ABO Comix
Oakland, CA
2019
ABO Comix is a collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ people experiencing incarceration through art.
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All of Us or None – Riverside
Corona, CA
2017, 2016, 2014, 2012
All of Us Or None is a national organizing initiative of prisoners, formerly incarcerated people, friends and loved ones that organize and take action to end the discrimination...
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
San Francisco, CA
2017, 2015, 2014
CCWP is a grassroots social justice organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by...
California Families Against Solitary Confinement
Inglewood, CA
2014
Born from the first July 2011 hunger strike initiated in the Pelican Bay SHU, a movement of family members came together in September 2011 to support efforts to...
California Prison Focus
Oakland, CA
2016, 2015
California Prison Focus works to abolish the California prison system in its present condition. We investigate and expose human rights abuses with the goal of ending long term...
Coalition for Educational Justice
Los Angeles, CA
2013, 2011
Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) is a grassroots, multiracial, membership organization whose purpose is to advocate for the needs of students, parents, and teachers with a focus on...
Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC)
Irvine, CA
2014, 2013
CIVIC works to end the isolation and abuse of people in US civil immigration detention through structured visitation combined with nationwide detention monitoring and advocacy. CIVIC was founded...
Community Ready Corps (CRC)
Oakland, CA
2019
Community Ready Corps (CRC) is a liberation organization that combats white supremacy and actively supports self determination in the Black community in nine specific areas. Their use of...
Critical Resistance Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe...
Critical Resistance Oakland
Oakland, CA
2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe...
CURE – Nevada
Las Vegas, NV
2014
We are a support- and advocacy group of people whose life has been negatively affected by Nevada’s criminal justice system.We offer compassionate caring and information to help prisoners,...
Dignity and Power Now
Los Angeles, CA
2015
Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a grassroots organization based in Los Angeles that fights for the dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families, and communities. In...
Fair Chance Project
Los Angeles, CA
2018
Fair Chance Project (FCP) was formed in mid 2009 by newly released lifers who came out thru the courts and were committed to the men and women they...
Genesis
Oakland, CA
2016
Genesis is a community of member organizations working together for access to opportunity, health and quality education for people throughout the Bay Area. Unifying our member congregations and...
Genesis
Oakland, CA
2016
Genesis is a community of member organizations working together for access to opportunity, health and quality education for people throughout the Bay Area. Unifying our member congregations and...