The Equal Justice Initiative

PHONE NUMBER
334-269-1803
WEBSITE ADDRESS
eji.org
EMAIL ADDRESS
intake@eji.org
MAILING ADDRESS
122 Commerce Street
Montgomery, Alabama 36104
DESCRIPTION
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

Harvard Law School Prison Legal Assistance Project

PHONE NUMBER
617-495-3127
WEBSITE ADDRESS
clinics.law.harvard.edu/plap
MAILING ADDRESS
6 Everett Street, Suite 5107
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA 02138
DESCRIPTION
The Prison Legal Assistance Project (PLAP) is a student practice organization in which students represent inmates in Massachusetts prisons. PLAP student attorneys argue at disciplinary hearings on behalf of prisoners charged with violating prison regulations. PLAP students also argue before the Massachusetts Parole Board for prisoners facing parole revocation or rescission and second degree life sentence hearings. IMG_0177In addition, PLAP provides inmates with assistance in matters ranging from civil rights violations to confiscated property.

The Osborne Association

PHONE NUMBER
718-707-2600
WEBSITE ADDRESS
www.osborneny.org
Address
MAILING ADDRESS
809 Westchester Ave
Bronx, New York 10455
DESCRIPTION
The Osborne Association offers opportunities for individuals who have been in conflict with the law to transform their lives through innovative, effective, and replicable programs that serve the community by reducing crime and its human and economic costs. We offer opportunities for reform and rehabilitation through public education, advocacy, and alternatives to incarceration that respect the dignity of people and honor their capacity to change.

Brad College

PHONE NUMBER
845-758-7308
WEBSITE ADDRESS
bpi.bard.edu
EMAIL ADDRESS
bpi@bard.edu/
MAILING ADDRESS
PO BOX 5000 Annandale-on-hudson New York 12504
DESCRIPTION
The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) creates the opportunity for incarcerated men and women to earn a Bard College degree while serving their sentences. The academic standards and workload are rigorous, based on an unusual mix of attention to developmental skills and ambitious college study. The rate of post-release employment among the program’s participants is high and recidivism is stunningly low. By challenging incarcerated men and women with a liberal education, BPI works to redefine the relationship between educational opportunity and criminal justice.

The Legal Aid Society

PHONE NUMBER
212-577-3300
WEBSITE ADDRESS
www.legal-aid.org
MAILING ADDRESS
199 Water Street
New York, NY 10038
DESCRIPTION
The Legal Aid Society is the nation’s oldest and largest private not-for-profit organization providing free legal services to low-income individuals and families in New York City. The Legal Aid Society handles 300,000 cases and matters annually with a staff of 1,700, including 1,000 lawyers and nearly 700 social workers, investigators, paralegals, and support and administrative staff through a network of 25 borough, neighborhood, and courthouse offices in all five boroughs of New York City. The Legal Aid Society’s law reform work benefits some two million low-income families and individuals in New York City and the landmark rulings in many of these cases have a Statewide and national impact.

Innocence Project

PHONE NUMBER
2123645340
WEBSITE ADDRESS
www.innocenceproject.org
EMAIL ADDRESS
info@innocenceproject.org
MAILING ADDRESS
40 Worth Street, Suite 701
New York, NY 10013
DESCRIPTION
The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

The Fortune Society

PHONE NUMBER
212) 691-7554
WEBSITE ADDRESS
fortunesociety.org
EMAIL ADDRESS
info@fortunesociety.org
MAILING ADDRESS
29-76 Northern Boulevard
Long Island City, NY 11101
DESCRIPTION
The Fortune Society’s mission is to support successful reentry from incarceration and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities

Alliance Of Families For Justice

PHONE NUMBER
347-973-0580
WEBSITE ADDRESS
afj-ny.org
MAILING ADDRESS
8 W. 126th Street, 3rd floor, NY, NY 10027
DESCRIPTION
Supports, empowers and mobilizes families of incarcerated people and people with criminal records to Marshal their voting power and advocacy skills to bring about systematic change.Families are the building block of every community. We help families overcome the financial, social and emotional loss when a loved one is incarcerated and help them prepare for his or her successful re-entry.

Innocence Project

PHONE NUMBER
513-556-6805
MAILING ADDRESS
University of Cincinnati
College of Law
2540 Clifton Ave
Cincinnati OH 45221
DESCRIPTION
Our goal is simple: we want to free every innocent person in Ohio who has been convicted of a crime they didn’t commit.

We’re proud to be a part of the University of Cincinnati, where we made our home in 2003. Since then, our work has led to the exoneration of 27 wrongfully convicted citizens who served a total of more than 450 years behind bars. That makes us one of the top-performing members among the international Innocence Network.

Our work includes helping develop and advocate for lasting criminal justice reform through legislation as well as launching Ohio Innocence Project University, an active network of student groups at colleges across the state

Pathfinders Of Oregon

PHONE NUMBER
503-892-5396
WEBSITE ADDRESS
pathfindersoforegon.com
EMAIL ADDRESS
info@pathfindersoforegon.org
DESCRIPTION
Our vision for change is that clients who emerge from our programs and services are living crime-free lives and prospering as accountable citizens of their communities.
Over the past 20 years, our focus has expanded from offering cognitive restructuring programs for the Oregon Department of Corrections to changing the way systems interact with and impact children, families and individuals through developing and using evidence-based programs and practices. Our major programs are Corrections, the Children’s Justice Alliance, the Center for Family Success, and Upstream Youth Violence Prevention.

Bookem

WEBSITE ADDRESS
bookempa.org
MAILING ADDRESS
5129 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
DESCRIPTION
Book‘Em is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh that sends reading and educational materials to prisoners across Pennsylvania. Our mission is to turn the time served in prison into a period of growth and education. With diminished budgets for under-stocked prison libraries, organizations such as ours are often the only means prisoners have of obtaining literary or reading material. We believe that educating individuals during incarceration is an integral part of rehabilitation. By using the time in prison to prepare for re-entry into society, ex-offenders will have a greater chance at living a productive life and be less likely to revert to a criminal lifestyle.