2008 ' Assistance Directory

Copyright ©1977 by the National Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Second Edition: 10/77 Third Edition: 9/79 Fourth Edition: 10/81 Fifth Edition: 12/82 Sixth Edition: 1/85 Seventh Edition: 4/86 Eighth Edition: 12/88 Ninth Edition: 9/90 Tenth Edition: 1/93 Eleventh Edition: 7/96 Twelfth Edition: 11/98 Thirteenth Edition: 12/01 Fourteenth Edition: 01/07 Fifteenth Edition: 12/07

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NATIONAL AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ...... 4

Corrections/Criminal Justice/Legal ...... 4 AIDS/Hepatitis ...... 8 Book Programs/Pen Pals...... 9 Death Penalty ...... 10 Drug Law Reform ...... 11 Families/Visitation...... 11 Gays/Lesbians ...... 12 Immigrants Rights...... 13 Juveniles...... 14 Mental Health...... 14 Religious ...... 14 Technology ...... 15 Veterans/Military ...... 15 Voting Rights ...... 15 Women ...... 15

STATE AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS ...... 17

Alabama...... 17 Alaska...... 17 Arizona...... 19 Arkansas...... 19 California...... 19 Colorado ...... 23 Connecticut...... 24 Delaware...... 25 District of Columbia...... 26 Florida...... 27 Georgia ...... 28 Hawaii ...... 28 Idaho...... 28 Illinois...... 29 Indiana...... 30 Iowa ...... 30 Kansas...... 31 Kentucky...... 31 Louisiana ...... 31 Maine...... 32 Maryland ...... 33 Massachusetts...... 34

2 Michigan ...... 35 Minnesota ...... 35 Mississippi ...... 36 Missouri ...... 36 Montana...... 38 Nebraska ...... 38 Nevada ...... 38 New Hampshire ...... 39 New Jersey ...... 39 New Mexico ...... 40 New York ...... 41 North Carolina...... 45 North Dakota...... 46 Ohio ...... 46 Oklahoma ...... 47 Oregon...... 47 Pennsylvania ...... 49 Puerto Rico ...... 52 Rhode Island...... 52 South Carolina ...... 52 South Dakota...... 53 Tennessee...... 53 Texas...... 53 Utah ...... 54 Vermont ...... 55 Virginia...... 55 Washington...... 57 West Virginia...... 57 Wisconsin ...... 58 Wyoming...... 59

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ...... 60

PUBLICATIONS ...... 62

Books, Reports, etc...... 62 Newsletters ...... 67

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ...... 70 DUPLICATING SERVICES ...... 70

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CORRECTIONS/CRIMINAL Prison System and Lessons of Marion: The Failure of a Maximum JUSTICE/LEGAL Security Prison . Write for complete list of publications and addresses of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) state programs. Address: 125 Broad Street New York, NY 10004 Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) Phone: (212) 549-2500 Contact: Dan Macallair Website: www.aclu.org Address: 54 Dore Street Services: See the listing of state affiliates for San Francisco, CA 94103 services available in your area. Phone: (415) 621-5661; (415) 621-5466 fax E-mail: [email protected] ACLU National Prison Project Website: www.cjcj.org Address: 915 15th Street, N.W., 7th Floor Services: Offer Alternative Sentencing Washington, DC 20005 Program (ASP) reports, which are Phone: (202) 393-4930; (202) 393-4931 fax written proposals that CJCJ presents E-mail: [email protected] to courts, parole boards, or other Website: www.aclu.org/prisons agencies that control juvenile and Services: Handle class action suits involving adult sentencing. A proposal is prison conditions and related issues developed in conjunction with the in state and federal institutions. defendant and his/her attorney. It Litigation is usually limited to cases usually includes a social history, involving major class actions analysis of the instant offense, and a challenging prison conditions or sentence recommendation. The otherwise of national significance. sentence recommendation generally Also provide advice and materials to includes a rationale based on individuals or organizations involved sentencing rules and several in prison issues. Do not handle sentencing options, such as cases on behalf of individual treatment, community service, prisoners (except sexual assault restitution, and a volunteer cases) or post-conviction cases. community advocate. CJCJ is Several publications are available available to make adjustments in the from the NPP, including the biannual elements of a plan should the client Journal - $2 a year for prisoners and be unable to meet any of the $30 a year for non-prisoners. See conditions. Prisoners and persons Publications section for a complete facing who are list. interested in ASP services should have their attorneys contact Dan American Friends Service Committee Macallair. Also publish a wide variety Contact: Tonya McClary of articles and booklets on prison Address: 1501 Cherry Street conditions, the criminal-justice Philadelphia, PA 19102 system, and other issues. See Phone: (215) 241-7000; (215) 241-7275 fax Publications section for a complete E-mail: [email protected] list. Website: www.afsc.org Services: National and local criminal-justice Centurion Ministries programs focus on advocacy, Address: 221 Witherspoon Street education, policy development and Princeton, NJ 08542 organizing. Publish analysis and Services: Only handles cases in which a action reports (free to prisoners), has been sentenced to including: The Fortress Economy: either death or life in prison without The Economic Role of the U.S. parole, cases in which a prisoner has

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exhausted most or all appeals, and general counseling, HIV-AIDS cases in which a prisoner is claiming assistance and court advocacy. absolute innocence. No self-defense Publishes Fortune News , free to or accidental-death cases. prisoners upon request.

Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants The Innocence Project (CURE) Address: 100 Fifth Avenue, 3 rd Floor Contact: Charlie Sullivan New York, NY 10011 Address: P.O. Box 2310 Phone: (212) 364-5340 Washington, DC 20013 Services: Case submissions are only handled Phone: (202) 789-2126 by mail. This chapter only handles Website: www.curenational.org cases in which physical or biological Services: Organize prisoners, their families evidence could prove innocence. and other concerned citizens to Innocence Projects provide achieve reforms in the criminal- representation and/or investigative justice system. CURE has a assistance to prison inmates who presence in 40 states. See listings claim to be innocent of the for for individual states in this directory which they were convicted. There is or write for complete listing of now at least one Innocence Project addresses of state chapters. Does serving each state except Hawaii, not handle individual cases. North Dakota and South Dakota. Most of these innocence projects are Families Against Mandatory Minimums new and overwhelmed with (FAMM) applications, so waiting time between Contact: Julie Stewart application and acceptance is long. Address: 1612 K Street, N.W. - #700 Wrongfully convicted persons should Washington, DC 20006 not be dissuaded from applying to Phone: (202) 822-6700; (202) 822-6704 fax Innocence Projects because of this, E-mail: [email protected] but should have realistic Website: www.FAMM.org expectations regarding acceptance Services: Work to change mandatory and time lags. Please go to the sentencing laws. Provide information following website for information about the laws and how to change about other affiliates: them. FAMM’s local chapters hold http://www.innocenceproject.org/Con rallies, meet with the media, give tent/313.php. speeches, and distribute information so a wider audience will understand Law Offices of Alan Ellis, California Office the need for alternatives to Contact: Alan Ellis incarceration and fair . Address: 495 Miller Avenue - #201 Offers a newsletter, FAMM-gram . Mill Valley, CA 94941 Contributions accepted. Phone: (415) 380-2550; (415) 380-2555 fax E-mail: [email protected] Fortune Society Website: www.alanellis.com Contact: Sherri Goldstein Services: Provide post-conviction Address: 53 W. 23rd Street representation of federal criminal New York, NY 10010 defendants including plea Phone: (212) 691-7554 x501; (212) 633- negotiations, sentencing, Rule 35 6845 fax motions, appeals, § 2241 and § 2255 E-Mail: [email protected] habeas corpus petitions and prison Website: www.fortunesociety.org and parole matters. Publish The Services: Ex-offender self-help program. Guidebook , available Provide educational programs,

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Law Offices of Alan Ellis, Pennsylvania Office Services: Educational and resource program, Contact: Peter Goldberger or James H. providing a variety of materials on Feldman subjects such as , Address: 50 Rittenhouse Place alternatives to prison, and the death Ardmore, PA 19003 penalty. Several publications are Phone: (610) 658-2255, (610) 649-8200 available free to prisoners and their E-mail: [email protected] families; contact them for a resource Website: www.alanellis.com list. Also provides consultation and Services: Provide post-conviction information to individuals and groups representation of federal criminal involved in victim-offender defendants including plea reconciliation programs (VORPs). negotiations, sentencing, Rule 35 motions, petitions under 28 U.S.C. § National Association for the Advancement of 2255, appeals, and Supreme Court Colored People petitions. Occasionally publish National Headquarters Federal Sentencing and Address: 4805 Mt. Hope Drive Postconviction News , free for federal Baltimore, MD 21215 prisoners. Phone: (800) NAACP-98; (410) 580-5777 (local) Law Office of Marcia G. Shein Website: www.naacp.org Contact: Marcia G. Shein Services: Eliminate disparate treatment in all Address: 2392 N. Decatur Road aspects of law enforcement and Decatur, GA 30033 criminal-justice systems. Eliminate Phone: (404) 633-3797; (404) 633-7980 fax capricious racial profiling practices. Website: www.msheinlaw.com Ensure fair and equitable trials and Services: Handle federal criminal law pre- and sentences. Ensure felony re-entry. post-conviction cases. Fees may be Promote a moratorium on the death charged for services. Provide penalty. We have offices in all 50 objective background reports for states, including Washington, DC. attorneys; interpretation of We also have offices in Germany, psychological information and related Italy, Japan and Korea. Please see reports. Handle initial parole our website to get information for hearings; regional and national your local office. appeals; pre- and post-custody consultation and early termination of National Center on Institutions and probation and parole. All services are Alternatives offered for pro se litigants. Research Address: 7222 Ambassador Road and development issues; sentencing Baltimore, MD 21244 mitigation; federal and supreme court Phone: (410) 265-1490; (410) 597-9656 fax appeals; habeas corpus § 2255; INS E-mail: [email protected] petitions to stay; deportation and Website: www.ncianet.org prison transfers; clemency petitions. Services: Offer private pre-sentence Distribute the Federal Criminal Law investigative services; technical News . assistance to jurisdictions regarding , as well as jail Mennonite Central Committee, U.S. Office on suicide prevention. Conduct research Justice and Peacebuilding on criminal-justice issues. Contact: Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz Address: 21 S. 12th Street, P.O. Box 500 National Commission on Correctional Health Akron, PA 17501 Care Phone: (717) 859-1151 or (888) 563-4676 Contact: Cherie Minor Website: http://mcc.org/us/peacebuilding Address: 1145 W. Diversey Parkway

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Chicago, IL 60614 Contact: Tammy Kennedy Phone: (773) 880-1460; (773) 880-2424 fax Address: P.O. Box 340 Website: www.ncchc.org Brandon, VT 05733 Services: Publish standards for health services Phone: (802) 247-3132; (802) 247-4233 fax for jails, prisons and juvenile- E-mail: [email protected] confinement facilities. Website: www.safersociety.org Serve as an accreditation body; Services: Provide sexual-abuse prevention and develop programs for training treatment publications and operate a correctional and health-care national referral line for those personnel; provide technical seeking treatment providers for assistance to facilities; develop and sexually offending behaviors. This distribute publications and uniform program is free and confidential, and documentation; conduct annual open to all: offenders, family and national conference on correctional friends of offenders, social workers, health care and other programs; and court and corrections personnel and conduct research on selected therapists. Also answer general aspects of correctional health care. resource requests from prisoners, Publish a quarterly newspaper, such as, providing contact CorrectCare , which is available free information on self-help groups, and to prison libraries but cannot be sent providing worksheets on general free to individual prisoners. Write for information regarding sexual abuse, a complete list of publications. etc.

Partnership for Safety and Justice The Sentencing Project Contact: Kathleen Pequeno or Brigette Sarabi Contact: Marc Mauer Address: P.O. Box 40085 Address: 514 Tenth Street, N.W. - #1000 Portland, OR 97240 Washington, DC 20004 Phone: (503) 335-8449; (503) 232-1922 fax Phone: (202) 628-0871; (202) 628-1091 fax Website: www.safetyandjustice.org E-mail: [email protected] Services: Partnership for Safety and Justice Website: www.sentencingproject.org unites people convicted of , Services: Provide technical assistance to survivors of crime, and the families develop alternative sentencing of both to advance approaches that programs and conduct research on redirect policies away from an over- criminal-justice issues. No direct reliance on incarceration to effective services to prisoners. strategies that reduce violence and increase safety. Southern Poverty Law Center Contact: Rhonda Brownstein Prisoners’ Rights Research Project Address: 400 Washington Avenue Address: University of Illinois College of Law Montgomery, AL 36104 332 Law Building, m/c 594 Phone: (334) 956-8200 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue Website: www.splcenter.org Champaign, IL 61820 Services: Handle class action civil-rights suits Phone: (217) 333-4205; (217) 244-1478 fax involving prison conditions, access to Services: Students provide back-up legal health care, education, voting rights, research assistance for prisoners and hate crimes. nationwide. Cannot give advice or represent prisoners and can answer Stop Prisoner Rape only specific questions. Will copy no Address: 3325 Wilshire Boulevard - #340 more than 10 pages. Los Angeles, CA 90010 Phone: (213) 384-1400; (213) 384-1411 fax Safer Society Foundation E-mail: [email protected]

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Website: www.spr.org initiate civil litigation to remedy a Services: Seek to end sexual violence against pattern or practice of discrimination men, women, and minors in all forms by federally funded law-enforcement of detention. SPR’s website provides agencies based on race and other information for survivors, a legal characteristics. section with legislation and case law, appeals for action, a comprehensive AIDS/HEPATITIS bibliography, and links to articles,

reports, and other resources. AIDS Education Project of the National Prison Prisoners wishing to communicate Project with SPR should address their Contact: Jackie Walker correspondence to Ms. Melissa Address: 915 15th Street, N.W., 7th Floor Rothstein, Esq. Washington, DC 20005

Phone: (202) 393-4930; (202) 393-4931 fax U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights E-mail: [email protected] Division, Special Litigation Section Services: Serve as a clearinghouse for Address: Special Litigation Section information on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, U.S. Department of Justice and STDs in prisons and jails. Civil Rights Division Provide assistance to 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. HIV/AIDS/Hepatitis peer-education Washington, DC 20530 groups, advocacy on individual Phone: (202) 514-6255 or (877) 218-5228; cases, legal information, and (202) 514-0212 fax referrals. Publish Play It Safer —free Website: www.usdoj.gov/crt/split single copies and paid bulk orders Services: Enforce the Civil Rights of available. See Publications section Institutionalized Persons Act for more information. (CRIPA), which authorizes the

Attorney General to conduct CDC National Prevention Information Network investigations and initiate litigation (National AIDS Clearinghouse) relating to conditions of confinement Address: P.O. Box 6003 in state or locally operated Rockville, MD 20849-6003 institutions. Investigate facilities to Phone: (800) 458-5231 (toll-free); determine whether there is a pattern (404) 679-3860 international; (888) or practice of violations of residents’ 282-7681 fax federal rights. Maintain enforcement E-mail: [email protected] responsibility for Title III of the Civil Website: www.cdcnpin.org Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits Services: The Center for Disease Control’s racial discrimination in public NPIN develops, identifies, and facilities. Enforce the portion of the collects information on the Religious Land Use and prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, Institutionalized Persons Act sexually transmitted diseases, and (RLUIPA) that protects tuberculosis and disseminates this institutionalized individuals’ right to information to the CDC, national the free exercise of their religion. prevention hotlines, state and local Also, enforce provisions of two health departments, grassroots different federal statutes relating to community groups, and health law-enforcement misconduct: the professionals. These groups, in turn, police misconduct provision of the use NPIN materials to educate Violent Crime Control and Law individuals at risk for these diseases Enforcement Act of 1994, and the about the critical role that Safe Streets Act of 1968, which environment and behavior play in authorize the Attorney General to

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disease prevention. A core feature of living with and at risk for HIV/AIDS, the NPIN is comprehensive prison health-care providers and databases housing up-to-date community-based HIV/AIDS service information on community resources personnel. Provide technical and services, educational materials, assistance to community groups funding opportunities, and news participating in the CDC/HRSA summaries from the popular press Corrections Demonstration Project. and scientific and medical journals. The demonstration project aims to Other services provided include a reduce recidivism and ensure toll-free 800 number; CDC-approved continuity of care for HIV+ ex- publications such as resource guides offenders by connecting HIV+ and prevention brochures; a website prisoners with community HIV/AIDS featuring searchable databases and services three to six months before full-text publications; resource they are released. centers that offer onsite technical assistance and training; and an BOOK PROGRAMS/PEN PALS HIV/AIDS resource service designed

specifically for businesses. Books to Prisoners Address: c/o Left Bank Books CDC National STD/HIV Hotline 92 Pike Street, Box A Phone: (800) 232-4636; (888) 232-6348 TTY Seattle, WA 98101 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (206) 442-2013 (voicemail) Website: www.cdc.gov/std E-mail: [email protected] Services: Call for information about STDs and Website: www.bookstoprisoners.net referrals to STD clinics. Services: Provide free books to prisoners in all

states except California. Books Hepatitis C (HCV) Prison Support Project cannot be sent to prisons that only Contact: Phyllis Beck allow new books. BTP believes that Address: P.O. Box 41803 books are tools for learning and Eugene, OR 97404 opening minds to new ideas and Phone: (541) 607-5725; (541) 607-5684 fax possibilities. Prisoners should send E-mail: [email protected] specific requests (by title, author, Website: www.hcvinprison.org topic or genre) and allow several Services: Educate prisoners and advocate for months’ reply time. better testing, diagnosis, and

prevention of Hepatitis and HIV/HCV co-infection. Distribute bimonthly Prison Book Program newsletter and Hepatitis C, HIV/HCV Address: c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore co-infection packets free to 1306 Hancock Street - #100 prisoners. Quincy, MA 02169 Phone: (617) 423-3298 E-mail: [email protected] National Minority AIDS Council Website: www.prisonbookprogram.org Address: Prison Initiative Note: Requests for books are accepted by 1931 13th Street, N.W. mail only. Please use phone number Washington, DC 20009 only for book donations, financial Phone: (202) 483-6622, x333; (202) 483- contributions, or other information. 1135 fax Services: Dedicated to promoting literacy and E-mail: [email protected] education in the prison population Website: www.nmac.org nationwide. Provide free books to all Services: Develop and disseminate HIV/AIDS prisoners. Prisoners can request education and training interventions specific titles or books on general for target groups, including prisoners

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topics, including politics, law, AIDS, correctional facilities; and to feminism, economics, and history. establish scholarship funds for tuition Also supply academic texts and and textbooks for inmates engaged instructional materials, as well as in courses or independent study publications in Spanish. Orders take while in prison. All donations are tax three months to process. deductible.

Prison Library Project WriteAPrisoner.com Address: 915 West Foothill Boulevard - #128 Address: P.O. Box 10 Claremont, CA 91711 Edgewater, FL 32132 Services: Provide books and cassette tapes to Phone: (386) 427-5857 individual prisoners, study groups, E-mail: general- prison libraries and prison chaplains [email protected] free of charge. Also publish Ways Website: www.writeaprisoner.com and Means: A Resource List for Services: Prison pen pal organization providing Inmates . Personal and Legal ads to inmates. We also offer a free resume service Prison Pen Pals to inmates being released within the Address: P.O. Box 120074 year; a program called “Back to Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 Work”; and the Children Impacted by Services: We list all names of prisoners who Crime Scholarship Fund. Our goal is write to us without descriptions. We to reduce recidivism through do not match pen pals, but rather the correspondence, education, lists of prisoner names are employment, resources, and distributed to various individuals, prevention. ministries, etc., and around the country. We also send names to half WriteAPrisoner.com’s Books Behind Bars a dozen websites Address: P.O. Box 10 Edgewater, FL 32132 Prisoners’ Literature Project Phone: (386) 427-5857 Address: c/o Bound Together Book Store E-mail: general- 1369 Haight Street [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94117 Website: www.writeaprisoner.com/books- Services: Provide prisoners with free books, behind-bars magazines and pamphlets. No books Services: Established to help prison teachers, sent to Texas. prison librarians, and prison chaplains obtain books and other Prisoners’ Reading Encouragement Project educational materials they need Contact: Annette Johnson through public donations. Our Address: 145 Nassau Street - #3D mission is to improve the overall New York, NY 10038 effectiveness of the correctional Phone: (212) 349-6741 system by bridging the gap between E-mail: [email protected] the public and these sometimes Website: www.prisonreader.org underfunded yet vitally important Services: A support organization to prison educational departments. libraries and educational programs. Our mission is threefold: to enhance DEATH PENALTY literacy and educational opportunities for inmates by soliciting and making ACLU Capital Punishment Project gifts to prison libraries; to educate Address: 201 West Main Street - #402 the public about the need for libraries Durham, NC 27701 and educational programming within

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Phone: 919-682-5659; 919-682-5961 fax Services: Our goal is to end punitive drug Website: www.aclu.org/capital policies that cause the widespread Services: The ACLU’s Capital Punishment violation of constitutional and human Project works toward the abolition of rights, as well as unprecedented the death penalty. levels of incarceration.

