Political Prisoners Alvaro Luna Hernandez National Freedom Coalition Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti Committee to Free Lori Berenson Earth Liberation Prisoners Eddie Hatcher, Political Prisoner Forum für Monika Haas (Frankfurt) Free "Free" [Jeff Luers] Now! Free José Luís Aviña Now! (San Diego) Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (Amsterdam) International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal The International Office of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Irish Political Prisoners Information Page Jericho Amnesty Coalition - Los Angeles Jericho Boston The Jericho Movement -- to free U.S. political prisoners. The Jericho Movement: Amnesty for Political Prisoners and POWs (San Francisco Bay Area) Join the Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (Partisan Defense Committee) Leonard Peltier: Shackled Eagle National Campaign to Free Alvaro Hernandez Luna Now! (Houston) National Committee to Free the Cuban Five Night's Lantern Political Prisoners Page Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners Political Prisoners and POWs in the US -- includes a list of names and addresses. Rob “Los Ricos” Thaxton: Chicano Anarchist Political Prisoner Solidaritygroup Political Prisoners (Holland) Support the Ecoprisoners! Syracuse Jericho Movement Miscellaneous Abolish the Death Penalty Blog American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Programs Addressing Prisons Anarchist Black Cross Federation Anarchist Black Cross Network Books Not Bars Books to Prisoners (Seattle) -- "Please help us send FREE books to men and women behind bars." Books to Prisoners Programs (AFSC-Ohio) -- list of organizations and their addresses. California Prison Focus -- "working to stop human rights violations, improve medical care and end long-term isolation in California's prisons." Canadian Federal Prisoners and Their Families Web Site Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) Homepage -- "CEML is an anti-racist group which fights against the brutality of ``control unit'' prisons. Prisoners in these prisons are caged for arbitrary lengths of time, sometimes years, in total isolation in conditions that violate the United Nations' Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of prisoners. We also work to expose the racist nature of imprisonment in the U.S." Committee to Free Lori Berenson Critical Resistance -- "Join the Struggle to End the Military/Industrial Complex" Death Penalty Information Center (Washington, D.C.) Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) -- "is a national organization of citizens working to reform federal and state mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial discretion. To ensure equity and fairness at all stages of the sentencing process, FAMM also works to improve sentencing guidelines. Formed in 1991, FAMM has 25,000 members and 35 volunteer-run chapters across the country." Families to Ammend California's Three-Strikes (FACTS) (Los Angeles) Free Battered Women ( - a project of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners Help for Families and Friends of Prisoners HIV in Prison Committee (San Francisco) Inmate Connection - "Looking for a prison pen pal? Write a prisoner through inmate-connection. Features bios of lonely male and female inmates looking for pen pals." Irish Northern Aid (INA) -- "is a nonprofit American organization that provides support for the Irish Republican movement through political action and educational outreach, while providing financial assistance to the families of those imprisoned or killed for their political beliefs. An all-volunteer organization with local units throughout the country, INA works to bring about a united and democratic Ireland, independent and free." Journals of Prisoners on Prison (Ottawa) -- "is a prisoner- written, academically-oriented journal based on the tradition of the Penal Press. The purpose of the journal is 'to bring the knowledge and experience of the incarcerated to bear upon more academic arguments and concerns and to inform public discourse about the current state of our carceral institutions.' This endeavour is particularly important because with few exceptions, articles on crime and punishment are written by criminologists, sociologists, journalists, and workers in the criminal justice system who often present incomplete views of the reality of imprisonment which, in turn, justify increasingly repressive and reactionary penal policies and practices." Justice Action (Australia) Justice Denied: The Magazine for the Wrongly Convicted -- "devoted to helping people who have been wrongly convicted in the United States of America, according to the information they have given us." JusticeNet Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) (San Francisco) Links Toward Abolition (The Other Side of the Wall) -- of the death penalty. Locked Out Queer/LGBT Prisoners Resource List Montreal Anarchist Black Cross Federation - "The ABCF is a network of collectives that support North American Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. Different PP/POWs participated in progressive and revolutionary movements in varying levels, some in educational and community organizing, others in clandestine armed and offensive people's armies. All are in prison as a result of conscious political action, for building resistance, building and leading movements and revolution." Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation -- "is a national organization of family members of both homicide and state killings who oppose the death penalty in all cases. Our mission is to abolish the death penalty. We advocate for programs and policies that reduce the rate of homicide and promote crime prevention and alternatives to violence. We support programs that address the needs of victims, helping them to rebuild their lives." National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty National Jericho Movement - "Jericho is a movement with the defined goal of gaining recognition of the fact that political prisoners and prisoners of war exist inside of the United States despite the United States' government's continued denial ... and winning amnesty and freedom for these political prisoners." Native Free Spirits (Snake River Correctional Institution, Ontario, Oregon) New York City Jericho Movement Northwest Anarchist Prisoners' Support Network The November Coalition (Colville, Washington) -- "is a non-profit, grassroots organization who are educating the public about the destructive increase in prison population in the United States due to our current drug laws." Organization for Sensible and Effective Prison Policy (OSEPP) The Pennsylvania Prison Society -- "Founded in 1787, The Pennsylvania Prison Society is a social justice organization that advocates on behalf of prisoners, formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. Headquartered in Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Prison Society operates through a network of statewide chapters." Prison Activist Resource Center -- "the source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system." Prison Art (San Francisco) - "Prisoner-made arts & crafts for sale." Prison Legal News -- "is an independent 40-page monthly publication that reports, reviews and analyzes court rulings and news related to prisoner rights and prison issues. PLN has a national (U.S.) focus on both state and federal prison issues, with international coverage as well. " Prison Law Page Prison Moratorium Project - "Building a Future Beyond Prisons" Prison Murder: Crimes of America's Prison Systems Prison Professionals Speak Out for Justice PrisonerLife.com - "an open and uncensored forum networking prisoners, prisons and the world" Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN) Prisoners Overseas -- "Promoting Human Rights, Tolerance and Freedom" PrisonSucks.com -- Research on the prison-industrial complex PrisonZone Report from Jericho '98 (Mike Flugennock) The Sentencing Project (Washington, D.C.) -- "promotes decreased reliance on incarceration and increased use of more effective and humane alternatives. It is a nationally known source of criminal justice policy analysis, data and program information. Its reports, publications and staff are relied upon by the public, policymakers and the media." South Dakota Prisoners Support Group Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) (Los Angeles) Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement (Houston) -- "a grassroots activist group dedicated to ending the racist death penalty." Western Prison Project (Portland, Oregon) -- "exists to create progressive reform of the prison and criminal justice systems, leading to mass decarceration, community-based alternatives to incarceration, and social and economic justice for communities disproportionately targeted by the criminal justice system. We work within a seven state region of the West: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah & Nevada." Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance