Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty
Lincoln, NE
2011
Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty was founded in 1981 after Governor Thone had vetoed a bill passed by Nebraska’s unicameral legislature that would have repealed the...
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New Beginnings Reentry Services
Brockton, MA
2019
New Beginnings Reentry Services works to reduce recidivism by advocating for and building the capacity of women who are reentering local communities during and after incarceration.
New Jim Crow Movement
Jacksonville, FL
2013
The New Jim Crow Movement is a grassroots community organization that uses popular education programs. The cradle to the prison pipeline is our focus along with creating alternatives...
New York State Prisoner Justice Network
Albany, NY
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
The goal of the New York State Prisoner Justice Network is to build our individual and collective strength and to challenge and change New York’s criminal injustice system...
Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition
New Orleans, LA
2017
The mission of Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition is to use education and organizing to decrease incarceration, increase oversight, and improve the conditions in Orleans Parish Prison, emphasizing...
Pennsylvania Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (PACFSY)
Philadelphia, PA
2014
The Pennsylvania Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Youth is a group of individuals and organizations dedicated to ensuring a fair chance for all of Pennsylvania’s children. The...
Prison Activist Resource Center
Oakland, CA
2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) is a prison abolitionist group committed to exposing and challenging all forms of institutionalized racism, sexism, able-ism, heterosexism, and classism, specifically within the...
Prison Birth Project
Northampton, MA
2015, 2014, 2013
When the gender-specific jail opened in Chicopee in 2008, co-founders Lisa Andrews and Marianne Bullock understood that incarcerated women are not offered the full spectrum of reproductive options,...
Prison Justice and Whistleblowers Support Campaign
Pittsburgh, PA
2017, 2016
The Prisoner Justice and Whistleblower Support Campaign (PJWSC) developed out of the Dallas 6 Support Campaign, which was organized by prisoners and family members to defend Carrington Keys,...
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition
Oakland, CA
2017, 2014, 2013
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS) is a coalition based in the Bay Area made up of grassroots organizations & community members committed to amplifying the voices of and...
Project Ava
Colorado Springs, CO
2018
Project Ava is a media nonprofit providing a platform for those of underrepresented identities to share their stories to spark progressive dialogue.
Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty
Lanett, AL
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty is an Alabama death row prisoner founded and run organization. We were founded in 1989. Our mission is to work together...
Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
Brooklyn, NY
2016, 2014
The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP), an Alternative-to-Detention program for queer, trans, and HIV+ immigrant detainees, asylees, and their families across the United States. QDEP supports folks in...
Redbird Books to Prisoners
Columbus, OH
2016
Redbird exists to further the abolition of prisons, the prison industrial complex, incarceration, slavery, carceral logics, and cages of all kinds, through prisoner direct-support as well as correspondence...
Release Aging People in Prison
New York, NY
2015
Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) works to get elderly and infirm people out of New York State prisons. The number of people over age 50 in New...