Amnesty International, USA th FAMILIES/VISITATION Address: 5 Penn Plaza - 16 Floor New York, NY 10001 The Center for Children of Incarcerated Phone: (212) 807-8400; (212) 627-1451 fax Parents Website: www.amnestyusa.org Contact: Denise Johnston Services: Work to abolish the death penalty Address: P.O. Box 41-286 and publish death-penalty reports, Eagle Rock, CA 90041 available online. Phone: (626) 449-2470; (626) 449-9001 fax

E-mail: [email protected] National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty th Website: www.e-ccip.org Address: 1705 DeSales Street, N.W., 5 Floor Services: Provide clearinghouse of materials Washington, DC 20036 for prisoners and their families; a Phone: (202) 331-4090; (202) 331-4099 fax catalog is available by mail. Host E-mail: [email protected] correspondence parent education Website: www.ncadp.org course for prisoners and conduct Services: Provide information and advocacy child-custody advocacy. against the death penalty. Do not provide legal assistance. Publish a Family & Corrections Network newsletter, LIFELINES , six times a Address: 93 Old York Road, Suite 1 - #510 year for members. Membership, Jenkintown, PA 19046 $25/year. Also publish the Abolitionist Phone: (215) 576-1110; (215) 576-1815 fax Directory , which lists organizations E-mail: [email protected] working to end the death penalty. Website: www.fcnetwork.org Updated annually, $2/copy. Services: Offer information on children of prisoners, parenting programs for Southern Center for Human Rights prisoners, prison visiting, Address: 83 Poplar Street, N.W. incarcerated fathers and mothers, Atlanta, GA 30303-2122 hospitality programs, keeping in Phone: (404) 688-1202; (404) 688-9440 fax touch, returning to the community, E-mail: [email protected] the impact of the justice system on Website: www.schr.org families, and prison marriage. Services: Provide representation of persons Provide extensive website on facing the death penalty and families of offenders and the FCN assistance to attorneys in death- Report, FCN cannot mail out free penalty cases. publications, but agencies, counselors, friends and family may DRUG LAW REFORM download free materials from our website and distribute them to ACLU Foundation Drug Law Reform Project prisoners. FCN does not provide Contact: Graham Boyd legal assistance. Address: 1101 Pacific Avenue - #333 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Foreverfamily Phone: (831) 471-9000; (831) 471-9676 fax Address: 691 Garibaldi Street SW Website: www.aclu.org/drugpolicy Atlanta, GA 30310 Phone: (404) 223-1200; (404) 223-1010 fax

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E-mail: [email protected] Prisoner Visitation and Support (PVS) Website: www.foreverfam.org Contact: Eric Corson Services: Volunteers aid children of imprisoned Address: 1501 Cherry Street mothers by providing after-school Philadelphia, PA 19102 programs, summer camp, Phone: (215) 241-7117; (215) 241-7227 fax recreational activities, service E-mail: [email protected] projects, and trips to visit their Website: www.prisonervisitation.org mothers. Imprisoned mothers are Services: Provide visitation to prisoners at also provided with educational most federal and military prisons in materials, re-entry assistance and the U.S. The visitors provide psychological support. supportive services such as acting as nonjudgmental listeners, visiting National Coalition Against Domestic Violence once a month, and reaching out to Address: 1120 Lincoln Street - #1603 prisoners in a spirit of mutual Denver, CO 80203 respect, trust and acceptance. With Phone: (303) 839-1852; (303) 839-1681 a national network of visitors, PVS TTY; (303) 831-9251 fax maintains contact with prisoners who E-mail: [email protected] are transferred from prison to prison Website: www.ncadv.org and who are in . Services: NCADV is comprised of people Do not visit state prisons. dealing with the concerns of battered women and their families. We Tele-Net, Inc. represent both rural and urban Phone: 1-888-925-7800 areas. Our programs support and Website: www.telenetinc.net involve battered women of all racial, Services: Dedicated to reducing the cost of social, religious and economic collect calls placed by inmates from groups, ages and lifestyles. We correctional facilities. oppose the use of violence as a means of control over others and Volunteers of America support equality in relationships and Address: 1660 Duke Street the concept of helping women Alexandria, VA 22314 assume power over their own lives. Phone: (800) 899-0089 or (703) 341-5000 We strive toward becoming (local); (703) 341-7000 fax independent, community-based Website: www.volunteersofamerica.org groups in which women make major Services: Dedicated to helping those in need policy and program decisions. We rebuild their lives and reach their full have over 50 offices nationwide. potential through providing Please see our website for a emergency services and resources complete list and contact information. to ex-offenders and their families. Services include employment National Reproductive Freedom Project of the training, technical assistance, bus ACLU tokens, clothing, tools, food, etc. Address: 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor Please visit the website to find one of New York, NY 10004-2400 their 40 offices throughout the Phone: (212) 549-2633; (212) 549-2652 fax country. Website: www.aclu.org/reproductiverights Services: Protects everyone’s right to make GAYS/LESBIANS informed decisions free from

government interference about ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and whether and when to become a AIDS Project parent. Address: 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor

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New York, NY 10004-2400 Address: 3543 18th Street, Box 30 Phone: (212) 549-2627 San Francisco, CA 94110 Website: www.aclu.org/getequal Services: Send resource information to women Services: The combined Project staff members prisoners. Publish Out of Time are experts in constitutional law and newsletter 5 times a year, free to all civil rights, specializing in sexual prisoners. We are volunteer-run. orientation, gender identity, and HIV. Services are limited, but include Fights discrimination and moves activism and advocacy for women public opinion on LGBT rights political prisoners. through the courts, legislatures and public education. Brings impact PFLAG (Parents Family and Friends of lawsuits in state and federal courts Lesbians and Gays) throughout the country; cases Address: 1726 M Street, N.W. - #400 designed to have a significant effect Washington, DC 20036 on the lives of LGBT people and Phone: (202) 467-8180; (202) 467-8194 fax those with HIV/AIDS. In coalition with E-mail: [email protected] other civil-rights groups, we also Website: www.pflag.org lobby in Congress and support Services: In addition to providing support to grassroots advocacy from local families and friends of GLBT people, school boards to state legislatures. PFLAG members are advocates for legislation that promotes equality for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders GLBT people, as well as for (GLAD) educational efforts to do the same. Contact: Intake Staff We also advocate for GLBT quality Address: 30 Winter Street - #800 through civil-rights legislation and Boston, MA 02108 legal protections. We have chapters Phone: (617) 426-1350 or (800) 455-GLAD; located all over the U.S. Please see (617) 426-3594 fax our website to find your local office. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.glad.org IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS Services: Impact litigation on gay, lesbian,

bisexual, transgender and HIV- National Immigrants Rights Project of the related civil-rights and discrimination issues within New . No direct ACLU representation. Legal information line Address: 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor in English and Spanish, Monday New York, NY 10004-2400 through Friday, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Phone: (212) 5490-2660; (212) 549-2654 fax Address: 405 14th Street - #300 Oakland, CA 94612 Gay and Lesbian Prisoner Project Phone: (510) 625-2010; (510) 622-0050 fax Address: P.O. Box 1481 Services: Works to defend the civil and Boston, MA 02117 constitutional rights of immigrants Services: Provide limited pen pal service for through a comprehensive program of G/L/B/T prisoners and send resource impact litigation and public information and articles related to education. The IRP files G/L/B/T prisoner issues. Publish Gay constitutional and class action Community News 3 or 4 times a lawsuits protecting the historic year, free to lesbian and gay guarantee to judicial review, prisoners. Volunteer-run, services enforcing fair-employment practices, are limited. and maintaining constitutional

safeguards against detention Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners

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practices and biased asylum adjudication. Aleph Institute Contact: Rabbi Menachem Katz JUVENILES Address: P.O. Box 547127 Surfside, FL 33154

Phone: (305) 864-5553; (305) 864-5675 fax Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) E-mail: [email protected] Address: 54 Dore Street Website: www.aleph-institute.org San Francisco, CA 94103 Services: Offers Jewish religious instruction to Phone: (415) 621-5661; (415) 621-5466 fax prisoners; religious articles; Website: www.cjcj.org correspondence courses; Services: Promote balanced and humane counseling; religious-freedom criminal-justice policies that reduce advocacy. Provide personal visits to incarceration and promote long-term prisoners by Rabbis and rabbinical public safety for juveniles, through students, family support groups. the development of model programs, Maintain network of local contacts in technical assistance, research/policy all states. Weekly Torah literature is analysis, and public education. available free and quarterly

newsletter, The National Liberator , is Youth Law Center also available. Send requests in Address: 200 Pine Street - #300 writing to Rabbi Katz. San Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: (415) 543-3379; (415) 956-9022 fax Forgiven Ministry, Inc. E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Scottie Barnes Website: www.ylc.org Address: P.O. Box 117 Services: Handle major institutional and class Taylorsville, NC 28681 action cases on behalf of juveniles Phone: (828) 632-6424 or (866) 900-4463 only. Cannot assist individuals. E-mail: [email protected] Issues include conditions of Website: www.forgivenministry.org confinement, special education up to Services: Advocacy organization that reaches age 22 and treatment of juveniles in out to the unsaved and unlovable adult correctional facilities with the forgiveness and love of

Jesus Christ through the power of MENTAL HEALTH the Holy Spirit.

National GAINS Center/TAPA Center for Jail International Prison Ministry Diversion Contact: Bob Hoekstra Address: 345 Delaware Avenue Address: P.O. Box 2868 Delmar, New York 12054 Costa Mesa, CA 92628-2868 Phone: (800) 311-4246; (518) 439-7612 fax Phone: (714) 972-0288; (800) 527-1212 (toll- Website: www.gainscenter.samhsa.gov free); (714) 972-0557 fax Services: Collect and disseminate information Services: Help other jail and prison ministries about mental health and substance obtain Bibles, Bible Study books, abuse services for incarcerated Lifechanging books and greeting people with mental disorders. cards at affordable, reduced prices. Supports and engages in creative Provide free Bibles, Bible Study and initiatives and collaboration with Lifechanging books to prisoners. public and private organizations in an advisory capacity. Mennonite Central Committee, US Contact: Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz RELIGIOUS Address: 21 S. 12th Street, P.O. Box 500 Akron, PA 17501-0500

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Phone: (717) 859-1151; (717) 859-3875 fax Address: P.O. Box 65762 Website: www.mcc.org Washington, D.C. 20035 Services: Provide information on issues such Phone: (202) 265-8305; (202) 328-0063 (fax) as ministry to victims and offenders, E-mail: [email protected] alternatives to prison, victim-offender Website: www.nvlsp.org reconciliation and restorative justice. Services: Provide information on Agent Orange Coordinate presentations, workshops benefit issues for Vietnam veterans and written materials on principles and referrals for veteran-law issues and application of restorative justice. only. Self-help guides on Agent Provide consultation and information Orange, Gulf War, and VA Claims: through VORP, and develop $7.50 for one and $5.50 for each educational and training materials on additional. Publish the Veterans a variety of issues. Benefits Manual, a comprehensive guide to veterans’ law. The Veterans Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief of Advocate , a newsletter of veterans the ACLU law and advocacy ($50/year for Contact: Jeremy Gunn incarcerated veterans: $80/year for Address: 915 15th Street, N.W., 2nd Floor lawyers, government); and Manual Washington, DC 20005 on Military Discharge Upgrading , Phone: (202) 675-2330; (202) 546-0738 fax $95. Correspondence training course Website: www.aclu.org/religion for veterans’ advocates, $75 for Services: To preserve our freedom of speech prisoners. Please call to verify all and ensure that religious liberty is prices. Prices are subject to change. protected by keeping the government out of religion. VOTING RIGHTS

TECHNOLOGY ACLU Voting Rights Project Contact: Nancy Abudu National Technology and Liberty Program of Address: 2600 Marquis One Tower the ACLU 245 Peachtree Center Avenue, NE Address: 915 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor Atlanta, GA 30303-1227 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: (404) 523-2721; (404) 653-0331 fax Phone: (202) 715-0817; (202) 546-0738 fax E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.aclu.org/privacy Website: www.votingrights.org Services: The tremendous explosion in Services: Works to protect the gains in political surveillance-enabling technologies, participation won by minorities since combined with the ongoing passage of the 1965 Voting Rights weakening in legal restraints that Act, including felony disenfranchise- protect our privacy, have us drifting ment. The Project encourages the toward a surveillance society. The reporting of discriminatory voting ACLU’s Technology and Liberty practices by calling the Voting Project fights this trend and works to Section of the U.S. Department of preserve the American tradition that Justice Civil Rights Division at (800) the government not track individuals 253-3931. or violate privacy unless it has evidence of wrongdoing. WOMEN

VETERANS/MILITARY ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project Address: 125 Broad Street, 17th Floor National Veterans Legal Services Program New York, NY 10004 Contact: Intake Section Phone: (212) 549-2633; 549-2652 fax

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E-mail: [email protected] activism and advocacy for women Website: www.aclu.org/reproductiverights political prisoners. Services: The Project handles issues related to reproductive rights and abortion. Contacts should first be made through state ACLU affiliates.

ACLU National Women’s Rights Project Contact: Claudia Flores Address: 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10004 Phone: (212) 549-2665; (212) 549-2580 fax Website: www.aclu.org/womensrights Services: Through litigation, community outreach, advocacy and public education, WRP empowers poor women, women of color, and immigrant women who have been victimized by gender bias and face pervasive barriers to equality.

National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women Contact: Sue Osthoff Address: 125 South 9th Street - #302 Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: (215) 351-0010 or (800) 903-0111 x3; (215) 351-0779 fax Website: www.ncdbw.org Services: Provide technical assistance to women charged with crimes and their defense teams. The organization assists advocates for women who have injured or killed their batterers in self-defense; battered women who have been coerced into criminal activity; and women charged with “failing to protect” their children from the batterers’ violence. Accepts collect calls from women in prison.

Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners Address: 3543 18th Street, Box 30 San Francisco, CA 94110 Services: Send resource information to women prisoners. Publish Out of Time newsletter 5 times a year, free to all prisoners. We are volunteer-run. Services are limited, but include

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ALABAMA Sponsors the Alabama CURE chapter. Aid to Inmate Mothers

Contact: Carol Potok Address: P.O. Box 986 ACLU of Alabama Montgomery, AL 36101-0986 Contact: Lori Raphan, Staff Attorney Phone: (334) 262-2245; (800) 679-0246; Address: 207 Montgomery Street - #910 (334) 262-2296 fax Montgomery, AL 36104 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (334) 262-0304; (334) 269-5666 fax Website: www.inmatemoms.org E-mail: [email protected] Services: Transitional program for mothers Website: www.aclualabama.org who are between 18 and 24 months Services: Prison conditions; limited direct of their release dates. Offer referrals. educational programs for women prisoners, release plans, and Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama follow-up case work for one year Address: 122 Commerce Street after release. Arrange monthly Montgomery, AL 36104 visitation for mothers who do not Phone: (334) 269-1803; 334-269-1806 fax already have transportation for their E-mail: [email protected] children. Provide outreach to Website: www.eji.org children while their mothers are Services: Represent death-row prisoners in incarcerated. direct appeals to the appellate courts in Alabama and in post- Alabama CURE conviction challenges in state and Contact: Rosemary Collins federal courts. Address: P.O. Box 190504 Birmingham, AL 35219-0504 Montgomery AIDS Outreach Phone: (205) 481-3781; (800) 665-3602; Contact: Lucero Sitz (205) 481-3991 fax Address: 820 W. South Boulevard E-mail: [email protected] Montgomery, AL 36105 Services: Prison-reform legislative Phone: (334) 280-3388; (800) 510-4704; organization interested in improving (334) 280-3315 fax the Alabama and federal criminal- E-mail: [email protected] justice systems. Website: www.maoi.org Services: Support group and discharge Alabama Prison Project planning services to HIV+ female Contact: Lucia Penland prisoners at Julia Tutwiler Prison in Address: 619 N. Bridge Street Wetumpka. HIV-prevention Wetumpka, AL 36092 education classes to pre-release Phone: (334) 264-7416; (334) 567-7845 fax inmates. E-mail: [email protected] Services: Provides no legal services. Organizes advocacy community on ALASKA anti-death-penalty issues and prison conditions. Visits death-row ACLU of Alaska prisoners and offer family support. Contact: Jason Barndeis, Staff Attorney Investigates for defense in Address: P.O. Box 201844 sentencing phase of capital trials Anchorage, AK 99520-1844 and tracks death-row convictions. Phone: (907) 276-2258; (907) 258-0288 fax Offers a program for families of E-mail: [email protected] death-row prisoners. Publishes the Website: www.akclu.org Alabama Prison Project newsletter. Services: Handle litigation on constitutional issues on a limited basis.

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E-mail: [email protected] Alaska Human Rights Commission Services: Provide free civil (non-criminal) legal Address: 800 A Street - #204 assistance to low-income Alaskans. Anchorage, AK 99501-3669 Advocates reducing the legal Phone: (907) 274-4692; Toll-Free: (800) consequences of poverty. We are 478-4692 (in-state only) sorry, but we cannot respond to Website: http://gov.state.ak.us/aschr requests for legal assistance made Services: Investigate discrimination and other by e-mail. Any information that you human-rights abuses statewide. send to us by e-mail is not confidential and is not protected by Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association the attorney/client privilege. Referrals Address: 1057 West Fireweed Lane - #102 will be given if possible. Anchorage, AK 99503 Phone: (907) 263-2050, Hotline: (800) 478- Alaska Legal Services Corporation – Bethel AIDS, Syringes: (907) 276-1400; Address: P.O. Box 248 (907) 263-2051 fax Bethel, AK 99559-0248 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (907) 543-2237; (800) 478-2230; Website: www.alaskanaids.org (907) 543-5537 fax Services: Offer case management, referrals E-mail: [email protected] and education. Provide emotional Website: www.alaskalawhelp.org support services to people with AIDS/HIV infection and their Alaska Legal Services Corporation – families; support groups; 24-hour Dillingham helpline; buddy volunteer program; Address: P.O. Box 176 and advocacy and practical Dillingham, AK 99576 support. Publish free triannual Phone: (907) 842-1452; (888) 391-1475; newsletter. (907) 842-1430 fax E-mail: [email protected] Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association – Website: www.alaskalawhelp.org Juneau Address: P.O. Box 21481 Alaska Legal Services Corporation – Fairbanks Juneau, AK 99802 Address: 1648 Cushman - #300 Phone: (907) 586-6089; (888) 660-AIDS; Fairbanks, AK 99701-6202 (907) 586-1089 fax Phone: (907) 452-5181; (800) 478-5401; E-mail: [email protected] (907) 456-6359 fax Website: www.alaskanaids.org E-mail: [email protected] Services: Offer case management, referrals Website: www.alaskalawhelp.org and education. Provide emotional support services to people with Alaska Legal Services Corporation – Juneau AIDS/HIV infection and their Address: 419 6th Street - #322 families; support groups; 24-hour Juneau, AK 99801-1096 helpline; buddy volunteer program; Phone: (907) 586-6425; (800) 789-6426; and advocacy and practical (907) 456-6359 fax support. Publish free tri-annual E-mail: [email protected] newsletter. Website: www.alaskalawhelp.org

Alaska Legal Services Corporation – Alaska Legal Services Corporation—Ketchikan Anchorage Address: 306 Main Street - #218 Address: 1016 W. 4th Avenue - #200 Ketchikan, AK 99901-6483 Anchorage, AK 99501 Phone: (907) 225-6420; (907) 225-6896 fax Phone: (907) 272-9431; (888) 478-2572; E-mail: [email protected] (907) 279-7417 fax Website: www.alaskalawhelp.org

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Arizona. Publish periodic newsletter; Alaska Legal Services Corporation—Kotzebue membership is $3/year for prisoners, Address: P.O. Box 526 $20/year non-prisoners. Kotzebue, AK 99901-6483 Phone: (907) 225-6420; (907) 225-6896 fax Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Danny Blake Website: www.alaskalawhelp.org Address: 375 S. Euclid Avenue Tucson, AZ 85719 Phone: (520) 628-7223; (800) 771-9054; ARIZONA (520) 628-7222 fax E-mail: [email protected] ACLU of Arizona Website: www.saaf.org Contact: Alessandra Soler Meetze Services: Provides limited legal assistance for Address: P.O. Box 17148 guardianship arrangements. Phoenix, AZ 85011-0148 Referrals are provided to assist with Phone: (602) 650-1967; (602) 650-1376 fax wills, power of attorney, and other E-mail: [email protected] legal matters. Website: www.acluaz.org

Services: Prison conditions (limited to state

prisons); limited direct referrals; general community education. ARKANSAS ACLU of Arkansas American Friends Service Committee Contact: Rita Sklar Address: 103 N. Park Avenue Address: 904 West Second Street - #1 Tucson, AZ 85719 Little Rock, AR 72201 Phone: (520) 623-9141; (520) 623-5901 fax Phone: (501) 374-2660; (501) 374-2842 fax E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.acluarkansas.org Website: www.afsc.org/az Services: Prison conditions; county jail Services: Serve as a resource for prisoners, conditions/treatment referrals; ex-prisoners, and their family litigation; referrals to Compliance members to find information and Coordinator. resources to address their questions and needs, and a place to get Women’s Project involved in bringing their voices to Contact: Felicia Davidson the seats of power in Arizona. Address: 2224 Main Street Little Rock, AR 72206 Middle Ground , Inc. Phone: (501) 372-5113; (501) 372-0009 fax Contact: Donna Leone Hamm Website: www.womens-project.org Address: 139 East Encanto Drive Services: All services are provided only in Tempe, AZ 85281 Arkansas at the state women’s Phone: (480) 966-8116; (801) 409-8536 fax prison and community punishment E-mail: [email protected] center. They include a weekly Website: www.middlegroundprisonreform.org battered women’s support group; Services: Provide education/training programs; biweekly peer AIDS-education counseling; legislative advocacy for program; a child transportation prison reform; litigation on policies project; yearly caretakers’ retreat. and procedures affecting visitors; Provide through public speaking on criminal- and donations of books and periodicals social-justice issues; referrals to and support with job search for social-service agencies. Advocacy women parolees in Arkansas. and public education is performed on state and national levels; direct services are provided statewide in CALIFORNIA

