Prisonsucks.com
http://www.prisonsucks.com/
Prisonsucks.com is a clearinghouse for
useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry.
PRUP Prison Reform Unity Project
http://www.prup.us
Coordinate an annual day of unity for all human rights and prison reform groups.
PRUP's mission is to Facilitate with organizations, the families and friends of prisoners and people of conscience to conduct annual rallies at state capitols, prisons and other appropriate sites across America in support of human rights and prison reform.
Assist existing organizations to cement friendships and create networks, which will permit them to better work together to achieve their goals toward the cause of human rights and prison reform.
Bring together individuals to actively participate with activist groups on Prison Reform Unity Day thereby encouraging people to join the existing organizations, thus strengthening and further empowering them.
Form a grass roots block of enlightened and educated activists, families and friends of prisoners and concerned citizens of such massive numbers that we can effect with our votes the enactment of legislation that affects prison human rights issues.
Making The Walls Transparent
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/starke/
Making The Walls
Transparent is mainly about Florida's "Arbeit Lagers" and prisons.
There is an abundance of information for inmates, family and friends as well. Worth
visiting!
Decriminalization
NORMAL National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
http://www.norml.org/
A Voice for Responsible Marijuana Smokers, Since
its founding in 1970, NORML has provided a voice in the public policy debate for
those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition and favor an end to the
practice of arresting marijuana smokers. A nonprofit public-interest advocacy
group, NORML represents the interests of the tens of millions of Americans who
smoke marijuana responsibly.
COYOTE Call Off Your Tired Ethics
http://www.bayswan.org/COYOTE.html
COYOTE ("Call Off Your Tired Ethics") was founded by Margo St. James
in 1973. COYOTE works for the rights of all sex workers: strippers, phone
operators, prostitutes, porn actresses etc. of all genders and persuasions.
COYOTE supports programs to assist sex workers in their choice to change their
occupation, works to prevent the scapegoating of sex workers for AIDS and other
STDs, and to educate sex workers, their clients and the general public about
safe sex.
SWOP Sex Workers Outreach Project
http://www.swop-usa.org/
SWOP focuses on safety, dignity, diversity and the changing needs of sex
industry workers, to foster an environment which enables and affirms individual
choices and occupational rights.
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Books
The Inmate Prison Experience
by
Mary K. Stohr, Craig K. Hemmons
Life in Prison
by Stanley “Tookie” Williams, Barbara Cottman
Becnal
You Are Going to Prison
by Jim Hogshire
Behind
Bars: Surviving Prison by
Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards
Women
in Prison: Inside the Concrete Womb
by Kathryn Watterson
Downsizing Prisons: How To Reduce Crime
And End Mass Incarceration by Michael
Jacobson
Going to Prison?
5th Edition
by Jimmy Tayoun, Audenreed Press
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