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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Coalition for Prisoners' Rights
Sante Fe, NM
2014, 2013, 2011
The Coalition for Prisoners' Rights fights systemic change by challenging the social and economic injustice inherent in the US punishment system. They have been publishing their Newsletter for...
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...
Decarcerate PA
Philadelphia, PA
2015, 2013
Decarcerate PA is a coalition of organizations and individuals seeking an end to mass incarceration and the harms it brings our communities. Decarcerate PA seeks mechanisms to build...
Fight for Lifers – West
Pittsburgh, PA
2012, 2013, 2014
Fight for Lifers West is dedicated to supporting people sentenced to life without parole and their loved ones, while striving to improve the criminal justice system and building...
Filling the Gap
Cincinnati, OH
2019
Filling the Gap empowers women impacted by the prison system through advocacy and leadership opportunities.
Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Atlanta, GA
2013
Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty is the statewide coalition of organizations and individuals working to end the death penalty, build power in communities targeted by the...
Human Rights Coalition
Philadelphia, PA
2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
The Human Rights Coalition (HRC) is a group of predominately prisoners' families, ex-prisoners and some supporters. Our ultimate goal is to abolish prisons. The prison system is based...
Milk Not Jails
Brooklyn, NY
2012, 2013
Milk Not Jails is a volunteer-run, grassroots campaign working to build a new urban-rural alliance in New York State. We are urban and rural residents, prison justice activists,...
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...
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,...
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...