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ACLU of Northern California Address: 1904 North Franklin Street - #507 Contact: Alan Schlosser Oakland, CA 94612 Address: 39 Drumm Street Phone: (510) 836-7222; (510) 836-7333 fax San Francisco, CA 94111 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (415) 621-2493; (415) 255-1478 Website: www.prisons.org Website: www.aclunc.org Services: Investigate conditions of confinement Services: Handle rare post-conviction matters; in California’s job-unit prisons at habeas corpus; prison conditions; Pelican Bay, Corcoran and Valley direct referrals. State Prison for Women. Seek to monitor and end the human-rights ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties violations in California’s Security Contact: David Blair-Loy Housing Unit facilities through Address: P.O. Box 87131 regular investigative visits, advocacy San Diego, CA 92138 and education. Publish a newsletter Phone: (619) 232-2131; (619) 232-0036 fax and various educational materials. E-mail: [email protected] Offer HIV/Hepatitis C education. Website: www.aclusandiego.org Services: Handle rare post-conviction matters; Catholic Charities of the East Bay Detention habeas corpus; prison conditions; Ministry (CCEB) direct referrals. Contact: Michael Radding Address: 433 Jefferson Street ACLU of Southern California Oakland, CA 94607 Contact: Mary Tiedeman Phone: (510) 768-3139; (510) 451-6998 fax Address: 1616 Beverly Boulevard E-mail: [email protected] Los Angeles, CA 90026 Services: Provide religious, pastoral services in Phone: (213) 977-9543; (213) 250-3919 fax the jails and juvenile halls of E-mail: [email protected] Alameda and Contra Costa Counties Website: www.aclu-sc.org and victim/offender mediation Services: L.A. County jail conditions; rare services. Also offer counseling and habeas corpus, post-conviction and emergency-assistance referrals. prison conditions; referrals. The Center for Children of Incarcerated California Coalition for Women Prisoners Parents Contact: Karen Shain Contact: Dolores Thomas Address: 1540 Market Street - #490 Address: P.O. Box 41-286 San Francisco, CA 94102 Eagle Rock, CA 90041 Phone: (415) 255-7036 x4; (415) 552-3150 Phone: (626) 449-2470; (626) 449-9001 fax fax E-mail: [email protected] Services: Raise public consciousness about Website: www.e-ccip.org the cruel and inhumane conditions Services: Therapeutic services for children of under which women in prison live criminal offenders and family- and advocate for positive change. reunification projects for prisoners Promote the leadership of and give and their children. voice to women prisoners and former prisoners. Publish newsletter, The Centerforce Fire Inside , available free to Address: 2955 Kerner Boulevard, 2nd Floor prisoners and by donation from San Rafael, CA 94901 others. Phone: (415) 456-9980; (415) 456-2146 fax Website: www.centerforce.org California Prison Focus Services: Centerforce is a private, non-profit Contact: Corey Weinstein California organization that Georgia Schreiber (HIV education) demonstrates concern for prison

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visitors through a network of Prison for children of incarcerated parents Visitor Hospitality Centers. A as well as limited crisis intervention Centerforce visitor center has been in the San Francisco Bay area. established at 20 state prisons, one Provide training for those interested federal prison and one California in working with children of Youth Authority facility, providing a incarcerated parents. variety of direct services such as transportation, drop-in childcare, Friends Outside information and referrals, shelter and Address: P.O. Box 4085 general hospitality. Also provide Stockton, CA 95204 health-education services to the Phone: (209) 955-0701; (209) 955-0735 fax incarcerated community through our E-mail: [email protected] Health Services Division. Write for a Website: www.friendsoutside.org complete list of centers and free Services: Headquarters for 12 Friends Outside Centerforce brochure. Chapters in California and Nevada that provide various social services Community Connection Resource Center to state and county prisoners and Contact: Dwight James their families. Pre-release and family Lillian Kellison (Incarcerated Youth services and a Parenting Program Offender Program) are provided to prisoners through Address: 4080 Centre Street case managers at all 33 California San Diego, CA 92103 State Prisons. Visitor centers are Phone: (619) 543-8500; (888) 800-2272 also operated at all California State Services: Provide services exclusively for Prisons. The Friends Outside prisoners and ex-offenders. Creative Conflict Resolution Program Comprehensive re-entry services are in jails, prisons, juvenile include: pre-release planning in local, programs, and in the community. state and federal correctional institutions; vocational assessment; Justice Now assistance with emergency needs Address: 1322 Webster Street - #210 such as shelter, food and clothing; Oakland, CA 94612 life-skills workshops and job Phone: (510) 839-7654; (510) 839-7615 fax development and placement. Also Website: www.jnow.org provide residential recovery/re-entry Services: Works with women prisoners and for women on parole, a local communities to build a safe comprehensive outpatient compassionate world without substance-abuse program, and an prisons. The first teaching law clinic ex-offender support group called in the country solely focused on the Freedom First. Contact us for needs of women prisoners. Interns addresses of other California offices. and staff provide legal services in the areas of need identified by women Families With a Future prisoners, including: compassionate Contact: Ida Robinson release; health-care access; defense Address: c/o LSPC of parental rights; sentencing 1540 Market St. - #490 mitigation; placement in community- San Francisco, CA 94102 based programs. Phone: (415) 255-7036 x307 E-mail: [email protected] Law Center for Families Services: Provide limited funding for visitation Address: 510 16th Street - #300 transportation for children of women Oakland, CA 94612 prisoners serving sentences of 10 or Phone: (510) 451-9261 more years. Offer support services E-mail: [email protected]

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Website: www.lcff.org Services: Provide individual representation, Penal Law Project advice, referrals and community Contact: Director education concerning: housing Address: 25 Main Street - #102 rights, family law/domestic violence, Chico, CA 95929 consumer law, economic Phone: (530) 898-4354; (530) 898-4911 fax support/public benefits, and E-mail: [email protected] language access. Website: www.aschico.com/?Page=252 Services: Habeas corpus; direct referrals; legal Legal Services for Prisoners with Children research. Provide legal information Contact: Karen Shain only, including information on record- Address: 1540 Market Street - #490 sealing and expungement; no legal San Francisco, CA 94102 counseling. Provide services to Phone: (415) 255-7036; (415) 552-3150 fax prisoners at the Susanville E-mail: [email protected] Correctional Facility and Northern Website: www.prisonerswithchildren.org California Women’s Facility in Services: Legal advocacy and litigation on Stockton. behalf of incarcerated parents, their children, families, attorneys and Prison Activist Resource Center other prisoners’ rights advocates. Address: P.O. Box 339 Currently focusing on test-case Berkeley, CA 94701 litigation, legislative reform, and Phone: (510) 893-4648; (510) 893-4607 fax administrative advocacy on behalf of Website: www.prisonactivist.org incarcerated parents and their Services: Support for prisoners and prison children, particularly in the areas of activists; public-education project. medical care, prenatal medical care for pregnant women prisoners, foster Prison Law Clinic care and termination of parental- Contact: Millard Murphy rights issues, and alternatives to Address: UC Davis School of Law incarceration. Does not currently One Shields Avenue have funding to provide individual Building TB30 legal assistance to prisoners, but Davis, CA 95616 does respond to hundreds of Phone: (530) 752-6942; (530) 752-0822 fax inquiries each month, and provides E-mail: [email protected] information and referrals to Services: Prison conditions; parole revocation; incarcerated parents. legal research. Services are provided to prisoners of California State Northern California Service League Prisons. Contact: Shirley Melnicoe Address: 28 Boardman Place Prison Law Office San Francisco, CA 94103 Contact: Donald Specter Phone: (415) 863-2323; (415) 863-1882 fax Address: General Delivery E-mail: [email protected] San Quentin, CA 94964 Website: www.norcalserviceleague.org Phone: (415) 457-9144; (415) 457-9151 fax Services: Offer counseling and referral Website: www.prisonlaw.com services for prisoners and their Services: Provide direct legal assistance for families. Re-entry assistance the range of problems encountered includes job-development by California prisoners, excluding assistance, in-jail substance-abuse attacks on criminal convictions. The treatment, and life-skills training. focus is on conditions of County and state prisoners/ex- confinement. Provide pamphlets offenders only.

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pertaining to various problems free of Contact: Catherine Hazouri charge to prisoners. Address: 400 Corona Street Denver, CO 80218-3915 Prisoner Services Phone: (303) 777-5482; (303) 777-1773 fax Contact: Peggy Harrell E-mail: [email protected] Address: Marin County Jail Website: www.aclu-co.org 13 Peter Behr Drive Services: Handle habeas corpus and prison- San Rafael, CA 94903 conditions matters, damage suits. Phone: (415) 499-3203 Provide direct referrals. Services: Provide direct services for prisoners in the Marin County Jail and their Colorado CURE families, including referrals to Contact: Dianne Tramutola-Lawson community agencies regarding Address: 3470 S. Poplar - #406 counseling on drugs and alcohol Denver, CO 80224 dependency; food and clothing; Phone: (303) 758-3390 (also fax #) literacy programs; family counseling; E-mail: [email protected] and orientation for prisoners and Website: www.coloradocure.org families moving on to state prisons. Services: Work primarily through legislative Excellent resource for San Quentin channels to reduce crime through prisoners temporarily detained here. reform of the criminal-justice system. Provide prisoners and their families Public Interest Law Firm with information about rehabilitative Contact: Kyra Kazantzis programs. Provide no legal services. Address: 111 West Street Jon - #315 Publish quarterly newsletter. San Jose, CA 95113 Phone: (408) 280-2417 Empowerment Program Services: A program of the Law Foundation of Contact: Kathy Howard Silicon Valley, the mission is to Address: 1600 York Street protect human rights of individuals Denver, CO 80206 and groups in the Silicon Valley area Phone: (303) 320-1989; (303) 320-3987 fax who are under-represented in the E-mail: kat- civil-justice system. PILF [email protected] accomplishes its mission by Website: www.empowermentprogram.org leveraging the skills and resources of Services: Provide education, employment pro bono attorneys to provide high assistance, health, housing referrals quality representation in class action and support services to women who and impact litigation, advocacy in are in disadvantaged positions due to state and local government, and incarceration, poverty, litigation support to local legal homelessness, HIV/AIDS infection or services programs. involvement in the criminal-justice system. Our goal is to decrease State Public Defender—San Francisco rates of recidivism by providing case Contact: Lynne S. Coffin management, support services, Address: 221 Main Street, 10th Floor basic skills education, housing and San Francisco, CA 94105 resource coordination that can offer Phone: (415) 904-5600; (415) 904-5635 fax viable alternatives to habits and Services: Capital appeals (only) for convicted choices that may lead to criminal felony indigents. behaviors.

New Foundations Non-Violence Center COLORADO Address: 901 W. 14th Avenue - #7 Denver, CO 80204 ACLU of Colorado

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Phone: (303) 825-2562; (303) 623-3492 fax family reunification for men (post- Website: www.home.earthlink.net/~nfnc release), and HIV/AIDS programs. Services: Offer a one-to-one visitation program at the Denver County Jail that Connecticut Correctional Ombudsman includes advocacy and informal Contact: James R. Bookwalter counseling. Organize intensive Address: 110 Bartholomew Avenue - #4010 three-day Alternatives to Violence Hartford, CT 06106 Project (AVP) workshops in some Phone: (860) 951-8867; (860) 951-8872 fax Colorado penal facilities, and some Services: Receives and investigates community settings. complaints from prisoners in Connecticut institutions about the Volunteers of America Colorado Branch actions and decisions of the Contact: Calvin McGee, Program Supervisor Department of Corrections. We Address: 22877 Lawrence Street accept collect calls. Denver, CO 80205 Phone: (303) 295-2165; (303) 298-8169 fax Families in Crisis, Inc. Services: Provide emergency services and Contact: Susan Quinlan resources to ex-offenders and their Address: 30 Arbor Street, North Wing families, including technical Hartford, CT 06106 assistance, bus tokens, clothing, Phone: (860) 236-3593; (860) 231-8430 fax tools, food, etc. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.familiesincrisis.org Services: Provides a comprehensive range of CONNECTICUT counseling and support services to offenders and their families: ACLU Connecticut individual and family counseling, Contact: Renee Redman crisis intervention, court outreach, Address: 32 Grand Street transportation, childcare programs, Hartford, CT 06106 parent education groups, support Phone: (860) 247-9823; (860) 728-0287 fax groups and training programs. Areas E-mail: [email protected] served include: Greater Hartford, Website: www.acluct.org New Haven, Waterbury, and Services: Provide assistance to a limited Bridgeport. Publish Going Home : A number of class actions. No Pre-Release Training Manual for individual prisoner assistance is available. Successful Family Reintegration , $23.95 per copy.

Community Partners in Action Contact: Maureen Price-Boreland Families in Crisis New Haven Office Address: Parkville Business Center Address: 48 Howe Street 110 Bartholomew Avenue - #3010 New Haven, CT 06511 Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: (203) 498-7790; (203) 562-3660 fax Phone: (860) 566-2030; (860) 566-8089 fax Website: www.familiesincrisis.org E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cpa-ct.org Families in Crisis Waterbury Office Services: Provides a wide range of services to Address: 232 N. Elm Street offenders and ex-offenders, including Waterbury, CT 06702 alternatives to incarceration, pretrial- Phone: (203) 573-8656; (203) 573-1132 fax release programs, resettlement Website: www.familiesincrisis.org program, employment services, substance-abuse programming, Inmates’ Legal Assistance Program, Law community-service opportunities, Offices of Sydney T. Schulman work-release residential program, Contact: Jane Starkowski

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Address: 78 Oak Street, P.O. Box 260237 prison conditions and direct referrals. Hartford, CT 06126-0237 Damages suits can be handled on a Phone: (860) 246-1118; (800) 301-4527; contingency-fee basis only if client is (860) 246-1119 fax a pauper and s/he cannot get a local Services: Provide legal assistance in civil law firm to take the case. Publish matters only. Assistance does not Connecticut Prisoners’ Rights , which include representation and/or includes a detailed reference guide entering an appearance in a case. to resources for prisoners and ex- Assist prisoners in identifying, offenders, $4 if able to pay. articulating and researching legal claims. Enable prisoners’ access to Perception Programs, Inc. the judicial system via advice, Address: 54 North Street, P.O. Box 407 counsel and preparation of Willimantic, CT 06226 meaningful legal papers such as Phone: (860) 450-7122; (860) 450-7127 fax writs, complaints, motions and legal E-mail: linda.mastrianni@ memorandum or law for claims perceptionprograms.org having legal merit. Our legal services Website: www.perceptionprograms.org are limited to sentenced prisoners Services: Limited to Connecticut residents and prisoners incarcerated in only. Programs include residential Connecticut institutions. work-release and treatment programs for male and female Isaiah 61:1, Inc. offenders, residential substance- Contact: Ed Davies abuse treatment for male offenders, Address: P.O. Box 1399 Alternative to Incarceration Center, Bridgeport, CT 06601 Intentional Skills Development Phone: (203) 368-6116; (203) 576-0616 fax groups available in Department of E-mail: [email protected] Correction Institutions, outpatient Services: Offer pre-release programs for substance-abuse counseling and offenders to help them achieve a supportive housing for HIV+ inmates smooth transition back to their ending their sentences. families and communities. Services include: , career guidance, spiritual and individual DELAWARE counseling groups, life-skills training, AIDS Delaware anger management, HIV/AIDS Contact: John Baker education and counseling, Address: 100 W. 10th Street - #315 AA/NA/Alanon, and mandatory family Wilmington, DE 19801 therapy. Programs last approximately Phone: (302) 652-6776; (302) 652-5150 fax 6-9 months for women and 3-4 E-mail: [email protected] months for men. Website: www.aidsdelaware.org

Services: Offer free and anonymous HIV Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization counseling and testing; case Contact: Brett Dignam management, prevention, and Address: Yale Legal Services educational programs; support P.O. Box 209090 groups, STD/HIV hotline, and more. New Haven, CT 06520 Provide safer-sex literature and a Phone: (203) 432-4800; (203) 432-1426 fax Dispatch newsletter, free upon Services: Limited resources. Offer legal written request for information. services to Connecticut federal and state prisoners. Specialize in AIDS Delaware Kent and Sussex County Office parole-related litigation, Address: 706 Rehoboth Avenue post-conviction, habeas corpus, Rehoboth, DE 19971

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Phone: (302) 226-5350; (302) 226-3519 fax public safety, for juveniles, through the development of model programs, ACLU of Delaware technical assistance, research/policy Contact: Julia Graff analysis, and public education. Address: 100 W. 10th Street - #309 Wilmington, DE 19801 D.C. Prisoners’ Legal Services Project, Inc. Phone: (302) 654-3966; (302) 654-3689 fax Address: 11 Dupont Circle, N.W. - #400 E-mail: [email protected] Washington, DC 20036 Website: www.aclu-de.org Phone: (202) 319-1010 Services: Handle litigation on constitutional E-mail: [email protected] issues on a limited basis. Services: Provide legal services to D.C. Code offenders, wherever they are Delaware Center for Justice, Inc. incarcerated, in confinement and Contact: Janet Leban non-confinement-related civil Address: 100 West 10th Street - #905 matters. Serve as an individual Wilmington, DE 19801 representation clearinghouse on Phone: (302) 658-7174; (302) 658-7170 fax prisoners’ rights issues related to E-mail: [email protected] D.C.; provide social services and Website: www.dcjustice.org health education (AIDS/HIV-related); Services: Advocate on behalf of prisoners and information and referrals. Distribute a their families to resolve problems in free basic AIDS/HIV information the criminal-justice system. Services brochure. include prisoner grievances; alternatives to incarceration; National CURE legislative advocacy; AIDS Address: P.O. Box 2310 education. Special emphasis on Washington, DC 20013 incarcerated women’s issues. Phone: (202) 789-2126 Provide volunteer tutoring services to E-mail: [email protected] juvenile institutions. Quarterly Website: www.curenational.org newsletter is available free to Services: Organize prisoners, their families Delaware prisoners upon request. and other concerned citizens to achieve reforms in the criminal- justice system. No individual cases.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Prisons Foundation ACLU of the National Capital Area Address: 1718 M Street, N.W. - #151 Contact: Art Spitzer Washington, DC 20036 Address: 1400 20th Street, N.W. - #119 Phone: (202) 393-1511; (727) 538-2095 fax Washington, DC 20036-5920 Website: www.prisonsfoundation.org Phone: (202) 457-0800 Services: Sponsors prisons arts and crafts Website: www.aclu-nca.org shows around the country with the Services: Limited constitutional issues support of the National Endowment litigation. for the Arts. Currently have about

100 inmates in 40 states in the U.S. Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice and England involved in this show. Address: 1234 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. - #C1009 Prison Art Gallery Washington, DC 20005 Address: 1600 K Street, N.W. - #501 Phone: (202) 737-7270; (202) 737-7271 fax Washington, D.C. 20006 Website: www.cjcj.org Services: Open 9:30am to 5:30pm M-F, and Services: Promote balanced and humane 12:30pm to 5:30pm Saturday and criminal-justice policies that reduce Sunday. incarceration and promote long-term

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Prisoners’ Rights Program Phone: (850) 915-0695 Contact: Ryan Roberts Services: Criminal defense investigations, both Address: Public Defender Service trial and post-conviction; fact 633 Indiana Avenue, N.W. development; mitigation; witness Washington, DC 20004 location. Phone: (202) 628-1200; (202) 626-8423 fax Services: Services limited to prisoners Federal Cure, Inc. confined in D.C. correctional Address: P.O. Box 15667 facilities. Provide legal advice and Plantation, FL 33317 assistance with conditions-of- Phone: (408) 549-8935 confinement issues generally, E-mail: [email protected] including living conditions, access to Website: www.fedcure.org adequate medical, dental, and psychiatric care, access to the Florida Families with Loved Ones in Prison courts, confinement to special (FLIP) housing units, visitation issues, and Address: 710 Flanders Avenue the right to practice one’s religion. No Daytona, FL 32114 criminal matters, motions to reduce Phone: (904) 254-8453 sentence or detainers. Distribute free Website: www.afn.org/~flip informational memos on various Services: Provide counseling to family prison law topics upon written members through Action and request only. Support Groups. Publish biannual newsletter. See our website for a full Visitors’ Services Center listing of chapters throughout Florida. Contact: Ann Cunningham-Keep Address: 1422 Massachusetts Avenue, S.E. Florida Institutional Legal Services, Inc. (FILS) Washington, DC 20003 Address: 1010-B NW 8th Avenue Phone: (202) 544-2131; (202) 543-1572 fax Gainesville, FL 32601 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (352) 375-2494; (352) 271-4366 fax Website: www.vscdcjails.net Services: Legal assistance to prisoners Services: Provide volunteers who visit incarcerated in state institutions in prisoners at the D.C. Jail and help Florida. Handle primarily class them with problems on the outside, actions. Cases involving conditions including: referrals to drug treatment, of confinement, medical care, civil jobs and housing. Also offer a third- rights, and brutality will receive party custodianship program. priority.

Florida Justice Institute, Inc. FLORIDA Contact: Randall C. Berg, Jr. ACLU of Florida Address: 4320 Bank of America Tower Contact: Randall Marshall 100 S.E. Second Street Address: 4500 Biscayne Boulevard - #340 Miami, FL 33131 Miami, FL 33137-3227 Phone: (305) 358-2081; (305) 358-0910 fax Phone: (786) 363-2700; (305) 576-1106 fax E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Services: Handle civil-rights actions affecting Website: www.aclufl.org conditions in Florida’s prisons and Services: Handle litigation on constitutional jails; referral arrangements with issues. members of the private bar for damages suits and civil-rights cases; prison advocacy; and lobbying for Capital Defense Project criminal-justice reform. (No collect Address: P.O. Box 14273 calls.) Tallahassee, FL 32317

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Phone: (404) 874-9652; (404) 874-7964 fax Transition Website: www.opendoorcommunity.org Address: 1550 N.W. 3 rd Avenue Services: Visitation; correspondence; advocacy Miami, FL 33136 for individual prisoners. Provide Phone: (305) 571-2001; (305) 571-2002 fax hospitality and transportation for Services: Job-training and job-placement family members to visit prisons. services for ex-offenders. Services for Georgia prisons only and primarily death-row prisoners.

GEORGIA Thomas M. West, Attorney at Law Address: 400 Colony Square - #200 ACLU of Georgia 1201 Peachtree Street, NE Contact: Gerry Weber Atlanta, GA 30361 Address: P.O. Box 54406 Phone: (404) 589-0136; (404) 881-2875 fax Atlanta, GA 30308 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (404) 523-5398; (404) 577-0181 fax Services: Post-conviction; habeas corpus; E-mail: [email protected] prison conditions; direct referrals; Website: www.acluga.org damage suits and criminal defense. Services: Litigate prison-condition problems.

No post- conviction cases.

