NATIONAL COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY (NCADP)
The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s mission is to abolish the death penalty in the United States and support efforts to abolish the death penalty worldwide. Free monthly webinars on current event issues pertaining to criminal justice reform across the United States. Access previous webinar episodes on NCADPs youtube channel.
THE LANNAN CENTER FOR POETRY AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
lannan.georgetown.edu
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University is a literary, critical, and pedagogical undertaking devoted to the situation of poetry and poetics in the contemporary world.
CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH
www.fairsentencingofyouth.org
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth is the national campaign working to end the practice of sentencing children to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
THE BEAT WITHIN
www.beatwithin.org
The Beat Within’s mission is to provide incarcerated youth with consistent opportunity to share their ideas and life experiences in a safe space that encourages literacy, self-expression, some critical thinking skills, and healthy, supportive relationships with adults and their community.
JUST
www.justpublication.org
JUST is a social justice publication dedicated to exploring student innovation, experience, and leadership advancing social justice both within and outside the Georgetown community.
THE VIGILANT LENS
www.thevigilantlens.com
Photos and words.
SOCIAL JUSTICE CAMP DC
An evolving community concerned with cultivating social and economic justice in the Nation’s Capital.
THE CHILDREN’S LAW CENTER
www.childrenslawcenter.org
Children’s Law Center helps DC children achieve a solid foundation of family, health and education.
THE PRISONS ART FOUNDATION
www.prisonsfoundation.org
We support prisoner writing, art and overcoming obstacles faced by returning citizens.
CURE (CITIZENS UNITED FOR REHABILITATION OF ERRANTS)
www.curenational.org
Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) is a grassroots organization that believes prisons should be used only for those who absolutely must be incarcerated and that those who are incarcerated should have all of the resources they need to turn their lives around.
THE SAFE STREETS ARTS FOUNDATION
www.safestreetsarts.org
The Safe Streets Arts Foundation uses the arts to allow all segments of the criminal justice community to communicate with each other and with the public.
THE EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
www.eji.org
The Equal Justice Initiative is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
FREE MINDS BOOK CLUB & WRITING WORKSHOP
Free Minds uses books, creative writing, and peer support to awaken DC youth incarcerated as adults to their own potential. Through creative expression, job readiness training, and violence prevention outreach, these young poets achieve their education and career goals, and become powerful voices for change in the community.
THINK OUTSIDE THE CELL FOUNDATION
www.thinkoutsidethecell.org
To end the stigma of incarceration and to help the incarcerated, the formerly incarcerated and their loved ones through literacy, education, personal development and the removal of societal barriers to the American Dream.
HEARD (HELPING EDUCATE TO ADVOCATE THE RIGHTS OF THE DEAF)
Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf (HEARD), is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that promotes equal access to legal system for individuals who are deaf and for people with disabilities.
The American Prison Writing Archive
https://apw.dhinitiative.org/collection-description
The American Prison Writing Archive is the largest and first fully searchable digital archive of non-fiction essays by incarcerated people writing about their experience inside. To get your views of the prison system into the public sphere, write to request a permissions-questionnaire: The APWA. 198 College Hill Road, Clinton NY 13323.