Links for families and and those in the system.

• Books to Prisoners: Nonprofit providing books for people in prison.

• Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul: Distributing the book inside prison.

• Delphi Forums: A number of forums providing support to prisoners and their families.

• Exponents: Nonprofit organization in New York assisting in transition from prison to outside life.

• Family and Corrections Network: Focuses on families and the criminal justice system.

         Families of Incarcerated Individuals: E-groups discussion forum (must register).

• Families Outside the Walls: Dedicated to the families and friends of prisoners.

• Inside Out: Resource network for prisoners and families.

• Locked Out: Providing books and support for transgendered, bisexual, lesbian, and gay prisoners.

• Northern California Service League: Provides transitional help for those who have been in jail or prison.

• The Other Prisoners: Families of prisoners.

• Outsiders Looking In: A book that advertises help for families of prisoners.

• Prison Library Project: Providing support for prisoners.

• Prisoners: Issues, articles, information, support, writing by prisoners. Focuses on Pennsylvania.

• Prisoners Resource Clearinghouse: Christian group providing a variety of practical services to prisoners.

• Pro-Family Advocates: Supports California prisoners and their families, particularly with family visiting restrictions.

• Raze the Walls: Prisoner run advocacy group.

• Reconciliation: Information about services provided for families of inmates in Tennessee.

• Restitution, Inc.: Helping prisoners make restitution.

          United Families of Prisoners: Support for families with loved ones in prison.

• Yahoo Clubs: A variety of discussion groups offering support and information.

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Education

• Correctional Educational Connections: Giving voices and choices to prisoners.

         Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Programs: Paper studying computer assisted programs in prison.

• Correctional Education for Learning Disabled: Articles from the National Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities Center.

• Corrections Education Research Center: University of Minnesota institute on education in prison.

• Computers and Prisoners: Issues relating to education and rehabilitation.

• Creative Writing at Cotton Prison: Educational resources, project description, and examples of prisoner writing.

• Prison Project: A report on a unique telecommunications project between a West Virginia school and the state penitentiary.

• Stillwater Prison Literacy Project: The prison literacy project at Minnesota's Stillwater prison.

• WSR Computer Project: An article by Paul Wright on the computer project for prisoners in Washington State.

• Women Breaking the Cycle of Prison: Teaching skills to women prisoners to reduce recidivism.

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• Surviving the criminal justice system. 

• Surviving Incarceration: Davrie Communications helps assist those entering federal prison. Promises to answer questions.

• Hillary Clinton's Pen Pal: Dr. Reinhold Aman wrote a combination dictionary and survival guide as a result of his experience as a federal prisoner. This page presents excerpts from his book.

• Pardon Me!: Information on federal and state pardons.

• Prisoner's Handbook: Twenty rules to follow from long term prisoners in Pennsylvania.

• Prisoners Wives Handbook: A guide for family and friends of tthe incarcerated.

• What to Expect . . . If sent to Mississippi's Parchman State Prison. A guide from a prison chaplain.

Health issues

• AIDS and HIV Infection in Prisoners: UCSF Fact sheet discussing health, prison policies, compassionate release, and other issues.

• Centerforce Health Programs: AIDS prevention in prisons.

• Concord Experiment: Follow up to Timothy Leary's experiments with prison inmates using psilocybin.

• Correctional HIV Consortium: The only national nonprofit organization providing services relating to HIV and TB in prisons.

• Factsheet on HIV Positive Inmates: The needs of an HIV+ inmate in prison.

• HIV in Illinois Prisons: A report by the Center for Disease Control with subsequent correspondence to corrections department.

• HIV Insite: Comprehensive information from UCSF

• HIV / AIDS in Prisons: The legal and ethical issues.

• HIV Policy and Law: Canadian organization concerned with policy and legal responses to AIDS, including issues affecting prisons and the criminal justice system.

• HIV Prison Issues: Focusing on Canada.

• Junk in the Joint: The prison drug scene.

• Lancet: A bibliography of the articles appearing in the British medical journal relating to health care in jails and prisons

• Mental Retardation and Criminal Justice: Questions and answers.

• National Commission on Correctional Health Care: Correctional care.

• Open Letter to Prison Doctors: An article from this site by Dr. Anna DeGroot, on working with women prisoners with AIDS.

• Prisoners and HIV / AIDS: News and information from The Body.

• Prison Violence, Inmate Suicide, Self-Injury: A scientific study of how prisoners respond to institutional violence.

• Prison Rape: A wake-up call.

• Sick Justice: Special report on Indiana's criminal justice system and the mentally ill.

• Stop Prisoner Rape: Preventing sexual violence in prison; extensive and detailed source of information.

• Weightlifting In Prisons: All the information that one could want -- including legal, physical, and psychological material.

• What Are Inmates' HIV Prevention Needs? Questions and answers.

• WHO Guidelines HIV in prison.

• Women in Prison: Policy issues relating to sexual abuse, health care, and other issues affecting women prisoners.

Law pertaining to prison

• California Code of Regulations: Title 15 of this Code governs the state prison system.

• Congressional Research Service: Findlaw provides these annotations to the constitution.

  • Prisoners' Rights Under the First Amendment.

  • Eighth Amendment Guarantees Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment.

  • Due Process Rights of Prisoners.

• Corrections Legal Defense Quarterly.