Prison and Jail Project HAWAII Contact: John Cole Vodicka ACLU of Hawaii Address: P.O. Box 6749 Contact: Lois Perrin Americus, GA 31709 Address: P.O. Box 3410 Phone: (229) 928-2080; (229) 924-7080 fax Honolulu, HI 96801 Services: Watchdog agency that monitors Phone: (808) 522-5900; (808) 522-5909 fax conditions in jails and prisons and E-mail: [email protected] treatment of defendants in Website: www.acluhawaii.org courtrooms. Advocate on behalf of Services: Handle prison-conditions and prisoners, criminal defendants, and individual abuse cases; limited to their families. Focus is on Southwest state prisons. Georgia, not statewide. Publish Freedomways, a newsletter free to Office of the Ombudsman prisoners six times a year. Contact: Robin K. Matsunaga Address: 465 S. King Street, 4th Floor Southern Center for Human Rights Honolulu, HI 96813 Address: 83 Poplar Street, N.W. Phone: (808) 587-0770; (808) 587-0774 Atlanta, GA 30303-2122 TTY; (808) 587-0773 fax Phone: (404) 688-1202; (404) 688-9440 fax E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ombudsman.hawaii.gov Website: www.schr.org Services: Receive complaints from prisoners Services: Civil-rights actions affecting regarding conditions of confinement conditions and practices in Alabama at facilities operated by the State of and Georgia prisons. Represent Hawaii. people facing the death penalty and assist attorneys handling jail, prison and death-penalty cases. IDAHO

ACLU of Idaho Southern Prison Ministry Contact: Jack Van Valkenburgh Contact: Murphy Davis Address: P.O. Box 1897 Address: 910 Ponce de Leon Avenue, N.E. Boise, ID 83701 Atlanta, GA 30306-4212

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Phone: (208) 344-9750; (208) 344-7201 fax Services: Help protect the rights of Jewish E-mail: [email protected] prisoners in Illinois. Pre- and Website: www.acluidaho.org post-release counseling with Services: Advocate for civil liberties in Idaho, prisoners and their families, and including the rights of prisoners. support programs to obtain housing and employment for ex-offenders.

ILLINOIS John Howard Association Address: 300 West Adams Street - #423 ACLU of Illinois Chicago, IL 60606 Contact: Harvey Grossman Phone: (312) 782-1901; (312) 782-1902 fax Address: 180 N. Michigan Avenue - #2300 E-mail: [email protected] Chicago, IL 60601-7401 Website: www.john-howard.org Phone: (312) 201-9740; (312) 201-9760 fax Services: Limited direct services within Illinois; E-mail: [email protected] monitoring of Illinois prisons and jails Website: www.aclu-il.org and advocacy on prison conditions Services: Civil-rights actions; priority to class and prisoners’ rights. action issues.

MacArthur Justice Center Illinois CURE Contact: Locke Bowman Contact: Dr. Maria Rudisch Address: Northwestern University School of Address: 3134 E. 92nd Street Law Chicago, IL 60617 375 E. Chicago Avenue Phone: (773) 933-7919 Chicago, IL 60611

Phone: (312) 503-1271; (312) 503-1272 fax Institute of Women Today Services: Does impact litigation on criminal- Contact: Sister Donna Quinn, RSM justice issues, especially prison Address: 7315 S. Yale Avenue conditions. While we do conduct Chicago, IL 60621 litigation on behalf of prisoners, we Phone: (773) 651-8372; (773) 783-2673 fax do not accept all cases. Services for E-mail: [email protected] Federal and state prisoners. Services: Civil-rights actions; habeas corpus;

direct referrals; legal research; prison Prisoner Release Ministry, Inc. health care; employment and Address: P.O. Box 69 vocational guidance; skills training; Joliet, IL 60434-0069 counseling; advocates for children of Phone: (815) 723-8998; (815) 723-5544 fax incarcerated mothers. We also have E-mail: [email protected] two shelters for former female prison Website: www.prisonerreleaseministry.com residents and their children in Services: Job preparation, counseling and Chicago: Maria Shelter (transitional placement for persons on probation, shelter with 4-month stay) and Casa parole, and work release in Will, Notre Dame (second-stage shelter Kankakee, Kane, DuPage, Kendall, with maximum 2-year stay for Grundy and Cook Counties. women who need more time to Emergency assistance with food, accomplish their goals). work clothes, and transportation.

Computerized job bank for entire Jewish Prisoners Assistance Foundation State of Illinois. Contact: Rabbi Binyomin Scheiman Address: 9401 N. Margail Safer Foundation Des Plaines, IL 60016 Contact: Ewing A. Foulks Phone: (847) 296-1770; (847) 296-1823 fax Address: 571 West Jackson Boulevard Website: www.chabadandfree.com Chicago, IL 60661-5701

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Phone: (312) 922-2200; (312) 922-7640 fax Website: www.saferfoundation.org Public Defender of Indiana Services: Provide job-readiness training, job Contact: Susan Engelland placement, basic education, drug- Address: 1 N. Capitol - #800 abuse counseling, emergency Indianapolis, IN 46204 services (by referral for food, Phone: (317) 232-2475; (317) 232-2307 fax clothing, shelter) to men and women Services: Provide legal representation to released from prison to Chicago area indigent prisoners in post-conviction and to the Quad Cities area (Rock actions challenging Indiana Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa). convictions/sentences in state court Operate the Crossroads Community only . Represent juveniles in parole Correctional Center for men. Publish revocation proceedings. Also accept informational materials on the Safer appointments, at county expense, for programs and a quarterly newsletter. trial or appeal.

INDIANA

ACLU Indiana IOWA Contact: Ken Falk ACLU Iowa Address: 1031 E. Washington Street Contact: Randall Wilson Indianapolis, IN 46202 Address: 901 Insurance Exchange Building Phone: (317) 635-4056; (317) 635-4105 fax Des Moines, IA 50309 Website: www.aclu-in.org Phone: (515) 243-3576; (515) 243-8506 fax Services: Handle prison-conditions matters; Website: www.iowaclu.org provide referrals. Services: Provide direct referrals. Handle prison-conditions litigation and Damien Center legislative issues on prison Address: 26 N. Arsenal Avenue conditions. Handle no post-conviction Indianapolis, IN 46201 matters. Phone: (317) 632-0123; (800) 213-1167; (317) 632-4363 fax Iowa CURE E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Jean Basinger Website: www.damien.org Address: P.O. Box 41005 Services: Offer services to prisoners who have Des Moines, IA 50311-4718 AIDS or are HIV-positive. Assist Phone: (515) 277-6296 former prisoners with employment Services: Work toward reform of sentencing services and housing assistance. laws, including clemency procedure Also assist families of people with and sentence length. Assist in job AIDS. Publish the Damien Center training and enhancement of Newsletter , available upon request. prisoner-family relationships. (No collect calls.) Iowa Citizens’ Aide Ombudsman Indiana CURE Contact: William Angrick Address: P.O. Box 199256 Address: Ola Babcock Miller Building Indianapolis, IN 46219 1112 E. Grand Avenue, 1st Floor, W. Phone: (317) 357-2606 Wing E-mail: [email protected] Des Moines, IA 50319 Services: Advocacy organization that works to Phone: (515) 281-3592; (515) 242-6007 fax reduce crime through criminal-justice Services: Handle issues related to prisons, reform and the rehabilitation of jails, and the Iowa Department of errants. Also work with the families of Corrections. prisoners. Iowa Medical Society

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Contact: Office of Legal Affairs Address: 1001 Grand Avenue West Des Moines, IA 50265 KENTUCKY Phone: (515) 223-1401; (515) 223-0590 fax ACLU of Kentucky E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Lili Lutgens Website: www.iowamedical.org/ola.htm Address: 315 Guthrie Street - #300 Services: The core purpose of the IMS is to Louisville, KY 40202 assure the highest quality of health Phone: (502) 581-1181; (502) 589-9687 fax care in Iowa through our role as E-mail: [email protected] physician and patient advocate. Website: www.aclu-ky.org Handle inmate grievances against Services: Handle prison- and jail-conditions prison doctors or hospitals. matters.

University of Iowa College of Law—Legal Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, Clinic Capital Post-Conviction Branch Contact: John Whiston Address: 100 Fair Oaks Lane - #301 Address: University of Iowa College of Law Frankfort, KY 40601 Iowa City, IA 52242 Phone: (502) 564-3948; (502) 564-3949 fax Phone: (319) 335-9023; (319) 353-5445 fax Services: Handle post-conviction cases at E-mail: [email protected] state and federal level. Also provide Services: Handle post-conviction, habeas training for legal services and corpus and prison-conditions cases referrals. and provide direct referrals. Maintain

a waiting list in order to limit the number of cases assigned to students. Legal research is subject to LOUISIANA delays. Services limited to prisoners ACLU of Louisiana in Iowa or serving Iowa sentences in Contact: Katie Schwartzmann other jurisdictions. Address: P.O. Box 56157 New Orleans, LA 70156 Phone: (504) 522-0617; (504) 522-0618 fax KANSAS E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.laaclu.org ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri Services: Provide post-conviction referrals. Address: 3601 Main Street Consider prison-condition and civil- Kansas City, MO 64111 rights violations for impact litigation. Phone: (816) 756-3113

Website: www.aclukswmo.org Services: Handle prison-conditions cases and Community Service Center, Inc. provide direct referrals. Do not Contact: Octavia Edinburg handle post-conviction matters. Address: 4000 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70115

Phone: (504) 897-6277; (504) 897-6281 fax Paul E. Wilson Defender Project E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Jean K. Gilles Phillips Services: Free counseling, case management, Address: University of Kansas, School of Law emergency, GED preparatory 409 Green Hall classes, substance-abuse referrals, Lawrence, KS 66045 socialization classes and support Phone: (785) 864-5571; (785) 864-5054 fax groups (including family reunification, Services: Handle post-conviction and habeas women-to-women and parenting) for corpus cases; only provide advice on former prisoners convicted of a civil matters. Assist prisoners in felony. Kansas and Leavenworth Federal

Penitentiary. No money damages.

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Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana Address: University of Maine School of Law Address: 1600 Oretha C. Haley Boulevard 246 Deering Avenue New Orleans, LA 70113 Portland, ME 04102 Phone: (504) 522-5437; (504) 522-5430 fax Phone: (207) 780-4370; toll-free: (877) 780- Website: www.jjpl.org 2522 Services: Provide legal services for juveniles. Website: www.mainelaw.maine.edu/ cumberlandlegal.aspx Louisiana CURE Services: Provide legal representation for low- Address: P.O. Box 181 income individuals in Cumberland, Baton Rouge, LA 70821 York, and Southern Androscoggin. Website: www.curelouisiana.org Assist in civil cases including divorce, Services: Advocacy organization that works to parental rights and responsibilities, reduce crime through criminal-justice general civil litigation, civil-rights reform and the rehabilitation of litigation, and non-fee-generating tort errants. litigation. Provide criminal defense for any class of crime at the state Project Return level and in the U.S. District Court for Contact: Dr. Robert E. Roberts the District of Maine. Also, protection Address: 51 Yosemite Drive from abuse and harassment litigation New Orleans, LA 70131 in all service areas. Clients are Phone: (504) 452-5585; (504) 988-1019 fax represented by seniors in law school E-mail: [email protected] who are specially licensed to practice Website: www.projectreturn.com law in the State of Maine. Does not Services: Offer a proven, cost-effective method provide legal advice or information of transitioning convicted felons over the phone. Does not maintain a successfully from incarceration to waiting list of potential clients. Does free society and finally to not provide services on a walk-in employment. Services include GED basis. preparation, addiction treatment and counseling and job-training and Maine CURE placement assistance. A brochure Address: 6 Boulder Lane outlining the program (which is a part Lyman, ME 04002 of Tulane University Medical Center- Phone: (207) 449-7334 SPH&TM) is available free upon Services: Advocacy organization that works to request. reduce crime through criminal-justice reform and the rehabilitation of errants.

MAINE NDRAN CURE (National Assistance ACLU Maine Network) Contact: Shenna Bellows Address: June 1 - October 1: Address: 401 Cumberland Avenue - #105 6 Tolman Rd Portland, ME 04101 Peaks Island, ME 04108 Phone: (207) 774-5444; (207) 774-1103 fax October 1 - June 1: E-mail: [email protected] 12200 Rd. 41.9 Website: www.mclu.org Mancos, CO 81328 Services: Handle prison-conditions cases. Phone: June 1 - October 1: Direct representation by MCLU is (207) 766-2418 available in cases involving violations October 1 - June 1: of constitutional rights. (970) 533-7383

E-mail: [email protected] Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic Website: www.ndran.org Contact: Diane Arbour

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Services: Promote and provide information about rehabilitative programs. MARYLAND Advocate for sensible use of prison space, alternatives to incarceration, ACLU of Maryland and resources and programs that will Contact: Debbie Jeon assist prisoners. Local and National Address: 3600 Clipper Mill Road - #350 CURE newsletters available with a Baltimore, MD 21211 MD CURE membership. Phone: (410) 889-8555; (410) 889-8558

TTY; (410) 366-7838 fax Office of the Public Defender, Collateral E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.aclu-md.org Review Division Services: Handle prison-conditions cases. Address: 300 W. Preston Street - #213 Direct representation by the ACLU is Baltimore, MD 21201 available only in cases involving Phone: (410) 767-8460; (410) 333-7609 fax violation of constitutional rights. The Website: www.opd.state.md.us Baltimore office also handles all Services: Handle post-convictions, parole cases concerning prisoners in revocation and extradition matters for Eastern Shore jails. prisoners throughout Maryland. Services limited to Maryland state prisoners only. Alternative Directions, Inc.

Address: 2505 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Prisoner Rights Information System of Phone: (410) 889-5072; (410) 889-5092 fax Maryland Services: Alternative Directions provides free Contact: Stephen Meehan legal assistance to persons in prison Address: P.O. Box 929 or recently released from Chestertown, MD 21620 incarceration. Most cases handled Phone: (410) 778-1700 involve family and domestic legal Services: Handle civil-rights cases pertaining to issues. The program also provides conditions-of-confinement issues (no monthly workshops to prisoners on criminal work). Limited to state legal rights and responsibilities. prisons. Provide direct referrals, free legal service to retain counsel and Health Education Resource Organization representation at Inmate Grievance Office hearings in select cases. Also (HERO) handle medical complaints, Address: 1734 Maryland Avenue sentencing reviews and Baltimore, MD 21201 miscellaneous legal problems. Phone: (410) 685-1180; (410) 685-3101 fax

Website: http://hero-mcrc.org Services: Sponsor volunteers who go to the Prisoners Aid Association of Maryland, Inc. Contact: Michael Brown Maryland State Penitentiary to th provide counseling, facilitating Address: 204 E. 25 Street meetings, contacting families and Baltimore, MD 21218 lawyers. Distribute some literature Phone: (410) 662-0353; (410) 662-0358 fax and videos related to health issues. Website: www.prisonersaid.org Contact them for specifics. Services: Provide services to prisoners and ex-offenders through community involvement and professional Maryland CURE programs, including: counseling, Address: P.O. Box 23 employment and housing placement. Simpsonville, MD 21150 Run residential facility for homeless Phone: (301) 869-8180 and jobless ex-offenders. Fact sheet E-mail: [email protected] available. Website: www.curenational.org/~mdcure

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Boston, MA 02108 Phone: (617) 482-2773; (617) 451-6383 fax E-mail: [email protected] MASSACHUSETTS Website: www.mcls.net ACLU of Massachusetts Services: Provide direct services to Contact: John Reinstein Massachusetts prisoners on the Address: 211 Congress Street following matters: civil-rights Boston, MA 02110 violations, denial of medical care, Phone: No incoming calls; (617) 451-0009 brutality, detainers and warrants, fax recovery of “lost” property, sentence E-mail: [email protected] calculation, parole application and Website: www.aclu-mass.org revocation, advice and referrals for Services: Handle cases involving civil-liberties disciplinary hearings and violations; provide limited direct post-conviction proceedings (no referrals. direct representation), and visitation. Publish a free quarterly newsletter, Goldfarb Behavioral Health Clinic Integration MCLS Notes , in English and Program Spanish. MCLS accepts collect calls Address: Shattuck Hospital from Massachusetts prisoners on 170 Morton Street Monday afternoons from 1 to 4 p.m. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (800) 882-1413/(617) 482-4124 Phone: (617) 971-3375 (County Facilities) (877) 249-1342 Website: www.shattuckhospital.org (DOC Facilities). Services: This project is for ex-offenders returning to the community who need Massachusetts CURE mental-health and/or substance- Contact: Dave Elvin abuse services. The project also Address: 409 Main Street serves people who are on parole and Amherst, MA 01002 probation. Phone: (413) 687-7363 E-mail: [email protected] Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project Services: Education and outreach. Do not (PLAP) provide direct assistance. Contact: Pamela Cameron Address: Gannett House 100 Suffolk County House of Correction, Inmate Harvard Law School Legal Services Cambridge, MA 02138 Address: 20 Bradston Street Phone: (617) 495-3969 (non-collect) Boston, MA 02118 Hotline: (617) 495-3127 (in-state prisoners Phone: (617) 635-1000 only ) Services: General legal services, exclusively Services: Representation of prisoners at serving indigent prisoners confined disciplinary and/or parole hearings. to the Suffolk County House of Also assist State prisoners with other Correction in Boston. By appointment prison-related problems via hotline. and referral, assist with routine jail Services for Massachusetts credit, sentencing, and habeas prisoners only. No self-help manuals. corpus; claims for bail money and Does not send legal materials in the personal property; post-conviction mail. motions, parole and disciplinary hearings; and assistance with pro se Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, civil matters, including referral and Inc. coordination with outside counsel. Contact: Leslie Walker Address: 8 Winter Street, 11th Floor

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MICHIGAN therapists, the justice system, policy makers, and the public. ACLU of Michigan

Contact: Michael Steinberg

Address: 60 West Hancock Detroit, MI 48201-1343 MINNESOTA Phone: (313) 578-6800; (313) 578-6811 fax ACLU Minnesota E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Teresa Nelson Website: www.aclumich.org Address: 450 N. Syndicate Avenue - #230 Services: Handle prison-conditions cases and St. Paul, MN 55104 provide direct referrals. Services are Phone: no incoming calls; (651) 647-5948 limited to state prisons and jails. fax E-mail: [email protected] CURE—Enough Website: www.aclu-mn.org Address: P.O. Box 15655 Services: Handle various matters, including Detroit, MI 48230 post-conviction, habeas corpus, and Phone: (269) 383-0028; (269) 373-2545 fax prison conditions only if they present E-mail: [email protected] a Bill of Rights violation. Provide Services: Organizes to remove felony direct referrals. restrictions on jobs, etc. AMICUS Michigan CURE Address: 15 S. 5 th Street - #1100 Contact: Kay D. Perry Minneapolis, MN 55402 Address: P.O. Box 2736 Phone: (612) 348-8570; (612) 348-6782 fax Kalamazoo, MI 49003-2736 Website: www.amicususa.org Phone: (269) 383-0028; (269) 373-2545 fax Services: Provide one-on-one volunteer E-mail: [email protected] services for prisoners in Minnesota Services: Grassroots criminal-justice-reform State prisons. Reconnect and assist organization that includes prisoners, ex-offenders with housing, clothing their families and other concerned and job-seeking resources. Offer citizens. Through advocacy, work to scholarships and pre- and post- establish a humane and effective release programs. criminal-justice system. Publish quarterly newsletter for members Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners and self-help brochures and Contact: Brad Colbert booklets. Address: LAMP Clinic 875 Summit Avenue SORT (Sex Offenders Restored through St. Paul, MN 55105 Treatment) Phone: (651) 290-8651; (651) 290-6406 fax Address: P.O. Box 1191 Services: Provide civil legal services to Okemos, MI 48805 persons incarcerated in Minnesota Phone: (517) 482-2085 state prisons who cannot afford or in E-mail: [email protected] any manner obtain a private attorney. Website: www.satasort.org Services: Offers education about types of Legal Rights Center abuses, ways to control abuse, and Contact: Community Worker positive approaches to therapy and Address: 1611 Park Avenue South restorative justice. Also lends Minneapolis, MN 55404 support through referrals, Phone: (612) 337-0030; (612) 337-0797 fax networking, and sharing positive E-mail: [email protected] information for those at risk as Website: www.legalrightscenter.org victims and offenders, those Services: Handle post-conviction, direct victimized, those who have offended, referrals and criminal defense cases

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only. No appeals except for cases Jefferson City, MO 65101 previously handled by the Center. Phone: (573) 636-5737 Services: Provide overnight lodging for family and friends visiting inmates in prison MISSISSIPPI areas. Also provide family- reunification support. ACLU of Mississippi

Contact: Nsombi Lambright Center for Women in Transition Address: P.O. Box 2242 Contact: Sister Rose McLarney Jackson, MS 39225-2242 Address: 7529 S. Broadway Phone: (601) 355-6464; (601) 355-6465 fax St. Louis, MO 63111 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (314) 771-5207 Website: www.msaclu.org Fax: (314) 771-0066 Services: Conduct civil-rights actions. Cases Email: [email protected] are limited to constitutional issues; Website: http://cwitstl.org/ no criminal work. Services: Provides information, referrals and

volunteer mentors for women exiting Mississippi CURE incarceration. Provides advocacy for Contact: Jonathan Edwards needs of children of offenders and Address: P.O. Box 1620 alternative sentencing for women. Philadelphia, MS 39350-9998

E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.mississippicure.org C.H.I.P.S. (Challenging Incarcerated Parents and Spouses) Contact: Institutional Activities Coordinator Address: 8501 No More Victims Rd. MISSOURI Jefferson City, MO 65101 4-H Living Interactive Family Education Phone: (573) 751-3911 Missouri Department of Corrections Services: Provide enhanced visiting, parent Contact: Institutional Activities Coordinator education, marriage seminars, family Address: 11593 State Highway O reunification, support and referrals Mineral Point, MO 63660 for fathers at Algoa Correctional Phone: (573) 438-6000 x1534 Center. Services: Provide enhanced visiting, parenting education and group activities to Criminal Justice Ministry incarcerated individuals and their Contact: Carleen Reck families at Potosi Correctional Address: 4127 Forest Park Avenue Center. Program uses National 4-H St. Louis, MO 63108 organization framework. Phone: (314) 652-8062; (314) 531-6712 fax Website: www.svdpstl.org/cjm ACLU of Eastern Missouri (Eastern) Services: Provide information, referrals, Contact: Anthony Rothert mentoring, public information and Address: 454 Whittier Street advocacy. St. Louis, MO 63108 Phone: (314) 652-3111 Girl Scout Council of Greater St. Louis Website: www.aclu-em.org Address: 2130 Kratky Road Services: Pursue prison-conditions issues and St. Louis, MO 63114 provide research, information and Phone: (314) 890-9569 referrals to prisoners. Website: www.gscgsl.org Services: Provide transportation and expenses Agape House for Girl Scouts Beyond Bars, Girl Contact: Linda Lamb, Manager Scout troop meetings in St. Louis Address: 810 East High

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and activities with moms and their reform and the rehabilitation of daughters at the correctional center. errants.

