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The Appeal
Highlights the human impact of our criminal justice system and holds public officials to account

Centurion Ministries
The world’s first organization dedicated to the vindication of the wrongfully convicted

Injustice Watch
Exposes institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality

Innocence Network
71 organizations worldwide working to exonerate the unjustly convicted

The Innocence Project’s 2020 Media Viewing Guide
Lists recent films, documentaries, and miniseries about wrongful conviction

The Inquest
A forum for advancing bold decarceral ideas from the Institute to End Mass Incarceration

The National Registry of Exonerations
Maintains updated reports, statistics, and infographics by state of every known exoneration in the United States since 1989

The Marshall Project
Sustains a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system

Witness to Innocence
Empowers exonerated death row survivors and their family members to become effective leaders in the abolition movement

TIME Magazine Special Edition
Innocent: The Fight Against Wrongful Convictions (Feb 2017)

American Prison Writing Archive
Hosts the nation’s largest open digital archive and aims to replace misrepresentation of prisons and imprisoned people with first-person literature of witness

Compassion Prison Project
Encourages a trauma-informed approach to education and healing in prisons

Critical Resistance
Challenges the prison industrial complex

Drop LWOP Coalition
Strives to end life without parole or ‘death by incarceration’ in California

Dream Corps JUSTICE (formerly Cut 50)
Works to reduce the prison population while making communities safer

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Organizes communities to divest from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities for all

Essie Justice Group
Invests in the leadership of women of color with incarcerated loved ones, and runs healing and advocacy programing to end their political isolation

Equal Justice Initiative
Creates hope through challenging poverty and racial injustice and advocating for equal treatment in the criminal justice system

Equal Justice USA
Breaks cycles of trauma by strengthening alternatives to violence and promoting justice based on healing and equity

Freedom Reads
Empowers people through literature to confront what prison does to the spirit; disseminates its Freedom Library and literary programs to support the efforts of people in prison to imagine new futures

Homeboy Industries
Supports formerly gang-involved and incarcerated men and women with a range of social enterprises and re-entry services

Institute to End Mass Incarceration
Aims to eradicate mass incarceration, root and branch, by supporting organized action, bold innovation, and research

Justice for Families
The only national juvenile justice reform organization founded and run by system-impacted families working to end mass criminalization

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Organizes communities most impacted by the criminal justice system

PEN America’s Prison & Justice Writing Program
Amplifes the writing of incarcerated writers and connects them to the broader literary community

The Prison Activist Resource Center
Offers resources for organizing against the prison industrial complex

Prison Policy Institute
Produces cutting-edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization

Rehabilitation Through the Arts
Helps develop critical life skills through the arts, modeling an approach to the justice system based on human dignity rather than punishment

The Sentencing Project
Promotes reforms in sentencing policy, addresses unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocates for alternatives to incarceration

Vera Institute for Justice
Drives change to build systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities

Women’s Prison Association
Helps women with criminal justice histories see new possibilities for themselves and their families

Amnesty International’s program to abolish the death penalty

The ACLU's campaign to abolish the death penalty

Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Political opposition to the death penalty

Catholics Mobilizing Network
Catholics Against the Capital Punishment promotes abolition and restorative justice

Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty
Questions a system marked by inefficiency, inequity, and inaccuracy

Death Penalty Action
Provides high visibility resources, leadership, support, educational and direct action events and activities within the broader abolition movement 

Death Penalty Information Center
Best source of data about the death penalty

Death Penalty Focus
Focuses on public education, grassroots organizing, political advocacy, media outreach, and coalition-building

The Eighth Amendment Project
Unites the national movement to change public discourse on capital punishment and guides funders to invest strategically on abolition efforts

Unitarian Universalists for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Seeks to give witness to the six UUA resolutions calling for an end to capital punishment

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Convenes a global alliance of more than 160 NGOs, bar associations, and authorities and lends an international dimension to the struggle for universal abolition

Human Kindness Foundation
Provides free spiritual books to those on the inside

Insight-Out
Organizes intiatives like the GRIP Training Institute that create the personal and systemic change to tranform violence and suffering into opportunities for learning and healing

Liberation Prison Project
Offers Buddhist books and guides to the incarcerated; a project of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)

Prison Mindfulness Institute (formerly Prison Dharma Network)
Promotes mindfulness practices of the world's great contemplative traditions and contemporary therapy in correctional institutions and envisioning transformative justice

Prison Yoga Project
Assists prisons, governmental agencies, private entities, and individuals in establishing trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness programs

Sravasti Abbey’s Prison Dharma Program
Provides free Buddhist books & media to individuals and prison chapel libraries

Wisdom Publications
Major Buddhist publishing house provides free books to readers on the inside

Lion’s Roar article
Buddhism Behind Bars: Organizations
(Jan 2018)
Lists some dedicated organizations offering Buddhist teachings and meditation practices to the incarcerated in prisons across the U.S.

Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Shares spiritual practices and resources for social justice advocates

Operation Peacemaker Fellowship
Peacemaking study, practice, and mentoring groups in Richmond, CA

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education
Provides mindfulness program for teens & adults

Mind Body Awareness Project
Teaches mindfulness & emotional literacy to at-risk youth

Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning
Empowers educators with free, online, global K-12 tools to foster attention training, compassion and ethical discernment, systems thinking, resilience and trauma-informed practices

Tools for Peace
Inspiring youth to develop kindness and compassion through mindfulness & emotional literacy