• The Eighth Amendment: "Talk of the Nation" realaudio program (1996) examining prison conditions, criminal justice issues, and the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

• Habeas & Prison Litigation Case Law Update Newsletter of the Federal Judicial Center, 1996 to 1998.

• Law and Prisons/Prisoners Legal decisions and papers.

• Prison Law Office: Information about the leading office assisting California state prisoners. Self help materials include manuals on habeas corpus and parolee rights.

• Prison Law Project: National Lawyer's Guild.

• Prisoner Law: Professor Teresa Miller's site, with information on jailhouse lawyering, immigration detention, and her film forum.

• Resource Guide to Managing Prisoner Civil Rights Litigation: Federal Judicial Center, lengthy document in pdf format written in light of Prison Litigation Reform Act.

• Southern Center for Human Rights: Prison and jail report of the SCHR.

• California Attorneys for Criminal Justice: A leading association of defense attorneys.

• Campaign for Equity-Restorative Justice: Campaign focusing on fairness and equity as basic components of justice.

• Criminal Justice Consortium: Changing public policies that result in an over-reliance on incarceration.

• Criminal Justice Links: Comprehensive list of criminal justice information and resources.

• CURE Prison and criminal justice reform.

• Families to Amend California's Three Strikes Law: Action to change this law.

• National Center on Institutions and Alternatives: Research and the development of criminal justice alternatives.

• Sentencing Project: Criminal justice policy analysis, data and program information.

• YC'B'TAL Justice Institute: Former CACJ president James Thomson.

   

  Writing and art from the inside 

  • Beat Within: Witing and art from juvenile offenders.

  • Cell Door: An internet magazine written by prisoners for the outside world.

  • The Dagger: Prison issue of this online zine.

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons: Scholarly publication including the accounts, experiences, and analysis of prisoners.

  • Prison Connections: The online journal of the Western Massachusetts Prison Issues Group.

  • Prison Legal News: A journal by prisoners keeping track of the law.

  • Voices Behind the Walls: Newsletter by Pennsylvania prisoners.

  • Walking Steel: Online newsletter of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown.

  • Women Speak Out: From prison and on death row, a prison journal by and for women.

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    • Arkansis Inmate Collective: Showcases works written by Arkansas prisoners.

    • Art Behind Bars: Art project from Monroe County jail -- with a t-shirt for sale.

    Bah Bah Black Sheep: Letters from a prisoner to home.

    • Part II

    • Part III.

     

    • Break Through Productions: Writing by Ronald Bell.

    • Bruce Franklin: Contains essays exploring prison writing

    • Gallery: Art from behind the wall.

    • How to Make Jail Hot Chocolate: And other art work.

    • I Know Why the Caged Lion Roars: A mother's journal. Also has informatiion on Native American and other prisoners.

    • Keepers and the Caged: A book of voices from both sides of the prison experience. Includes sample chapters.

    • Larry Jeffries: Essays by a prisoner.

    • Poems from the Pen: Poetry from inside.

    • Prison Abolition: Writing from Canada about the prison experience, excerpted from the book of the same name.

    • Prison Scene: Photography of Herman Krieger.

    • PrisonZone: Art, poetry, and other information on prisoners.

    • Steven Dubov: Art and sculpture by prisoner serving life without parole.

    • Twenty Guns & Booze: A visit to the Louisiana State Penitentiary rodeo. (Ducts Magazine, Spring 2000.)

    • Voice of the Prisoner: Art and poetry by prisoners. The site also includes personals from prisoners seeking correspondence or attorneys.

    • The Walls: Experiences at the Missouri State Penitentiary in the 1960s

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    Worship issues

    • After RFRA: An article from this site discussing the religious rights of prisoners in light of the Supreme Court case overturning the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

    • Aleph Institute: Information and support concerning the religious practice of Jewish prisoners.

    • Alex Montana: Religious rights of Native American prisoner in Texas.

    • Angulimala: Buddhist prison chaplaincy in the United King.0 3

    • Buddhist Peace Fellowship: Their prison project.

    • Catholic Prison Ministry: Australian ministry.

    • Dove's Nest: Working with women prisoners from a Christian perspective.

    • Engaged Zen: Buddhist prison ministry.

    • Jews In Prison: Information for Jewish Prisoners.

    • I Was in Prison: Message of the pope to prisoners, July 12, 2000.

    • Johnny C-Note's Joint: Not a stranger to life inside, this page includes his version of the Bible.

    • Lighthouse Ministry: Working in jails and prisons.

    • Native American Circle: Religious practice of Native American prisoners in Oregon prisons.

    • Native American Prisoner Support: Database and information relating to religious practice in prison.

    • Nuhearts: Christian site, featuring art, poetry, stories, recipies, family support resources and more.

    • Pastors to Prisoners: Support for ministers working in prisons.

    • Prison Sangha: Buddhist teachings, including those on death row.

    • Prisoners of Hope: Prison ministry.

    • Religion Behind Bars: A 1995 summary of the religious rights of prisoners.

    • Sapawiyaka: Native American spiritual group from a South Dakota prison.

              Torah Perspective on Incarceration: Paper by Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar.

    • Transcendental Meditation: In prison.

    • Travelling the Spiritual Path: The struggle for Native American religious freedom in prison.

    • Visions for Prisons: Uses attitudinal healing and deep meditation to promote peace in prisons.

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