Good Samaritan Project Parents as Teachers Address: 3030 Walnut Street Contact: Melanie Richter Kansas City, MO 64108-3811 Address: 920 South Jefferson Phone: (816) 561-8784; (816) 753-4582 fax Mexico, MO 65265 Website: www.gspkc.org Phone: (573) 581-3773 x154 Services: Provide supportive and responsive Services: Provide parent education, care for individuals affected by counseling, information, referrals, HIV/AIDS, through education and gifts for children and family advocacy. reunification support. Serve Audrain County. Let’s Start Contact: Cynthia Stevenson PATCH of Chillicothe Address: 1408 South 10th Street Contact: Colleen Scotch, Director St. Louis, MO 63104 Address: P.O. Box 871 Phone: (314) 241-2324 Chillicothe, MO 64601 Services: Provide support for women coming Phone: (660) 646-6462 out of prison, their children and the Services: Provide enhanced mother-child visits caregivers of the children. Also in a home-like setting, pre- and post- provide public education and visit counseling, parent education, re- advocacy. entry preparation and support group, information, referrals, gifts for Long Distance Dads children, mentoring, public education Missouri Department of Corrections and advocacy, family therapy, family Contact: Joe Miller reunification support and Address: 2729 Plaza Drive transportation to visits at Chillicothe Jefferson City, MO 65102 Correctional Center. Phone: (573) 751-2389 Services: Provide parent education; self-help PATCH of W.E.R.D.C.C. and family-reunification support for (Women’s Eastern Reception and Diagnostic incarcerated fathers at several Correctional Center) Missouri facilities. Address: Highway E 54 Vandalia, MO 63382 Lutheran Ministries/Humanitri Phone: (573) 594-6686 Contact: Sarah Barnes Services: Provide transportation, overnight Address: P.O. Box 6385 lodging, children’s center in the St. Louis, MO 63107 visiting area, gifts for children and Phone: (314) 652-4300 x14 enhanced visiting for incarcerated Services: Provide transportation, self-help mothers at W.E.R.D.C.C. support group, mentoring, religious ministry and referrals. Prisoner Family Services Contact: Susan Smith Missouri CURE Address: 3540 Marcus Avenue Address: P.O. Box 6034 St. Louis, MO 63115 Chesterfield, MO 63006 Phone: (314) 807-4352 Phone: (816) 413-0186 Services: Provide transportation once or twice E-mail: [email protected] per month to 19 Missouri correctional Website: www.mocure.org centers. Also provide overnight Services: Advocacy organization that works to lodging, information, referrals, gifts reduce crime through criminal-justice

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for children, public education and Website: www.aclunebraska.org advocacy. Services: Handle civil-rights actions and habeas corpus. Cases are limited to Project COPE: Congregation Offender constitutional issues. Provide direct Partnership Enterprise referrals. Address: 3529 Marcus Avenue St. Louis, MO 63115 Nebraska AIDS Project Phone: (314) 389-4804; (314) 389-4804 fax Address: 139 S. 40th Street E-mail: [email protected] Omaha, NE 68131 Website: www.projcope.org Phone: (800) 782-2437 (in-state only) Services: Ecumenical agency engaging (402) 552-9260; (402) 552-9251 fax congregations in supportive Website: www.nap.org partnerships with individually Services: Statewide AIDS service organization selected ex-offenders as they re- providing prevention strategies, enter the St. Louis community. support services and case management to persons living with Regeneration Courage 2 Change, Inc. HIV/AIDS. Provides practical Contact: Wilma Warren support, volunteers, support groups, Address: P.O. Box 300573 emergency assistance and statewide St. Louis, MO 63132 hotline. Clients must be diagnosed Phone: (314) 368-2426 as HIV-positive. Support services Email: [email protected] available for family members and Services: Provides a mentoring/life-skills significant others. program for children with incarcerated parents, parent education, self-help support group, NEVADA information, referrals, religious ACLU of Nevada ministry, family reunification support, Contact: Gary Peck community residential services, Address: 732 South 6th Street - #200A public education and advocacy. Las Vegas, NV 89101 Phone: (702) 366-1226; (702) 366-1331 fax E-mail: [email protected] MONTANA Website: www.aclunv.org ACLU of Montana Services: Handle habeas corpus and prison- Contact: Scott Crichton and jail-conditions cases. All services Address: P.O. Box 1317 depend on the availability of Helena, MT 59624 volunteer counsel. Phone: (406) 248-1086; (406) 248-7763 fax E-mail: [email protected] Friends and Family of Incarcerated Persons, Website: www.aclumontana.org Inc. Services: Provide representation in prison- Address: P.O. Box 27708 conditions cases. Las Vegas, NV 89126 Phone: (702) 223-6600 E-mail: [email protected] Services: Provide support and help for the

NEBRASKA “outmates,” those on the outside ACLU of Nebraska who have a loved one in prison or Contact: Amy Miller jail. Hold meetings every Friday Address: 941 O Street - #706 evening, 7:00 p.m., at Christ Lincoln, NE 68508 Episcopal Church, 2000 South Phone: (402) 476-8091; (402) 476-8135 fax Maryland Parkway, Meeting Room E-mail: [email protected] #1.

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Services: Advocacy organization that works to Nevada AIDS Foundation reduce crime through criminal-justice Address: 900 West First Street - #200 reform and the rehabilitation of Reno, NV 89503 errants. Phone: (775) 348-9888; (775) 324-9339 fax E-mail: [email protected] H.O.P.E. For Ex-Offenders, Inc. Website: www.nvaf.net Contact: Rev. Jonathan Whitfield Services: Services limited to HIV-positive Address: 259 Passaic Street prisoners. Write and/or visit Hackensack, NJ 07601 prisoners, depending upon Phone: (201) 646-1995 (phone and fax) volunteers. Residence assistance for Services: Provide employment referrals, qualified persons with HIV infection temporary housing, clothing, food, (in latest stages). Try to find homes transportation, medication, etc., for for prisoners upon release. Housing prisoners in Bergen and Passaic is subsidized up to $300 a month, counties. depending on existing funds. Maintain a food bank that is available Horton Dance! Inc. for HIV-positive former prisoners. Contact: Rev. Adrienne Unae Several free brochures. Address: P.O. Box 311 Clementon, NJ 08021 Phone: (856) 783-7314 NEW HAMPSHIRE E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.hortondance.org New Hampshire CLU Services: Ministers to the incarcerated via Contact: Claire Ebel dance movement therapy and Address: 18 Low Avenue teaches the art form as a mode of Concord, NH 03301 prayer and embodied prayer for Phone: (603) 225-3080; (603) 226-3149 fax mental and physical healing. Services: Handle prison conditions, First

Amendment and prisoners’ rights cases. Hyacinth AIDS Foundation Address: 317 George Street - #203 New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Phone: (732) 246-0204; (732) 246-4137 fax NEW JERSEY (800) 443-0254 (in-state only) ACLU of New Jersey E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Legal Department Website: www.hyacinth.org Address: P.O. Box 32159 Services: Offer the following services to Newark, NJ 07102 prisoners with AIDS or who are Phone: (973) 642-2084; (973) 642-6523 fax HIV-positive: buddies/volunteers who E-mail: [email protected] offer one-on-one support; support Website: www.aclu-nj.org groups; liaison with paroled/released Services: Legal defense of serious violations of prisoners; and AIDS information for constitutional rights; violations must corrections staff. Services are originate within the State of New available to state and county Jersey. prisoners, but not at every facility since access to each facility must be Garden State CURE granted separately. Also offer Address: c/o Office of Jail & Prison Ministry support groups for families and a P.O. Box 5147 rental-assistance program in Essex Trenton, NJ 08638 County only. Phone: (609) 406-7400, x5655 E-mail: [email protected] New Jersey Association on Correction (NJAC)

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Address: 986 S. Broad Street Office of the Ombudsman, New Jersey Trenton, NJ 08611 Department of Corrections Phone: (609) 396-8900; (609) 396-8999 Address: Department of Corrections, Services: Provide direct services to offenders Ombudsman’s Office and ex-offenders and advocates to P.O. Box 855 improve the criminal-justice system. Trenton, NJ 08625 Direct services are offered through Phone: (609) 292-8020 (Inmate Line, collect two pre-release facilities, Clinton calls accepted) House and Bates House. The two Services: Provide assistance to prisoners with resource centers serve probationers problems and complaints. The office and parolees. Residential facilities functions independently of the state are restricted to state prisoners on prison facilities to ensure the community release. Also publish development of trust, confidentiality News and Views , a quarterly and objectivity between Ombudsmen newsletter discussing criminal-justice and prisoners. Ombudsmen are and corrections issues, available as expected to be alert and to follow a membership benefit. Membership through on any violation of due is free to prisoners and $20/year for process; to observe that basic living non-prisoners. standards are met; to be especially responsive to all allegations of staff NJAC’s Clinton House brutality; and to observe searches Address: 21 N. Clinton Avenue and crisis situations as required. Trenton, NJ 08609 Phone: (609) 396-9186; (609) 396-0099 fax Services: Clinton House is a 40-bed residential NEW MEXICO community-release program for adult ACLU of New Mexico male offenders. Most of the residents Contact: Peter Simonson are A304s (classified violent Address: P.O. Box 80915 offenders). Eligibility criteria include Albuquerque, NM 87198 full minimum status and being within Phone: (505) 266-5915; (505) 266-5916 fax 18 months of parole eligibility. The E-mail: [email protected] program includes work release with a Website: www.aclu-nm.org strong focus on reintegration and Services: No direct services to prisoners; deinstitutionalization. Distribute referrals only. Investigate complaints newsletters and kindness from the alleging that an indigent defendant Human Kindness Foundation. has not been appointed a Public

Defender. Refer complaints from NJAC’s Sanford Bates House penitentiary prisoners to the Address: 33 Remsen Avenue appropriate Public Defender office or New Brunswick, NJ 08901 to the prison compliance monitor in Phone: (732) 846-7220 Santa Fe. Refer prisoners looking for Services: Residential program for female state statutes or cases to the Prison pre-release prisoners. Services Research Staff at the UNM Law include individual, group and family Library. Check complaints regarding counseling, employment assistance, food, sanitation, medical treatment, substance-abuse counseling and mail, lawyer access and visiting financial counseling. Assist in the privileges for city and county jail transition from incarceration to living inmates. in the community. Residents pay house fees on a sliding scale. Coalition for Prisoners’ Rights

Contact: Mara Taub Address: 702 Franklin Ave.

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Santa Fe, NM 87505 1101 Lopez Road, S.W. Phone: (505) 982-9520; (505) 982-9520 fax Albuquerque, NM 87105 Services: Publish a national monthly Phone: (505) 877-7060; (505) 877-7063 fax newsletter. Provide information and E-mail: [email protected] referrals about prison support Website: www.pbjfamilyservices.org groups. Work to educate people Services: Provide a broad range of technical about prison-related issues. assistance, advocacy, training, Newsletter is free to prisoners; planning, and oversight on issues modest sliding-scale fee for others. involving women in prison and jails and the children of incarcerated Dismas House, Inc. parents. Contact: Peter Rinn Address: P.O. Box 6101 Protection and Advocacy System Albuquerque, NM 87197 Address: 1720 Louisiana Blvd. NE - #204 Phone: (505) 343-0746 Albuquerque, NM 87110 Fax: (505) 345-4513 Phone: (800) 432-4682; (505) 256-3184 fax Services: Transitional housing program for Service: Provide information and referrals; men and women who are parolees advocacy; negotiation or court action from New Mexico prisons. Room, on behalf of individuals and groups; board, utilities, laundry facilities and training regarding legal rights; unlimited local phone calls are benefits and assistance with other provided at an affordable cost for a disability issues. (In-state calls only.) maximum of 10 people at any given time. There is a multi-step admission process and a minimum 90-day

supervised stay. NEW YORK ACCESS/Argus Community Inc. Contact: Dianna Diaz FACES New Mexico/CURE Address: 760 East 160th Street Address: 1083 Mesa Loop NW Bronx, NY 10456 Los Lunas, NM 87031 Phone: (718) 401-5741; (718) 993-9662 fax Phone: (505) 865-7571 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Services: Intensive case management for HIV+ Services: Advocacy organization that works to persons, including ex-offenders and reduce crime through criminal-justice their families with or without reform and the rehabilitation of Medicaid. Provide referrals, escort to errants. appointments, and home visits. Can

work with prisoners with a 30-day New Mexico Public Defender Department, discharge date. Will work with parole, Post-Conviction Unit if clients agree/consent. Contact: Chris Bulman Address: 301 N. Guadalupe - #001 AIDS Related Community Services Santa Fe, NM 87501 Contact: Hugo Mendez Phone: (505) 827-3900 x146; (505) 476- Address: 473 Broadway 0273 fax Newburgh, NY 12550 Services: Provide court appointed Phone: (845) 562-5005; (845) 562-5212 fax representation services for AIDS-line: (800) 992-1442 conditions-of-confinement issues Website: www.arcs.org and substantive underlying case Services: Provide support groups, short-term challenges. counseling, AIDS crisis intervention,

comprehensive case-management New Mexico Women’s Justice Project services. Prison service initiative for Address: c/o Peanut Butter and Jelly, Inc. state correctional facilities. Jail

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services program for county Contact: Amy and George Oliveras correctional facilities. Referrals Address: P.O. Box 1314 available for medical, legal, dental, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 funeral, and other services. Will E-mail: [email protected] provide materials on current Website: www.bestweb.net/~cureny HIV/AIDS and updated medical Services: Educational and advocacy information. organization that works for criminal- justice reform and the rehabilitation Cephas Attica, Inc. of errants. Produce a quarterly Contact: Robert Miller newsletter focusing attention on New Address: 102 N. Union Street York criminal-justice issues. Rochester, NY 14607 Phone: (585) 546-7472; (585) 546-8579 fax Civil Rights Clinic E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Claudia Angelos Website: www.cephas.org Address: N.Y.U. Clinical Law Center Services: Provide group counseling in Attica, 245 Sullivan Street, 5th Floor Wyoming, Collins, Orleans, Albion, New York, NY 10012 Rochester, Gowanda, and State Phone: (212) 998-6430; (212) 995-4031 fax School for Youth at Industry prisons Services: In conjunction with a law school (13 groups weekly) and aid prisoner program, students handle an families. Post-release services extremely limited number of civil- include housing for parolees with a rights cases for New York State commitment to Cephas, Attica’s 90- prisoners incarcerated close to New day program. Also offer assistance York City. with educational opportunities, transportation, housing and job Fortune Society opportunities and substance-abuse Contact: Kristen Kidder aftercare. Available 24 hours a day Address: 53 W. 23rd Street, 8th Floor for counseling. New York, NY 10010 Phone: (212) 619-7554; (212) 255-4948 fax The Children’s Center Website: www.fortunesociety.org Contact: Sister Elaine Roulet Services: Ex-offender self-help organization Address: Bedford Hills Correctional Facility with a national membership of 247 Harris Road 30,000. Work with ex-offenders in Bedford Hills, NY 10507 the New York area. Offer one-on-one Phone: (914) 241-3100 x4050; x3199 fax counseling (ex-offender to Services: Offer a wide range of services to ex-offender); one-on-one tutoring; prisoner mothers and their children. job-training placement; tutoring in Programs include: foster-care preparation for the high school GED workshops, parenting classes, diploma; and outpatient substance- nursery, Infant Development Center, abuse services. No legal services. children’s advocacy, family literacy, Act as a referral agency for halfway seasonal and holiday activities, story houses, drug- or alcohol-addiction corner and transportation assistance. programs, and numerous other The Children’s Playroom is open social services. Conduct an every day of the year. Provide the alternatives-to-incarceration program Foster Care Handbook for and AIDS counseling. Publish Incarcerated Parents and Parenting Fortune News , free to prisoners upon from Inside/Out: The Voices of request. Mothers in Prison . Legal Action Center CURE New York Contact: Paralegal on Call

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Address: 225 Varick Street - 4 th Floor Contact: Arthur Eisenberg New York, NY 10014 Address: 125 Broad Street, 19th Floor Phone: (800) 223-4044; (212) 243-1313; New York, NY 10004 (212) 675-0286 fax Phone: (212) 607-3300; (212) 607-3318 fax E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nyclu.org Website: www.lac.org Services: Handle rare post-conviction and Services: Concerned primarily with habeas corpus cases, only if they employment, housing, and other raise new civil-liberties issues. Refer types of discrimination against ex- most prison issues to either the offenders, ex-addicts, ex-alcoholics, Prisoners’ Rights Project of Legal Aid and people with HIV. Provide law or Prisoners’ Legal Services of New libraries and pre-release centers in York. New York State facilities with a publication, How to Get and Clean The Osborne Association Up Your New York State Rap Sheet . Address: 809 Westchester Avenue Non-prisoners interested in receiving Bronx, NY 10455 this publication should contact the Phone: (718) 707-2600; (718) 707-3105 fax LAC. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.osborneny.org New York City Board of Correction Services: Operate model programs and Contact: Cathy Potler provide direct services to Address: 51 Chambers Street, Rm. 923 defendants, prisoners, ex-offenders New York, NY 10007 and their families in the South Bronx, Phone: (212) 788-7840; (212) 788-7860 fax Brooklyn, and Manhattan and at five Services: Evaluate the performance of the upstate prisons to those who qualify. Department of Correction, establish Do not provide direct legal services. and ensure compliance with Most programs require court minimum standards of confinement, referrals. Publications are available, health care, and mental-health care including literature on the effects of in all city correctional facilities. incarceration on children and Review prisoner and employee services available to HIV-positive grievances, investigate serious prisoners and parolees. incidents and make recommendations in critical areas of Ossining Prison Ministry, Inc. correctional planning. Contact: Marion Farrell Address: 34 S. Highland Avenue New York City Commission on Human Rights Ossining, NY 10562 Contact: Migdalia Agrait Phone: (914) 941-0540; (914) 941-3929 fax Address: 40 Rector Street, 10th Floor Services: Provide breakfast and supervised New York, NY 10006 childcare on Saturdays and Sundays Phone: (212) 306-5070 to visiting families and friends of Services: Advocate for the rights of city and prisoners at Sing Sing Prison. Some state prisoners, parolees, counseling is also provided and other ex-offenders, and their families. hospitality as needed. Respond to a wide range of medical complaints due to AIDS-related Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York discrimination within the criminal- Ithaca Central Intake justice system. Distribute AIDS Address: 114 Prospect Street discrimination brochures in English Ithaca, NY 14850 and Spanish, free. Website: www.plsny.org Services: Provide civil legal services to indigent New York CLU prisoners in New York State

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correctional facilities in cases where Prisoners’ Rights Project of the Legal Aid no other counsel is available. Handle Society cases involving disciplinary Address: 199 Water Street procedures, medical care, excessive New York, NY 10935 force, mental-health care, conditions Phone: (212) 577-3530; (212) 577-7957 fax of confinement, sentence Website: www.legal-aid.org computation, parole and jail-time Services: Primary work involves conditions-of- credit. Serve prisoners in Auburn, confinement litigation in federal Butler, Camp Georgetown, Camp court. Also provide referrals and offer Monterey, Camp Pharsalia, Cape information, advice, and various Vincent, Cayuga, Elmira, Five Points, forms and information packets to Southport, Watertown, and Willard. individual prisoners seeking information on their legal rights and PLS Albany remedies. Services limited to Contact: James Bogin prisoners in New York State prisons Address: 301 S. Allen Street and New York City jails. Albany, NY 12008 Phone: (518) 438-8046; Providence House, Inc. E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Monzura Rhue Services: Serve prisoners in Camp Mt. Address: 703 Lexington Avenue McGregor, Camp Summit, CNYPC, Brooklyn, NY 11221 Coxsackie, Great Meadow, Greene, Phone: (718) 455-0197; (718) 455-0692 fax Hale Creek, Hudson, Johnstown, Services: Provide transitional housing and Marcy, Mid-state, Mohawk, Oneida, support to homeless, abused and Walsh and Washington. formerly incarcerated women and their children. Residents are linked to PLS Buffalo support services in the community, Contact: Patricia Warth learn basic skills and receive help Address: Statler Towers obtaining permanent housing. 107 Delaware Avenue - #1360 Buffalo, NY 14202 Society of St. Vincent de Paul Phone: (716) 854-1007; (716) 854-1008 fax Contact: Dismas Committee Services: Serve prisoners in Albion, Attica, Address: 249 Broadway Buffalo, Collins, Gowanda, Bethpage, NY 11714 Groveland, Lakeview, Livingston, Phone: (516) 822-3132; (516) 822-2728 fax Orleans, Rochester, Wende, and E-mail: [email protected] Wyoming. Services: Provide bail assistance, transportation in emergencies and PLS Plattsburgh reasonable assurance of housing Contact: Michael Cassidy and emergency clothing. Services Address: 121 Bridge Street. - #202 are limited to Long Island residents Plattsburgh, NY 12901 who are returning to Long Island Phone: (518) 561-3088; (518) 561-3262 fax from prison and those incarcerated in E-mail: [email protected] Long Island. Services: Serve prisoners in Adirondack, Altona, Bare Hill, Camp Gabriels, Southern Tier AIDS Program Chateaugay, Clinton, Franklin, Address: 122 Baldwin Street Gouverneur, Lyon Mountain, Moriah, Johnson City, NY 13790 Ogdensburg, Riverview, and Phone: (607) 798-1706; (607) 798-1977 fax Upstate. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.stapinc.org

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Services: Provide group and individual support legal rights to representation in all group services, case management state and federal courts. Handle a upon release, educational programs variety of legal matters involving and materials for corrections officials prison conditions and criminal and parole officers. convictions. Write NCPLS for a brochure detailing which types of Women’s Prison Association and Home, Inc. cases receive top priority, providing Contact: Ann L. Jacobs information on how to request Address: 110 Second Avenue assistance from NCPLS, and listing New York, NY 10003 information packets and legal forms Phone: (212) 674-1163; (212) 677-1981 fax available to prisoners. Services: Assist women in making the transition from incarceration to Prison-Ashram Project independent living in the community Address: c/o Human Kindness Foundation through halfway houses, foster-care P.O. Box 61619 prevention and visitation advocacy, Durham, NC 27715 housing and job-placement Phone: (919) 383-5160; (919) 383-5140 fax assistance, vocational-training Website: www.humankindness.org programs, family and child welfare Services: Publish an interfaith spiritual programs, and substance-abuse newsletter and distribute some free programs. Emphasize self-reliance books. Publications discuss the through independent living-skills foundation of self-honesty, courage, development, self-empowerment, kindness, humor, and wonder. peer support, and client involvement in the community. Strive to increase Summit House, Inc. public awareness of and support for Contact: Raymond Matz effective, community-based Address: 122 N. Elm Street - #910 responses to crime. Greensboro, NC 27403 Phone: (336) 691-9888; (336) 275-5042 fax E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.summithouse.org NORTH CAROLINA Services: Summit House is an alternative ACLU of North Carolina correctional facility that helps non- Contact: Katherine Lewis Parker violent female offenders and their Address: P.O. Box 28004 children under 7. The intensive Raleigh, NC 27611 residential program focuses on Phone: (919) 834-3390; (919) 828-3265 fax rehabilitation, teaching responsible E-mail: [email protected] citizenship, respect for the law, Website: www.acluofnorthcarolina.org behavior modification, and life-skills Services: Handle habeas corpus and prison- training. Strict guidelines and a point conditions cases. Provide direct system regulate the residents’ daily referrals, including referrals for lives, but also allow them to make damage suits. choices. A team of case managers is present 24 hours a day. During their North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc. stay, residents are expected to earn Contact: Brenda Richardson a GED, if not a high school graduate; Address: P.O. Box 25397 attend college or other vocational Raleigh, NC 27611-5397 training; participate in substance- Phone: (919) 856-2200 abuse counseling and skills-training Website: www.ncpls.org programs; obtain employment; Services: Legal services to North Carolina achieve independent living prisoners only. Provide a range of arrangements with their children; and services from advice about prisoners’

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be cooperative and involved Cincinnati, OH 45219 members of the house. Information Website: www.freewebs.com/books4prisoners brochures are available upon Services: An all-volunteer group providing free request. progressive political and educational material to prisoners. Only have services available in Ohio, Indiana NORTH DAKOTA and 4 state facilities in Texas (Lane Murray Unit, Ramsey I Unit, ACLU of the Dakotas Gatesville Unit, and Polunsky Unit). Contact: Jennifer Ring Prisoners are limited to two books, Address: 112 North University Drive - #301 postage included, every six months. Fargo, ND 58102

Phone: (701) 461-7290; (701) 461-7291 fax CURE Ohio E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Kunta Kenyatta Website: www.acludakotas.org Address: P.O. Box 14080

Columbus, OH 43214 Phone: (937) 299-8298; (614) 784-9696 fax OHIO Website: http://cureohio.us/ AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati Services: Provide a legislative voice for Ohio Contact: Victoria Brooks prisoners and their families. Talk to Address: 220 Findlay legislators, public officials, and the Cincinnati, OH 45202 general public about the need for Phone: (513) 421-2437; (513) 421-0301 fax criminal-justice reform. Publish a Website: www.avoc.org bimonthly newsletter, Against All Services: Services include an AIDS information Odds . and referral line; a buddy program; and support groups for HIV-positive Columbus AIDS Task Force persons and their families. Provide Contact: Peggy Anderson case management, support groups, Address: 1751 East Long Street forums, financial counseling, Columbus, OH 43212 transportation, advocacy, and home- Phone: (614) 299-2437; (614) 291-7162 fax health-care coordination. Assistance Hotline: (800) 332-2437 with chemical- and alcohol- Website: www.catf.net dependency referrals, crisis Services: Offer education about AIDS intervention, and prevention. transmission and prevention for pre-release prisoners, prisoners in ACLU of Ohio drug-treatment programs, and Contact: Jeff Gamso prisoners in programs for sex Address: 4506 Chester Avenue offenders (upon request from state Cleveland, OH 44103 institutions). Upon release, Phone: (216) 472-2200; (216) 472-2210 fax ex-offenders with AIDS may become E-mail: [email protected] CATF clients. Client services include Website: www.acluohio.org support groups for clients and their Services: Review complaints about prison and families, legal and medical referrals, jail conditions. For state prison and a buddy program. Distribute a complaints, prisoner is asked to file a wide variety of literature about grievance and appeal and send the HIV/AIDS for all ages. Operate response if s/he is dissatisfied with it. statewide toll-free hotline. Hotline for hearing impaired is (800) DEAF-TTY. Books 4 Prisoners Contact: The Books 4 Prisoners Crew Community Connection for Ohio Offenders, Address: P.O. Box 19065 Inc.

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Contact: Ginger Cermelj substance-abuse treatment, housing Address: P.O. Box 341347 information, creative-writing groups, Columbus, OH 43234 temporary transportation, and case- Phone: (614) 760-1902; (614) 760-1908 fax management and counseling Website: www.communityconnectionohio.com services at Cuyahoga County Jail. Services: Provide an overall support network for offenders and ex-offenders to help them be responsible, OKLAHOMA contributing members of society. ACLU of Oklahoma Educate the community to support Contact: Tina Izadi and nurture this target population Address: 3000 Paseo Drive and educate clients to successfully Oklahoma City, OK 73103 return to the community. Provide a Phone: (405) 524-8511; (405) 524-2296 fax Community Connection Program E-mail: [email protected] brochure and a packet listing Website: www.acluok.org services available in the state of Services: Handle prison-conditions cases and Ohio. civil-liberties violations. Provide

limited referrals. Do not provide Ohio Justice and Policy Center post-conviction assistance or Address: 215 E. 9 th Street - 6 th Floor research services to prisoners. Cincinnati, OH 45202

Phone: (513) 421-1108; (513) 562-3200 fax Oklahoma CURE E-mail: [email protected] Address: P.O. Box 9741 Website: www.ohiojpc.org Tulsa, OK 74157-0741 Services: Educate and assist Ohio prisoners Phone: (918) 744-9857 (and fax) with use of grievance and E-mail: [email protected] administrative remedies to solve Website: www.home.earthlink.net/~okcure complaints dealing with conditions of Services: Advocacy organization that works to confinement and protect prisoner reduce crime through criminal-justice rights under the PLRA and Ohio H.B. reform and the rehabilitation of 455. Help prisoners’ families errants. understand prison procedures and

their rights as family members. Also litigate on significant prisoner rights OREGON issues and run an empowerment ACLU of Oregon program for Ohio incarcerated Contact: David Fidanque women. Address: P.O. Box 40585 Portland, OR 97204-0585 Women’s Re-Entry Resource Network Phone: (503) 227-3186; (503) 227-6948 fax Contact: Mary Kozina E-mail: [email protected] Address: 1468 West 25th Street Website: www.aclu-or.org Cleveland, OH 44113 Services: Handle limited post-conviction, Phone: (216) 696-7535; (216) 658-4727 fax habeas corpus, and prison- Services: Provide mental-health services, conditions cases. Direct referrals are parenting classes, support services provided to agencies but not to for children, job-readiness and private attorneys. This office has no placement assistance, educational staff attorneys. assistance, legal assistance, onsite baby sitting during groups and Community Court Project classes, specialized services for Multnomah County Adult Community Justice Welfare-to-Work participants, District Offices clothing assistance, referrals for Address: 421 Southwest Fifth Avenue - #600

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Portland, OR 97204 Hepatitis C (HCV) Prison Support Project Phone: (503) 988-3007; (503) 988-4574 fax Contact: Phyllis Beck Services: By collaborating with citizens, law Address: P.O. Box 41803 enforcement, court and social- Eugene, OR 97404 service agencies, the Community Phone: (541) 607-5725; (541) 607-5684 fax Court Project encourages E-mail: [email protected] defendants to contribute positively to Website: www.hcvinprison.org their community through community- Services: Educate prisoners and advocate for service projects and offers them better testing, diagnosis, and social-service assistance to address prevention of Hepatitis and HIV/HCV underlying problems that can lead to co-infection. Distribute bimonthly criminal behavior. newsletter and Hepatitis C, HIV/HCV co-infection packets free to Better People prisoners. Contact: Clariner Boston Address: 4310 NE MLK, Jr. Boulevard Legislative Commission on Indian Services Portland, OR 97211 Address: 900 Court Street, NE - #167 Phone: (503) 281-2663; (503) 281-2667 fax Salem, OR 97301 Website: www.betterpeople.org Phone: (503) 986-1067; (503) 986-1071 fax Services: A living-wage employment and Email: [email protected] counseling program for adult Website: www.leg.state.or.us/cis offenders. Services: The state regulated office to aid in legislative issues dealing with Tribe Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJC) and Nation peoples. Northwest Regional Office Address: Western Oregon University Multnomah County Legal Aid HHS 223A Address: 700 SW Washington - #500 345 N. Monmouth Portland, OR 97205 Monmouth, OR 97361 Phone: (503) 224-4086; (503) 295-9496 fax Phone: (503) 838-8401 Website: www.oregonlawhelp.org Services: Promote balanced and humane Services: Assist residents in family law, public criminal-justice policies that reduce benefits, landlord tenants, and other incarceration and promote long-term civil matters. public safety for juveniles, through the development of model programs, Oregon CURE technical assistance, research/policy Address: 1631 NE Broadway - #460 analysis, and public education. Portland, OR 97232 Phone: (866) 357-2873 Federal Public Defender, District of Oregon Website: www.oregoncure.org Portland (Main) Office Services: Advocacy organization that works to Address: 101 SW Main Street - #1700 reduce crime through criminal-justice Portland, OR 97204 reform and the rehabilitation of Phone: (503) 326-2123; (503) 326-5524 fax errants. Eugene Office Address: 151 W. 7th Street - #510 Oregon Office of the Governor Eugene, OR 97401 Address: Citizens’ Representative Office Phone: (541) 465-6937; (541) 465-6975 fax Office of the Governor Medford Office 900 Court Street NE Address: 15 Newton Street Salem, OR 97301 Medford, OR 97501 Phone: (503) 378-4582; (503) 378-6827 fax Phone: (541) 776-3630; (541) 776-3624 fax Services: Handle issues that come to the Governor’s Office dealing with

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corrections, board of parole, post- Services: Provide a range of legal services, prison supervision, and other law- including information on enforcement areas. compassionate release and referrals to community-based organizations Oregon State Public Defender for prisoners living with HIV/AIDS. Contact: Peter Gartlan Publish AIDS and the Law: Your Address: 1320 Capitol Street, NE - #200 Rights in Pennsylvania , available Salem, OR 97301-7869 free to prisoners and low-income Phone: (503) 378-3349 or (503) 378-2371 residents. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.opds.state.or.us ACLU of Pennsylvania Services: Handle direct criminal appeals for Contact: Vic Walczak indigent defendants convicted of Address: P.O. Box 40008 felonies in state circuit courts; Philadelphia, PA 19106 misdemeanors in state district courts Phone: (215) 592-1513; (215) 592-1343 fax and parole appeals, together with E-mail: [email protected] parole set appeals. Website: www.aclupa.org Services: Primarily provide direct referrals. Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Occasionally handle habeas corpus Penalty and prison-conditions cases. Address: P.O. Box 361 Portland, OR 97207-0361 ACLU of Pennsylvania, Greater Pittsburgh Phone: (503) 236-1686 Chapter E-mail: [email protected] Address: 313 Atwood Street Website: www.oadp.org Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Services: Criminal-justice activists joined in a Phone: (412) 681-7736; (412) 681-8707 fax concerted effort to increase the E-mail: [email protected] effectiveness of Oregon’s response Website: www.pgh.aclu.org to violent interpersonal crime. Our Services: Handle prison-conditions cases and members include victims, survivors, provide referrals. attorneys, religious leaders, teachers and other concerned citizens. OADP BEBASHI works toward repeal of the death Contact: Ebony Davis penalty; support life sentence Address: 1217 Spring Garden Street, 1st Floor alternatives in response to Philadelphia, PA 19123 aggravated murder as effective and Phone: (215) 769-3561, x132; (215) 769- sufficient; promote research, 3860 fax education and discussion of issues Website: www.bebashi.org relating to the death penalty; work to Services: Provide discharge-planning and promote principles of restorative case-management services to HIV+ justice for all those affected by prisoners in Pennsylvania State murder, including victims’ family Correction Institutions. Assist with members, prisoners and prisoners’ housing, medical and behavioral families. health care, public benefits, and support in re-entry. Limited to HIV+ prisoners who are returning to PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia County upon release. AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania Furnish agency brochures and Contact: Rhonda Goldfein discharge planning forms upon Address: 1211 Chestnut Street - #600 request. Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: (215) 587-9377; (215) 587-9902 fax Centre Peace, Inc.

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Contact: Tom Brewster Address: 1441 Samson Street Address: 3013 Benner Pike Philadelphia, PA 19102 Bellefonte, PA 16823-8303 Phone: (215) 568-3190; (215) 988-0208 fax Phone: (814) 353-9081; (814) 353-9083 fax Services: Represent indigent adults and E-mail: [email protected] juveniles in criminal cases for which Website: www.centrepeace.org Association is appointed as counsel Services: Run Prayer-Mate Program. Prisoners by the courts. and community members communicate by mail through this Lewisburg Prison Project, Inc. office on a first-name-only basis. Address: P.O. Box 128 Provide SCI-Rockview family- Lewisburg, PA 17837 visitation assistance for PA Phone: (570) 523-1104; (570) 523-3944 fax prisoners, corrections personnel, and E-mail: [email protected] community. We pay half the cost of Website: www.eg.bucknell.edu/~mligare/LPP transportation to Rockview Prison in .html Bellefonte, PA. Run conflict- Services: Provide direct civil legal services resolution training that teaches non- without charge to indigent prisoners violent resolution of conflicts and who are victims of crime or abuse, or introduction to mediation. Organize who have been denied their PA Prison Runathon—prisoners run constitutional rights due to their a marathon to raise funds for conditions of confinement. Serve alternatives to incarceration of youth. prisoners in the Middle District of Publish Criminal Justice Advocacy Pennsylvania, including 2 Federal and Support Directory , free for PA Corrections Complexes, 11 State prisoners, victims, and their families. Prisons, and 34 County Jails. Offer a number of publications distributed Community Justice Project nationwide of specific interest to Contact: Donald Driscoll prisoners. Contact the LPP for their Address: 1705 Allegheny Building most recent list of manuals and Pittsburgh, PA 15219 bulletins on prisoner rights and pro Phone: (412) 434-6002 se litigation. Cannot provide legal services by mail; assist with criminal Concerned Seniors/Gray Panthers of law, sentencing law, or divorce; Graterford forward anything to other prisoners; Contact: Dr. Julia Hall or find citations, review briefs, or Address: Drexel University make copies. Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: (215) 895-2472; (215) 895-1333 fax Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Angus Love Services: Advocate for Address: 718 Arch Street incarcerated in Pennsylvania prisons Suite 304 South and jails. Provide information, Philadelphia, PA 19106 advocacy, external contacts and Phone: (215) 925-2966; (215) 925-5337 fax opportunities to prepare for return to Website: www.pailp.org the community. Medical, legal, Services: Represent prisoners on prison- financial and family experts conditions issues and a full range of frequently serve as guest speakers civil services. Assistance provided to to the group. Services are limited to prisoners in the federal, state, or the State Correctional Institute at county jails throughout the Graterford in Pennsylvania. Commonwealth. Distribute various self-help publications regarding Defender Association of Philadelphia disciplinary actions, political asylum,

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name change, and a report of placement. Operate the Program leading cases in 3rd Circuit Court of Center, a work-release center that Appeals, as well as a local referral functions as an alternative program guide. to serving time in the Allegheny County Jail. Pennsylvania Prison Society Contact: William DiMascio The Program for Female Offenders, Inc., Address: 245 N. Broad Street - #300 Greater Harrisburg Office Philadelphia, PA 19107-1518 Contact: Valerie G. Simmons Phone: (215) 564-6005; (215) 564-7926 fax Address: 1515 Derry Street E-mail: [email protected] Harrisburg, PA 17104 Website: www.prisonsociety.org Phone: (717) 238-9950; (717) 236-3585 fax Services: Provide support for prisoners while Services: Work with women who are on incarcerated and upon return to the probation or parole or who have ever community, in addition to providing been in trouble with the law. Provide services for their families. The Re- ongoing support in the areas of Entry Services Program (RESP) counseling, HIV/AIDS prevention, assists former offenders with life and parole planning, career education, employment skills to become mentoring, workshops, referrals, and productive members of their job placement. Operate the communities. The Services to Elderly Woodside Family Center, which Inmates (STEP) provides case- functions as an alternative program management and direct services for to serving time in the Dauphin aging prisoners in state prisons. The County Prison. Inmate Family Services (IFS) program teaches parenting skills to Program for Women and Families individuals incarcerated throughout Contact: Dr. Joyce Dougherty the state. The IFS facilitates Support Address: 1030 Walnut Street of Kids with Incarcerated Parents Allentown, PA 18102 (SKIP), a support group for children Phone: (610) 433-6556; (610) 433-1983 fax between the ages of 8-12 years. The E-mail: [email protected] Virtual Visitation program offers Website: www.thepwf.org prisoners and their families the Services: Work exclusively with women opportunity to visit via teleconference offenders at the local level. Provide when distance prevents families from employment counseling, housing traveling to visit loved ones. Staff and counseling, individual and group volunteers operate the family counseling, case management, resource center at the State parenting classes, and HIV/AIDS Correctional Institution at Graterford. prevention programs. Also operate a small transitional residence. The Program for Female Offenders, Inc. Contact: Carol Hertz Project IMPACT Address: 100 N. Braddock Ave. Contact: Rhonda Hummel or David Deibler- Pittsburgh, PA 15208 Gorman Phone: (412) 281-7380; (412) 642-9118 fax Address: S.C.I. Muncy E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 180 Services: Work with women who are on Muncy, PA 17756 probation or parole or who have ever Phone: (570) 546-3171 x419 or x420 been in trouble with the law. Provide Services: Run a children’s center at SCI-Muncy ongoing support in the areas of where prisoners can spend individual counseling, parole planning, career, time with their children. Project workshops, referrals and job IMPACT also offers activity

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workshops, prenatal classes and parenting support groups. Provide a workbook for incarcerated parents RHODE ISLAND written by staff, professionals and ACLU of Rhode Island prisoners at SCI-Muncy, called I Contact: Steven Brown Love You This Much . The workbook Address: 128 Dorrance Street - #220 provides parents with ideas and Providence, RI 02903 suggestions for actively staying part Phone: (401) 831-7171; (401) 831-7175 fax of their children’s lives despite the E-mail: [email protected] physical separation. Cost is $5 plus Website: www.riaclu.org $2 s/h. Write for an order form. Services: Provide limited assistance to Services are limited to prisoners at prisoners. Services are restricted to SCI-Muncy. post-conviction, habeas corpus,

prison conditions, and direct Urban League Employment Program referrals. Especially concerned with Contact: David Tugume prison problems that raise significant Address: 502 S. Duke Street First Amendment or due process Lancaster, PA 17602 issues. Phone: (717) 394-1966: (717) 295-5044 fax

Services: Provide job-search workshops,

individualized job-search assistance, counseling, and follow-up SOUTH CAROLINA employment services. Also, offer a ACLU of South Carolina free job-listing service for employers. Contact: Valerie Shannon Address: 2712 Middleburg Drive - #104 WWW.Prisoners.com Columbia, SC 29204 Contact: Sandra Feigley Phone: (803) 799-5151; (803) 254-7374 fax Address: P.O. Box 5251 E-mail: [email protected] Harrisburg, PA 17110 Website: www.aclusc.org Phone: (717) 236-6045 Services: Provide limited assistance to Website: www.prisoners.com prisoners. Services are restricted to Services: Present prison-related issues to the post-conviction, habeas corpus, world through our website and prison conditions, and direct present prisoner issues to referrals. Pennsylvania legislators. Alston Wilkes Society Contact: S. Anne Walker PUERTO RICO Address: 3519 Medical Drive ACLU of Puerto Rico Columbia, SC 29203 Phone: (803) 799-2490; (803) 540-7223 fax Contact: William Ramirez, Esq. E-mail: [email protected] Address: Union Plaza Building - #205 Website: www.alstonwilkessociety.org 416 Avenida Ponce de Leon Services: Statewide social-service organization San Juan, PR 00918 that provides a broad range of direct Phone: (787) 753-8493; (787) 753-4268 fax services and referral assistance to E-mail: [email protected] offenders, ex-offenders and their Services: Provide limited assistance to immediate families. Provide prisoners. Services are restricted to assistance to prisoners regarding general counseling and direct parole and release planning, as well referrals. Provide advocacy against as advocacy and legislative services. the death penalty and work in Operate halfway houses for adult coalition with local prison-advocacy offenders, group homes for organizations.

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emotionally disturbed juveniles, and available. Reservations are required. a facility for homeless male veterans. For ex-offenders looking to relocate, Provide public information and contact the Tennessee Board of educational programs to citizens of Probation and Parole. Offer a weekly South Carolina, and provide a range support group for adults with loved of volunteer services to adults and ones in prison. Provide advocacy for juveniles. Accept out-of-state families, information, and referrals. referrals of residents of South Offer publications of interest to Carolina and of probationers under prisoners and their families: jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Separate Prisons Newsletter , Prisons. available free; Handbook for Families and Friends of Tennessee Prisoners , contact office for cost; Two in Every SOUTH DAKOTA 100 , a workbook for young children ACLU of the Dakotas with a parent in prison, contact office for cost. Parole packets with Contact: Jennifer Ring information about preparing for Address: Manchester Building parole in Tennessee are $8. 112 N. University Drive - #301

Fargo, ND 58102-4661 Phone: (701) 461-7290: (701) 461-7291 fax Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing E-mail: [email protected] Address: Box 120552 Nashville, TN 37212 Phone: (615) 256-3906 E-mail: [email protected] TENNESSEE Website: www.tcask.org ACLU of Tennessee Services: Coordinate legislative and Contact: Melody Fowler-Green community opposition to the death Address: P.O. Box 120160 penalty. Publish quarterly newsletter, Nashville, TN 37212 Tennessee Lifelines , free to Phone: (615) 320-7142 Tennessee death-row prisoners. Website: www.aclu-tn.org Services: Handle habeas corpus, if a civil- rights question is involved, and TEXAS prison- and jail-conditions cases. Provide direct referrals and legal ACLU of Texas assistance regarding discrimination Contact: Lisa Graybill based on AIDS/HIV. Address: P.O. Box 12905 Austin, TX 78711-2905 Reconciliation Ministries, Inc. Phone: (512) 478-7309; (512) 478-7303 fax Contact: Alice Arceneaux E-mail: [email protected] Address: 702 51st Avenue North Website: www.aclutx.org Nashville, TN 37209 Services: Handle city, county, state and federal Phone: (615) 292-6371; (615) 292-6383 fax prison-conditions cases. E-mail: [email protected] Services: We only respond to requests relating Dallas County Jail Programs Division to Tennessee prisoners. Provide a Contact: Jim Strickland guesthouse for families coming to Address: 133 N. Industrial Boulevard, LB31 Nashville to visit a prisoner in a Dallas, TX 75207 Middle Tennessee correctional Phone: (214) 653-2837; (214) 653-2832 fax facility. Accommodations are free to Services: Coordinate education courses visiting families and some (literacy and GED through transportation assistance is community college), recreation, library, and substance-abuse

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programs for prisoners within the Services: Offer housing, food, clothing, and the Dallas County Jail system. Assist in introduction to recovery as described referrals to outside community by AA guidelines. Provide a safe agencies for released prisoners. place to live for prisoners, HIV- infected individuals, and women. FIND-CURE (Furnishing Imprisoned Non- Affiliated with Dallas’s court system, Citizens with Direction) we frequently accompany offenders Contact: Dr. Luis Payan to court and testify to their program Address: 705 Mississippi Avenue adherence. Also offer a mentoring El Paso, TX 79902 program, GED assistance, life-skills, Phone: (915) 747-7985 family and marital counseling, and a E-mail: [email protected] recovery support group. Assist parolees in establishing a home in a Texas CURE structured drug-free environment. Address: 4121 Burning Tree Lane Distribute a free client brochure on Garland, TX 75042 agency specifics. Phone: (972) 276-9865 E-mail: [email protected] Texas Advocacy Project, Inc. Website: www.txcure.org Contact: Andrea Sloane Services: Provide referrals and information, no Address: P.O. Box 833 legal assistance. Organize prisoners, Austin, TX 78767-0833 their families and other concerned Phone: (512) 476-5377; (800) 777-3247 (toll- citizens to achieve reforms in the free) Texas criminal-justice system. E-mail: [email protected] Publish a quarterly newsletter, News Website: www.women-law.org & Notes , free to Texas prisoners and Services: Provide free legal assistance for any Texas CURE members contributing victim of violence or sexual assault in $10 or more. Texas.

Texas Inmates Families Association (TIFA) Address: P.O. Box 300220 UTAH Austin, TX 78703-0004 ACLU of Utah Phone: (512) 371-0900 Contact: Margaret Plane E-mail: [email protected] Address: 355 North 300 W - #1 Website: www.tifa.org Salt Lake City, UT 84103 Services: Advocacy organization for families Phone: (801) 521-9289; (801) 532-2850 fax with incarcerated loved ones. Help E-mail: [email protected] families help their incarcerated family Website: www.acluutah.org members with conditions issues, Services: Review complaints resulting in such as medical care, abuse, and systemic violations of prisoner rights. violence. Provide educational and Monthly meetings with prison officials other information. Advocate for to resolve ongoing problems; legislative and criminal justice reform medical care, mental health, and and public awareness. general conditions.

Welcome House, Inc. Prisoner Information Network (PIN) Contact: Jackie Thompson Contact: Marianne Johnstone Address: 921 N. Peak Street Address: P.O. Box 165171 Dallas, TX 75204 Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Phone: (214) 887-0696; (214) 827-9582 fax Phone: (801) 355-0234; (801) 521-6282 fax E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

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Services: A resource for prisoners and their Catholic Mass and other Church families in Utah. Provide hygiene kits services. Ensure that each prisoner to prisoners being released in Utah. receives a Christmas gift—i.e. , Hold monthly outreach meetings and socks, shampoo, writing paper, etc. publish newsletter, Behind the Wire . Furnish clothing whenever possible Also publish the Utah Prisoner to needy prisoners. Assist ex- Resource Guide , $4 for prisoners offenders with employment and and $10 for people in the free world. housing assistance.

VERMONT VIRGINIA ACLU of Vermont AIDS/HIV Services Group Contact: Laura Philipps Contact: Bruce Taylor Address: 137 Elm Street Address: P.O. Box 2322 Montpelier, VT 05602 Charlottesville, VA 22902 Phone: (802) 223-6304; (802) 233-6304 fax Phone: (434) 979-7714; (434) 979-8734 fax E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.acluvt.org Website: www.aidsservices.org Services: Handle post-conviction cases Services: Offer services to individuals with involving civil-liberties issues; limited HIV/AIDS who are in the local jail, prison-conditions cases; damage including emotional support, suits (no fees). Provide direct information packets, and assistance referrals. Services limited to Vermont with post-release planning— prisoners, residents, and prisoners housing, employment, etc. Also offer transferred to other states. supportive services to family members and friends of individuals Prisoners’ Rights Office with HIV/AIDS who are incarcerated. Contact: Dawn Seibert Address: 6 Baldwin Street - 4 th Floor ACLU of Virginia Montpelier, VT 05633 Contact: Rebecca Glenberg Phone: (802) 828-3194; (802) 828-3163 fax Address: 530 East Main Street - #310 Website: www.defgen.state.vt.us Richmond, VA 23219 Services: Handle limited civil-rights actions, Phone: (804) 644-8022; (804) 649-2733 fax post-conviction relief, habeas corpus E-mail: [email protected] and prison-conditions cases; direct Website: www.acluva.org referrals; parole revocation; and Services: Handle select litigation limited to prison disciplinary matters. Only state prison facilities and county jails. assist Vermont prisoners charged with Vermont crimes. Assisting Families of Inmates Contact: Fran Bolin Vermont Catholic Charities, Inc. Address: 1 N. 5th Street - #400 Address: 351 North Avenue Richmond, VA 23219 Burlington, VT 05401 Phone: (804) 643-2401; (804) 643-2464 fax Phone: (802) 658-6110 x312; (802) 860- E-mail: [email protected] 0451 fax Website: www.afoi.org E-mail: [email protected] Services: Provide visiting-day transportation for Services: Provide one-on-one pastoral families and friends of state counseling, family visitation, prisoners between Richmond and prisoner-supervised passes, and most major state prisons (goes to 30 referral services. Services are limited facilities). Provide information and to Vermont offenders, ex-offenders referrals for community resources and their families. Also provide that assist families and provide

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chaperones to accompany children assistance for offenders and on visits with incarcerated mothers. families. Collaborate with CIS to run a school- based counseling program for Offender Aid and Restoration of Richmond, children of incarcerated parents, Inc. called Milk and Cookies . Cooperate Contact: Barbara Slayden with United Methodist Church to Address: 1 N. 3rd Street - #200 recruit and enroll eligible children for Richmond, VA 23219 the All God’s Children summer Phone: (804) 643-2746; (804) 643-1187 fax camp. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.oarric.org The Beautiful Struggle Services: Post-release services are provided to Contact: Billie Jones inmates released from a jail in the Address: P.O. Box 223152 greater Richmond area and inmates Chantilly, VA 20153 from a state or federal prison Phone: (703) 361-4645 returning to the Richmond area. A E-mail: thebeautifulstruggle@ Post-Release Services Client Guide yahoogroups.com is available free through the mail to Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ inmates requesting information. thebeautifulstruggle Services: Advocacy to change society’s Opportunities, Alternatives & Resources of perception of how prisoners are Fairfax County, Inc. viewed. Address: 10640 Page Avenue - #250 Fairfax, VA 22030-4000 Offender Aid and Restoration of Arlington Phone: (703) 246-3033; (703) 273-7554 fax County E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Transition Advisor Website: www.oarfairfax.org Address: 1400 N. Uhle Street - #704 Services: Provide referrals to community Arlington, VA 22201 resources, employment and Phone: (703) 228-7030; (703) 228-3981 fax vocational guidance, one-on-one E-mail: [email protected] volunteers (prisoner visitation) at Website: www.oaronline.org Fairfax County Adult Detention Services: Provide support, emergency Center and emergency assistance assistance, identification, direct for ex-offenders to obtain food, referrals, and planning for transition clothing and temporary housing. into the community. Prepare clients Family assistance services include: to obtain and maintain suitable family support group, one-on-one employment. Limited to residents of counseling (by appointment), Arlington County, City of Alexandria, emergency assistance to obtain and City of Falls Church. food, clothing and temporary housing and Saturday Friends, a support Offender Aid and Restoration of group for children of offenders and Charlottesville/ Albemarle the children’s main care givers. Contact: Patricia Smith Assistance available only for Fairfax Address: 750 Harris Street - #207 County residents and ex-offenders Charlottesville, VA 22903 from Fairfax County returning from Phone: (434) 296-2441; (434) 979-4038 fax state correctional institutions. Limited E-mail: [email protected] resources also available to residents Services: Offer pretrial services, supervision of and ex-offenders in Loudon and community service and restitution, Prince William Counties. job assistance, and emergency

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Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center Columbia Legal Service Contact: Rob Lee Contact: Beth Colgan Address: 2421 Ivy Road - #301 Address: 101 Yesler Way - #301 Charlottesville, VA 22903 Seattle, WA 98104 Phone: (434) 817-2970; (434) 817-2972 fax Phone: (206) 382-3399 (collect) or (206) E-mail: [email protected] 464-0838; (206) 464-0856 fax Services: Provide expert legal consultative Services: Handle conditions-of-confinement services to attorneys and law firms and civil-rights claims. that represent death-sentenced prisoners in Virginia. Law Office of Leta J. Schattauer Contact: Leta J. Schattauer Virginia CURE Address: 705 Second Avenue - #1300 Address: P.O. Box 19307 Seattle, WA 98104 Alexandria, VA 22320-0307 Phone: (206) 623-0366; (206) 623-2186 fax Phone: (703) 765-6549; (703) 765-6549 fax Services: Represent Washington State E-mail: [email protected], prisoners in post-conviction matters [email protected] in State and Federal court. Provide Website: www.vacure.org representation before the ISRB Services: All-volunteer membership (parole board), the Clemency Board, organization. Provide referrals, public and other institutional administrative information and education on the bodies. Also represent sexual criminal-justice system, and prison predators facing civil commitment and criminal-justice-reform and/or release to the community. advocacy. Network with state legislature, prisoner family-support Spokane County Public Defender groups, religious leaders, and Contact: John Rodgers administrative agencies that deal Address: 1033 W. Gardner with prison and criminal justice Spokane, WA 99260-0280 issues. Publish infrequent newsletter Phone: (509) 477-4246; (509) 477-2567 fax on Virginia prison issues, Inside Out . Services: By court appointment only, handle Dues: $2 (or 6 stamps) prisoners; adult felony, juvenile felony and $15 individuals; $25 family; $50 misdemeanor and county supporter; $150 life misdemeanor crimes. Also handle member/organization; $250 civil commitments and juvenile benefactor. dependency cases.

WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA ACLU of Washington ACLU of West Virginia Contact: Julya Hampton Address: P.O. Box 3952 Address: 705 Second Avenue - #300 Charleston, WV 25339-3952 Seattle, WA 98104-1799 Phone: (304) 345-9246; (304) 345-9262 fax Phone: (206) 624-2180; (206) 624-2190 fax E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.acluwv.org Website: www.aclu-wa.org Services: Handle complaints on a very limited Services: Handle complaints, on a limited basis, regarding jail and prison basis, regarding jail and prison conditions. conditions and treatment of prisoners (depending on available staff Alderson Hospitality House resources). No post-conviction Contact: Rebecca or David King appeals. Address: P.O. Box 579

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Alderson, WV 24910 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (304) 445-2980 Website: www.horizonshouse.org Services: Provide free lodging, meals, Services: Provide alternatives to incarceration transportation and support to families (halfway house) for women. and loved ones visiting women incarcerated in Alderson Federal Madison-area Urban Ministry Prison Camp. Publish free quarterly Contact: Jackie Austin, Program Coordinator newsletter, The Trumpet. Donations Address: 2300 South Park Street - #5 are accepted. Madison, WI 53713 Phone: (608) 256-0906; (608) 256-4387 (fax) E-mail: [email protected] WISCONSIN Website: www.emum.org Services: Work on issues of affordable ACLU of Wisconsin housing, re-entry of formerly Contact: Lawrence Dupuis incarcerated people, healthy Address: 207 East Buffalo Street - #325 neighborhoods, and mentoring Milwaukee, WI 53202 children who have an incarcerated Phone: (414) 272-4032 x16; (414) 272-0182 parent. fax

E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.aclu-wi.org Project RETURN Services: Do limited prison-conditions work. Contact: Wendel Hruska Prefer cases that involve Address: 2821 N. 4th Street - #202 constitutional issues and that may Milwaukee, WI 53212 have a broad enough impact to Phone: (414) 374-8029; (414) 374-8033 fax succeed in changing legislation or E-mail: [email protected] administrative remedies. Website: www.projectreturnmilwaukee.org Services: Assist people leaving prison with finding permanent family-supporting AIDS Network jobs and affordable housing, while Contact: Jenny Shaffer remaining drug-free. Affirm and Address: 600 Williamson Street challenge ex-offenders to become Madison, WI 53703 productive Milwaukeeans. Phone: (608) 252-6540; (800) 486-6276; (608) 252-6559 fax E-mail: [email protected] Wisconsin Community Services Inc. Services: Provide information, referrals and Contact: Stephen Swigart advocacy by mail, and when Address: 3732 W. Wisconsin Avenue - #200 permitted, by phone and visits. Assist Milwaukee, WI 53208 in obtaining medical care, AODA Phone: (414) 290-0400; (414) 271-4605 fax treatment and housing. Educate E-mail: [email protected] prisoners’ attorneys on possible Website: www.wiscs.org effect of HIV infection on a client’s Services: Operate community and alternative case. Services are limited to programs for offenders, including prisoners in county, state or federal adult and juvenile halfway houses, a correctional facilities within South pretrial-release program, court Central Wisconsin. A newsletter is intervention, alcohol/drug and available. mental-health services, a home- detention program, mediation Horizon, Inc. services and a Parents Support and Contact: Constance Shaver Advocate Program. Address: 2511 W. Vine Street Milwaukee, WI 53205 Wisconsin CURE Phone: (414) 342-3237; (414) 342-3258 fax Contact: Kathleen Hart

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Address: P.O. Box 183 Greendale, WI 53129 Phone: (414) 384-1000 x32 E-mail: [email protected] Services: Advocacy organization that works to reduce crime through criminal-justice reform and the rehabilitation of errants.

WYOMING

ACLU-Wyoming Chapter

Contact: Linda Burt

Address: P.O. Box 20706

Cheyenne, WY 82003

Phone: (307) 637-4565; (307) 637-4565 fax

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.aclu-wy.org

Services: Provide general prisoner assistance

primarily by screening and referral.

Wyoming Defender Aid Program

Contact: Dianne Courselle

Address: 1000 E. University Avenue, Dept.

3035 Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: (307) 766-3223; (307) 766-2105 fax E-mail: [email protected] Services: Handle post-conviction and habeas corpus cases. Provide direct referrals and legal research.

University of Wyoming Legal Services Contact: John Burman Address: 1000 E. University Avenue, Dept. 3010 Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: (307) 766-2104; (307) 766-4823 fax E-mail: [email protected] Services: Provide legal assistance for civil matters that are not fee-generating.

59 International Organizations

Amnesty International women and girls. There are 25 Address: 322 Eighth Avenue member societies located in New York, NY 10001 Canada. Please write for more Phone: (212) 807-8400 information. Website: www.amnesty.org Services: An independent worldwide Human Rights Watch movement working for the Address: 350 5th Avenue, 34th Floor international protection of human New York, NY 10118-3299 rights. Seek the release of men and Phone: (212) 290-4700; (212) 736-1300 fax women detained because of their Website: www.hrw.org beliefs, ethnic origin, language, or Services: Conduct fact-finding investigations religious creed, provided they have into human-rights abuses in all not used violence (prisoners of regions of the world. Working with conscience). Work for a fair and local partners, monitor conditions of prompt trial for all political prisoners detention around the world. Publish and work on behalf of such people findings in books and reports. detained without charge or trial. Oppose the death penalty, torture or Penal Reform International other inhumane treatment of Address: Unit 450, The Bon Marche Centre prisoners. For prisoners who have 241-251 Ferndale Road been ill-treated by prison personnel, London SW9 8BJ will provide a "Questionnaire on United Kingdom Torture and Ill-treatment." (Do not Phone: +44 20 7924 9575; send transcripts.) Publish numerous +44 20 7924 9697 fax reports on human-rights violations E-mail: [email protected] around the world, including death- Website: www.penalreform.org penalty reports. Write for complete Services: Provide assistance to local human list. All AI reports are available on rights organizations, NGO’s, and the website. local governments in the reform of criminal-justice and prison systems Books to Prisoners Montreal and in fighting to abolish the death Address: 2130 Rue Mackay penalty. Work through regional Montreal, QC H3G 2J1 offices in Moscow, Bucharest, and Canada Washington. Phone: (514) 848-7585 E-mail: [email protected] Prisoners Abroad Services: Send books to prisoners free of Address: 89-93 Fonthill Road charge. Finsbury Park London N4 3JH Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry United Kingdom Societies (CAEFS) Phone: +44 20 7561 6820; Contact: Kim Pate +44 20 7561 6821 fax Address: 151 Slater Street - #701 E-mail: [email protected] Ottawa, ON K1P 5H3 Website: www.prisonersabroad.org.uk Canada Services: Provide information, advice and Phone: (613) 238-2422; (613) 232-7130 fax support to Britons detained E-mail: [email protected] overseas, to their families and Website: www.elizabethfry.ca friends, and to released prisoners Services: Provide a wide range of social- trying to re-establish themselves in service programs, including direct society. We negotiate with prison services, policy, and law reform for authorities; advise on prison institutionalized and marginalized transfers and finding lawyers;

60 International Organizations

provide essentials such as medicine, food and clothing; link prisoners with pen pals; send magazines and books to clients; give advice and support to families of prisoners abroad; and provide resettlement services for returning clients, including support in finding accommodations, counseling, and applying for benefits.

Prison Fellowship International Contact: Suzanne Fisher Address: P.O. Box 17434 Washington, DC 20041 Phone: (703) 481-0000; (703) 481-0003 fax E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.pfi.org Services: Through our national ministries in 112 countries, offer the following service: Angel Tree for prisoners’ children and families.

Prison Reform Trust Address: The Old Trading House 15 Northburgh Street London EC1V 0JR United Kingdom Phone: +44 20 7251 5070; +44 20 7251 5076 fax E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk Services: Lobby government for changes in conditions for prisoners and inform the public of issues regarding imprisonment. Provide advice and information service to prisoners and their families and publish research books and papers on aspects of imprisonment. Current projects include a three-year study of the problems faced by young parents in prison, the mentally ill in prison, facilities for visiting at various prisons around the UK, and prisoner voting rights.

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BOOKS, REPORTS, ETC. ACLU Fact Sheet Set (all four listed above)—

Available for $4.00 . This section is organized alphabetically by publishing organization (beginning after the NPP listing). All publication prices are subject to Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Under change. Contact individual organizations for the PLRA (2001)—Legal information written by specific and current ordering and subscription attorney John Boston—Available for $3.50. information. American Correctional Association ACLU National Prison Project Publications To following publication is available from the The following publications can be ordered, American Correctional Association, Attention prepaid, from The National Prison Project of the Roberta Gibson, 206 North Washington Street, Suite 200, Alexandria, VA 22314; (800) 222- ACLU, 915 15th Street, N.W., 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20005; (202) 393-4930 or fax 5646 x0129:

(202) 393-4931: Corrections Compendium—A peer-reviewed, The National Prison Project Journal—The NPP’s research-based journal of the American biannual newsletter featuring articles, reports, Correctional Association for corrections legal analysis, legislative news, and other professionals. Reports on trends in corrections, developments in prisoners’ rights. An annual legal developments and provides monthly subscription is $30 or $2 for prisoners. surveys on various corrections issues. Published six times a year. The cost is $72 for one year. Play It Safer—This booklet describes sexually transmitted diseases, the signs of disease, the Biddle Publishing importance of safer sex, and the need for To order the following, contact the publisher at treatment. Eleven of the most common STDs are 13 Gurnet Road, PMB 103, Brunswick, ME explained, from Chancroid to Trichomoniasis. The 04011; (207) 833-5016. Website: www.biddle- 27-page booklet also includes a national resource audenreed.com. list for prisoners. Booklet bulk rates are 100 copies for $35.00, 500 copies for $150.00 or Going to Prison? 5th Edition—A guide to help 1,000 copies for $280.00. Send order requests to prepare those en route to prison. The new Jackie Walker at the NPP. This publication is free edition is expanded to include updated to prisoners. information on Federal facilities and Community Corrections Management offices and States’ Prisoners’ Assistance Directory—The Directory DOC. The cost is $9.95 (plus $2.50 shipping). lists and describes local, state, national and international organizations that provide services Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice to prisoners, ex-offenders and prisoners’ families. Publications The Directory is available for $35, prepaid. To order any of the following publications, write the Center at: 54 Dore Street, San Francisco, American Civil Liberties Union Publications CA 94103; (415) 621-5661. Contact the Center ACLU Fact Sheet: Mail in Prison—Available for for prices. All listed publications are also $1.00. available free on the Center’s website at www.cjcj.org. ACLU Fact Sheet: Prisoner Transfers—Available for $1.00. An Analysis of San Francisco Juvenile Justice Reforms During the Brown Administration ACLU Fact Sheet: Smoking in Prison—Available (2001). for $1.00. A California Juvenile Court Advocate’s Guide to ACLU Fact Sheet: Visitation in Prisons —Available Noninstitutional Placement (2002). for $1.00.

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The Color of Justice: An Analysis of Juvenile Adult Court Transfers in California (2000). Columbia Human Rights Law Review The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual, 6th Edition —A Community-Based Alternative to Juvenile handbook of legal rights and procedures Detention is a Success with Youth Offenders designed for use by people in prison. The JLM (2005). informs prisoners of their legal rights, shows them how to secure these rights through the Community-Based Treatment: The Impact of the judicial process, and guides them through the Homeless Pretrial Release Project (2000). complex array of procedures and legal vocabulary which make up this system. The JLM Dispelling the Myth: An Analysis of Youth and also instructs prisoners in techniques of legal Adult Crime Patterns in California over the Past research and explains the need to take note of 20 Years (2000). important legal developments. Available online at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hrlr/jlm.html. $90.00 Drug Use and Justice 2002: An Examination of for non-inmates and $45.00 for inmates. To California Drug Policy Enforcement (2002). place your order or get more information, please call or write to Columbia Human Rights Law From House of Refuge to ‘Youth Corrections’: Review, Attn: JLM Order, 435 West 116th Street, Same Story, Different Day (2005). New York, NY 10027; (212) 854-1601; (212) 854-7946 (fax). It’s More Profitable to Treat the Disease than to Prevent It: Why the Prison Industrial Complex Florida Prison Legal Perspectives Needs Crime (2004). Offer a bimonthly newsletter. Cost is $5 for prisoners, $10 for individuals and $25 for Poor Prescription: The Costs of Imprisoning Drug lawyers, businesses, or institutions. For more Offenders in the United States (2000). information or to place your order, please write to FPLP, P.O. Box 1511, Christmas, FL 32709; or Racial Disparities and the Drug War (2005). call (407) 568-0200; or e-mail [email protected].

Reducing Disproportionate Minority Confinement: Foreverfamily Publications The Multnomah County Oregon Success Story The following publications are available from and its Implications (2002). Foreverfamily, 691 Garibaldi Street SW, Atlanta, GA 30310; (404) 223-1200. Publications are free School House Hype: Two Years Later (2000). to prisoners and their families or $10 prepaid for non-prisoners. Shattering "Broken Windows": An Analysis of San Francisco’s Alternative Crime Policies (1999). Parenting from Prison: A Handbook for Incarcerated Mothers —A guidebook for mothers in the Third Millennium (2005). who are incarcerated.

Texas Tough? An Analysis of Incarceration and Jail and Justice —A handbook for incarcerated Crime Trends in the Lone Star State (2000). women .

Too Little, Too Late: President Clinton’s Prison Legacy (2001).

Why are we So Punitive? Some Observations on Recent Incarceration Trends (2004).

Widening the Net in Juvenile Justice and the Dangers of Prevention and Early Intervention (2001).

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Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders licenses, non-driver I.D. cards, social security Publications cards, birth certificates and other documents. To order the following publications, write GLAD at 30 Winter Street - #800, Boston, MA 02108; (617) Lewisburg Prison Project Publications 426-1350: The following publications are available from the Project at P.O. Box 128, Lewisburg, PA 17837; National Resource List for Prisoners—A resource (570) 523-1104: listing for prisoners nationally (2 pages). Free to prisoners. Barron’s Law Dictionary —Available for $12.50.

New England Prisoner Packet—A collection of Legal Bulletins—Each bulletin provides legal research for people in prison facing information on constitutional law as applied to discrimination or abuse. Free to prisoners. federal and state institutions. Each one covers a specific topic (First Amendment, due process, Law Offices of Alan Ellis Publications medical care, post-conviction, etc.), and includes Publications available from the offices of Alan case citations and practical instructions for legal Ellis, P.C. at P.O. Box 150, Lemont, PA 16851- actions. Write the Project for a current listing of 0150 include: bulletins. Prices range from $1.50-$3.00. Most cost $1.50 and are distributed nationwide. The Federal Prison Guidebook 2005-2006 Edition—This book contains comprehensive Self-Defense Manual for Pennsylvania State descriptions of every federal prison in the United Prisoners Accused of Misconduct—This booklet States and costs $29.95 for prisoners and their only applies to Pennsylvania prisoners and is families. available for $1.75.

Federal Sentencing and Postconviction News— Michigan-CURE Publications This newsletter contains practice tips, news The following publications are available from MI- updates and recent favorable case law CURE, P.O. Box 2736, Kalamazoo, MI, 49003- descriptions. Available free to federal prisoners. 2736; (269) 383-0028:

Legal Action Center Publications Booklets: Directory of Michigan Adult Sex- Prisoners can receive the following publications Offender Treatment Programs , $2.00; Keeping from the Legal Action Center at 225 Varick Street, Love Alive While in Prison , $1.50. New York, NY 10014; (212) 243-1313 or (800) 223-4044. Publications are also available online Brochures: Getting Out Contacts—A listing, by at www.lac.org/pubs/gratis.html. county, of agencies and organizations that may be helpful to persons leaving prison; Self-Help Are You...—This booklet helps prisoners prevent Recovery Bibliography —A list of helpful readings job discrimination before it happens. for sex offenders and their loved ones; Thoughts on Getting Out ; What You Can Do to Ensure the Certificate of Relief from Disabilities and Best Possible Health Care While You Are in Certificate of Good Conduct: What You Can Do Prison . About Criminal Convictions When Looking for Work—This updated pamphlet helps people with National Coalition to Abolish the Death criminal histories understand the process of Penalty Publications obtaining New York State certificates that can be The following publications are available from the helpful in seeking employment. Coalition at 1717 K Street N.W. - #510, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 331-4090: How to Obtain Important Documents—This guide tells people in New York how to apply for and Abolitionist Directory—The directory lists obtain important documents, including driver’s organizations and contacts, by state, working to

64 Publications end the death penalty. It is updated annually and Washington, DC 20036; (202) 393-1511; (727) costs $3 per copy plus $1.70 for postage. 538-2095 (fax); or online at www.prisonsfoundation.org: National Execution Alert—This newsletter highlights the monthly stories of prisoners who Death Row Resource Guide —An extensive are scheduled to be executed. Annual compilation of significant information about the subscription costs $15.00. death penalty worldwide, with special emphasis on executions in the United States. The cost is National Legal Aid and Defender Association $79.00. Publications The following publication is available from the Prison Artists and Their Work —Profiles over 80 NLADA at 1140 Connecticut Avenue N.W. - #900. prison artists, reproducing hundreds of their Washington, DC 20006; (202) 452-0620: works, many in full color; bonus CD, 71 minutes of music recorded in prison. The cost is $127.00. Directory of Legal Aid and Defender Services—A directory of civil and criminal public law offices Prisoners Rights Resource Guide —The rights of throughout the United States. The price is $35.00 prisoners in America has evolved from the for program members, $55.00 for individual dismal past into a hopeful present and a members, and $95.00 for non-members. promising future. Landmark Supreme Court cases have been decided along the way. We National Veterans’ Legal Services Project provide clear explanations of what they mean for Publications inmates and staff. The cost is $84.00. To purchase the following documents, contact the Veterans’ Project at 2001 S Street, N.W. - #610, Prisons Almanac 2006 —A compilation of a full Washington, DC 20009-1125; (202) 265-8305: year of the most significant news stories about prisons. Also includes a current, comprehensive The Veterans Advocate—This newsletter statistical profile of who is in prison, why they are addresses veteran law and advocacy issues. For there and where they are located. Finally, there incarcerated veteran organizations and accredited are original essays written by experts and service organizations, the cost is $80 for a one- inmates. Available for $58.00. year subscription or $120 for a two-year subscription. Prisons Help Sourcebook —A thorough reference that provides profiles and gives contact Veterans Benefits Manual—This manual is a information for hundreds of sources. Ideal for comprehensive guide to veterans’ law. To volunteers, students, friends and families of purchase, call (800) 533-1637. prisoners. The book also presents a modern prison memoir, a management guide for Oceana Publications wardens and a resource guide for anyone To order the following publication, contact the interested in the way prisons operate. Finally, publisher at 75 Main Street, Dobbs Ferry, NY over 100 films, videos, novels and nonfiction 10522; (914) 693-1320: books about prisons are reviewed and summarized. The cost is $75.00. Brief Writing and Oral Argument, 9th Edition — Provides a selection of legal writing samples, PSI Publishing, Inc. such as memoranda, trial briefs and To purchase the following, contact PSI correspondence. It is designed to assist Publishing, 413-B 19th Street - #168, Lynden, individuals conducting their own legal affairs. The WA 98264; (800) 557-8868: cost is $35, including postage and handling. The Prisoner’s Guide to Survival —Legal Prisons Foundation research guide covering all aspects of federal The following publications are available from the litigation common to prisoners. Designed for Foundation at 1718 M Street, N.W. - #151, novice pro se litigants and experienced attorneys

65 Publications involved in federal criminal appeals and prisoner Books: civil-rights actions. Available to prisoners for - Invisible Punishment—The Collateral $49.95 and to non-prisoners for $64.95, plus $5 Consequences of Mass Imprisonment , 2002, shipping and handling. edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney- Lind. Available for $17.95. Reconciliation Ministries Publications The following publications are available from - Race to Incarcerate (1999), by Marc Mauer. Reconciliation Ministries at 702 51st Avenue Available for $22.95. North, Nashville, TN 37209; (615) 292-6371: - Race to Incarcerate (2000), by Marc Mauer. Handbook for Families and Friends of Tennessee Available for $14.95. Prisoners —A handbook for family members of Tennessee prisoners. Contact the office for cost. Starlite, Inc. Publications The following publication is available from the Parole Packets —The packets provide information publisher at P.O. Box 20004, St. Petersburg, FL on preparing for parole in Tennessee. Available 33742; (727) 392-2929 or (800) 577-2929: for $8. The Citebook —A legal reference book listing Two in Every 100 -—This workbook is for young case citations on many issues, from access to children with a parent in prison. It is designed to the courts to witnesses. It also includes an be completed with a parent, teacher, or overview of the federal and state court systems, counselor. Contact the office for cost. a basic guide to filing legal pleadings, addresses for all federal courts and state and federal adult The Sentencing Project Publications prisons, the U.S. Constitution, and a glossary of To order the following publications, contact the legal terms. Latest edition available for $41.95, Project at 514 10th Street, N.W. - #1000, including shipping/handling/priority mail. Washington, DC 20004; (202) 628-0871. Most publications can be found at the website and Thomson/West Group Publishing downloaded for free, except the books: The following publications are available from Thomson/West Group Publishing, 610 - Aging Behind Bars: “Three Strikes” Seven Opperman Drive, Eagan, MN 55164; (800) 328- Years Later (2001), $5.00. 9352: - Americans Behind Bars: One Year Later (1992), $6.00 . Criminal Law in a Nutshell , by Arnold H. Loewy. - Americans Behind Bars: U.S. and International This book provides an overview of criminal law. Use of Incarceration (1995 ), $8.00. Available for $27.00, including shipping. - An Analysis of the Economics of Prison Siting in Rural Communities , $5.00. Criminal Procedure in a Nutshell , by Jerold H. - Big Prisons, Small Towns: Prison Economics in Israel and Wayne LaFave. This book Rural America (2003), $3.00. concentrates on constitutional criminal - Diminishing Returns: Crime and Incarceration procedures and their limitations. The Fourth, in the 1990s (2000), $5.00. Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments are heavily - Incarceration & Crime: A Complex Relationship covered. A table of cases is also included. (2005), $2.00. Available for $26.50, including shipping. - Intended and Unintended Consequences: State Racial Disparities in Imprisonment (1997) The Law and Policy of Sentencing and $8.00. Corrections , by Lynn S. Branham. This book - The “Meaning of Life”: Long Prison Sentences provides an overview of the sentencing process, in Context (2004), $8.00. the status of pretrial detainees and convicted - State Sentencing and Corrections Policy in an offenders, prisoners’ rights and responsibilities, Era of Fiscal Restraint (2002), $3.50. and a chapter on prisoner remedies. The book ends with a chapter on the restoration of rights

66 Publications for released offenders. Available for $29.00, including shipping. Coalition for Prisoners’ Rights Newsletter — National monthly newsletter published by the Prisoners and the Law , by Ira P. Robbins. This Coalition, P.O. Box 1911, Santa Fe, NM 87504- six-volume, 6,500 page comprehensive set 1911; (505) 982-9520. Available free to covers a full range of issues and legal questions prisoners, their family members, and ex- concerning prisoners’ rights, including AIDS, prisoners. The rates for others are: $12 per year drugs, overcrowding, security, appeals, weapons, for individuals, and $25 per year for government correspondence, visitation issues, prisoner safety, agencies and for-profit institutions. probation, parole, etc. Available for $986.00 plus tax and shipping. Compassion —Bimonthly newsletter written by death-row prisoners, Compassion, c/o St. Rose The Women’s Project Publications Peace and Justice, 140 W. South Boundary The following publications are available from The Street, Perrysburg, OH 43551. There are various Women’s Project, 2224 S. Main Street, Little donation/participation rates; however, a one-year Rock, AR 72206; (501) 372-5113: subscription is $50.00. Your subscription will also underwrite $25.00 in scholarships benefiting HIV, AIDS and Reproductive Health: A Peer family members of murdered victims. Trainer’s Manual-—Available free to prisoners. CorrectCare —Quarterly newspaper on Transformation —A bimonthly newsletter available correctional health care. Prison libraries may free to prisoners. request copies. Go to www.ncchc.org/pubs/correctcare.html. Printed in NEWSLETTERS its entirety online and copies are mailed only to members. Contact National Commission on

Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), 1145 W. Many organizations listed in this Directory publish Diversey Parkway, Chicago, IL 60614; (773) newsletters that are usually available at minimal 880-1460. cost. See organizations’ listings for additional details. The following newsletters cover a broad Correctional Law Reporter —Covers recent range of corrections and criminal-justice issues. Subscription rates are subject to change. decisions and developments in corrections and criminal-justice law. Cost is $169.95 for six Against All Odds —Published by CURE-Ohio, issues. Contact Civic Research Institute, P.O. Box 585, Kingston, NJ 08528; (609) 683-4450. P.O. Box 14080, Columbus, OH 43214; (937)

299-8298. Available on CURE-Ohio’s website: Corrections Professional —Semi-monthly http://cureohio.us. publication, provides corrections news for AIDS Network Newsletter —Published twice a corrections staff. Subscriptions are $215 per year (plus shipping). Contact LRP Publications, year by the AIDS Network, 600 Williamson Street, 747 Dresher Road - #500, Horsham, PA 19044; Madison, WI 53703; (608) 252-6540. (215) 784-0920 or (800) 341-7874.

Art of Prison Survival —This bimonthly publication Damien Center Newsletter —A bimonthly includes profiles of prison artists, previews of newsletter on AIDS-related issues. Subscription prison art to be exhibited at upcoming Prison available free upon written request. Contact Foundation shows, news of prisoners, staff, Damien Center, 26 N. Arsenal, Indianapolis, IN activists and programs that are improving the 46205; (317) 632-0123 or (800) 213-1163 (in- prison environment. Available to prisoners for a state only). donation of $2 (postage stamps accepted) and donations of $25 for non-prisoners. Contact Delaware Center for Justice Commentary — Prisons Foundation, 1718 M Street - #151, Washington D.C., 20036; (202) 383-1511; Quarterly newsletter available free to Delaware www.prisonsfoundation.org. prisoners upon request. Also available online at:

67 Publications www.dcjustice.org/news.html. Contact the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Delaware Center, 100 West 10th Street - #905, Newsletter —Quarterly newsletter free to prisoners. Wilmington, DE 19801; (302) 658-7174. Contact Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty, 180 N. Michigan Avenue - #2300, Dispatch —A newsletter on AIDS-related issues. Chicago, IL 60601; (312) 849-2279. Available from AIDS Delaware, 100 W. 10th Street - #315, Wilmington, DE 19801; (302) 652- Inside Out —Infrequent newsletter on Virginia 6776. prison issues. Available free with membership. Dues are $2 (or 6 stamps) for prisoners, $15 for FAMMGram —Available from Families Against individuals, $25 for families, $50 for supporting Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), 1612 K Street, members, $150 for life members/organizations N.W. - #700, Washington, DC 20006; (202) 822- and $250 for benefactors. Contact Virginia CURE, 6700. Donations are requested. P.O. Box 19307, Alexandria, VA 22320-0307; (703) 765-6549. Florida Prison Legal Perspectives —Published bimonthly. Annual subscriptions cost $5 for Justitia Newsletter —Published by the Justice prisoners, $10 for individuals and $25 for lawyers, Studies Association. Contact Department of businesses, and institutions. Contact publisher at Criminal Justice, Hudson Valley Community P.O. Box 660-387, Chuluota, FL 32766; (407) 568- College, 80 Vandenburgh Avenue, Troy, NY 0200. 12180; (518) 629-7331. Also available online at www.justicestudies.org/Justice-Pub.html. Fortune News —Available free to prisoners. Contact the Fortune Society, 53 W. 23rd Street, 8th Floor, Justice Quarterly —Published four times a year. New York, NY 10010; (212) 691-7554. Also Subscription rates are $419. Justice Quarterly is available on the Fortune Society’s website: published by Routledge Journals with editorial www.fortunesociety.org. control by the Academy of Criminal Justice Services. Contact Routledge Journals, 325 Freedom Inside —Newsletter designed for and Chestnut Street, 8th Floor, Philadelphia, PA written by inmates. It is based on the Conversations 191106; (800) 354-1420. With God materials and its message. The publication is free to inmates. Please send a written Lifelines —Published every 3 months for members. request to P.O. Box 74007, Phoenix, AZ 85068. To obtain a subscription, contact the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, 1717 K Freedomways —Available free to prisoners six Street N.W. - #510, Washington, DC 20009; (202) times a year. Contact the Prison & Jail Project, P.O. 331-4090. Box 6749, Americus, GA 31709; (229) 928-2080. Maryland CURE Newsletter —Local and national GRATERFRIENDS The Newsletter —Published CURE newsletters available with a Maryland monthly. Subscriptions are $3 for prisoners and $15 CURE membership. Dues are $2 a year for for non-prisoners. Contact the Pennsylvania Prison prisoners and $10 a year for non-prisoners. To Society, 245 N. Broad Street - #300, Philadelphia, purchase the newsletter only is $5. Contact MD PA 19107-1518; (215) 412-7917. Also available on CURE, P.O. Box 23, Simpsonville, MD 21150; the Pennsylvania Prison Society’s website: [email protected]. www.prisonsociety.org. Michigan CURE Newsletter —Quarterly newsletter Hepatitis C Awareness News —Published available to members. Contact MI-CURE, P.O. periodically. Current and back issues are only Box 2736, Kalamazoo, MI 49003-2736; (616) 383- available online at www.hcvinprison.org. Contact 0028. the Hepatitis C Awareness Project, P.O. Box 41803, Eugene, OR 97404; (541) 607-5725. The National Prison Project Journal —A biannual newsletter featuring articles, reports, legal analysis, legislative news and other developments

68 Publications in the corrections and criminal-justice fields. shipping and handling. Please contact us at 413-B Includes the Case Law Report, a review of recent 19th Street - #168, Lynden, WA 98264; (800) 557- federal court decisions relevant to corrections. An 8868. Further information is available at annual subscription is $2 for prisoners and $35 for www.prisonerlaw.com. non-prisoners. Contact the NPP at 915 15th Street, N.W., 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20005; (202) 393- Razor Wire Newsletter —Published three to four 4930. times a year. The newsletter covers criminal- justice public education and advocacy work. The News and Views —This quarterly newsletter cost is $6 for prisoners, $15 for students and $30 discusses criminal-justice and corrections issues for all others. Contact the November Coalition, 282 and is available free to NJAC members. W. Astor, Colville, WA 99114; (509) 684-1550. Membership is free to prisoners and $20 for non- prisoners. Contact the New Jersey Association on Resist Newsletter —This newsletter is published Correction, 986 S. Broad Street, Trenton, NJ six times a year. The suggested donation is $20. 08611; (609) 396-8900. Contact Resist at 259 Elm Street, Somerville, MA 02144; (617) 623-5110. Also available on the Out of Time —A newsletter focusing on women Resist website: prisoners, published monthly. Articles include cases www.resistinc.org/newsletters/newsletters.html. of political prisoners and human-rights violations in prisons. Available free to prisoners and the Separate Prisons Newsletter —This monthly community. See our website for archived issues. newsletter is free to families of Tennessee Contact Out of Control Lesbian Committee, 3543 prisoners and is sent to many Tennessee prison 18th Street, P.O. Box 30, San Francisco, CA libraries and prisoner newspapers. Contact 94110; [email protected]; Reconciliation Ministries, 702 51st Avenue, N, http://home.mindspring.com/~outoftime/. Nashville, TN 37209; (615) 292-6371.

Prison Legal News —This monthly journal covers The Trumpet —Free quarterly newsletter, accepts prison-related news and analysis from across the donations. Contact Alderson Hospitality House, country. A one-year subscription is $18 for P.O. Box 579, Alderson, WV 24910; (304) 445- prisoners, $25 for individuals and $60 for lawyers 2980. and institutions. Contact , 2400 NW 80th Street - #148, Seattle, WA 98117; (206) The Veterans Advocate —Monthly newsletter 246-1022; www.prisonlegalnews.org. covers veterans’ law and advocacy issues. Subscriptions are $80 a year. Contact the National The Prison Mirror —Monthly newsletter published by Veterans Legal Services Project, 2001 S Street, and for the men of the Minnesota Stillwater N.W. #610, Washington, DC 20009-1125; (202) Correctional Facility. Subscriptions are $12. Contact 265-8305. Pat Meineke, 970 Pickett Street North, Bayport, MN 55003-1490; (651) 779-2700.

The Prisoner’s Guide to Survival —This legal- assistance manual, published in 2001, covers post- conviction remedies and prisoner civil-rights complaints. Current legislation, including the PLRA, the AEDPA and the RFRA, is discussed. Also included: a guide to the FOIA and Privacy Act, a prisoner resource directory, legal glossary, actual size forms and sample documents. There is an extensive case law section with over 3000 Shepardized, prisoner-related case law decisions. Soft cover, 750 pages. Non-prisoners, $64.95, plus $5 shipping and handling; prisoners, $49.95 plus $5

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EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

College Guild Provides free, non-credit, general interest correspondence courses to prisoners. To receive an application, write to P.O. Box 6448, Brunswick, ME 04011.

College Level Examination Board For more information, contact the Board at 45 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10023; (212) 718-8000.

College Level Examination Program Offers equivalency examinations in a range of subjects. If you feel you have acquired knowledge of a subject outside the usual formal educational channels you may take the college level examination, and with satisfactory test results, obtain college credit. For a catalogue of test subjects offered and for information about making the necessary arrangements, contact the Program at P.O. Box 6600, Princeton, NJ 08541- 6600; (800) 257-9558. E-mail: [email protected].

DUPLICATING SERVICES

Photo Duplication Service Provides copies of collections from the Library of Congress, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps, etc. Copyrighted materials cannot be copied without special permission. Fees vary according to the nature of the request. Order forms and price schedules are available. Written requests and prepayment are required. Contact the Library of Congress, Photo Duplication Service, 101 Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, DC 20540-4570; (202) 707-5640.

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