INFORMATION AND NEWS UPDATES

Prison News Network

All prison related newspaper and magazine articles are posted here, along with requests for help from individuals and organizations to sign a petition or write a letter in support of their cause.

All people interested in the day-to-day struggle of prison reform are invited to join.

www.prisonnewsnetwork.us

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Convicts Co-Op

The Convicts Co-Op is a meeting place for all inmates, convicts and families thereof: anyone interested in the process of research, compilation, composition and filing of forms, appeals, complaints and requests directly related to prison/jail/inmates issues, probation/parole, and administrative entities involved with these areas.

The Convicts Co – Op  website

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VIP-Cali                

(Visitors Inside Prisons – California)

If you’re visiting someone in a California State Prison and would like to find out about changes affecting your visits,
this is the place for you! This list is for VISITORS to find out about local visiting rules and whatever else might complicate the goal of seeing a loved one. We’ll also talk about the fight to get our family visits back for everyone! Please join us...

http://go.to/cdcinfo

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CDC-IN

(CDC Information Network)

An informal discussion list for support and keeping up with CA prison issues.

Here you can share anything you find of importance, which may affect others with loved ones in the CA prison system.

http://go.to/cdcinfo

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PRISON FAMILY

BASICS 101

A teaching tool to help people cope with and fight the excesses of CA prisons.  All are welcome and all information is checked out for accuracy.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prison_family_Basics_101

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FAMILIES OF PRISONERS

We are developing a network and adding numbers to lend weight to our Senators for the passage and support of bills ertaining to Prisoners

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/families_of_prisoners 

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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL

Prison News, Articles, Dictionary, Resources, etc.

http://www.prisonwall.org/

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LIFER / PAROLE ISSUES

PRISONERS OF DAVIS

For those with family members and loved ones being held hostage in California’s state prisons. Especially for term to life families and those denied or refused parole due to unfair and illegal conditions. We here are fighting not only for the parole/release of our loved ones but for all of Davis’ hostages.

 The Prisoners of Davis Website

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POLITICAL INJUSTICE

This site has a dual purpose. First, a lot of information on this site is invaluable to represented or unrepresented litigators challenging BPT decisions. There are numerous articles about the "No parole” policy! Because of copyright infringement potential, many of these articles are summarized, but are available by contacting the Webmaster.

The second purpose is to provide a forum of information about our lifer situation and the political corruption that drives the injustices we must endure.

http://www.politicalinjustice.org

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PRISONERS WITH HIV – AIDS – HEPATITIS C

HIV IN PRISON COMMITTEE

HIV in Prison Committee of California Prison Focus
Judy Greenspan, formerly of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project of Catholic Charities, now chairs CPF’s HIV in Prison Committee.

There are LOTS OF links to organizations/publications working on issues related to HIV/HCV in prison on the site.

http://www.prisons.org/hivin.htm

Hep-Net

Interactively learning about hepatitis is a big part of what makes HepNet so unique. If you are interested in learning more about the liver itself and it’s involvement in viral hepatitis we have The Liver in Health and Disease, which is an easy to follow learning module. Eight different slide presentations will update you on almost everything you need to know about hepatitis.

http://www.hepnet.com

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3 – STRIKES & MANDATORY SENTENCING

FACTS

Families to Amend California’s 3-Strikes

We are a statewide California organization with the purpose of amending the California 3-Strikes law.

http://www.facts1.com/

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FAMM

Families Against Mandatory Minimums (Northern California)

 Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation (FAMM Foundation) 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 19,000 members and 25 volunteer-run chapters across the country.

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PRISONER RIGHTS/ VARIOUS PRISONER ISSUES

Californians United For Justice

CUFJ

P.O. BOX 265

Templeton, CA 93465-0265

E-mail: Cufj@justice.com

Website:www.cufj.org

Prison Reform Unity Project

It is the intention of the ""Prison Reform Unity Project"" to:

Coordinate an annual day of unity for all human rights and prison reform groups.

Facilitate with organizations, the families and friends of prisoners and people of conscience to conduct annual rallies at state capitols, prisons and other appropriate sites across America in support of human rights and prison reform.

prup@justice.com

www.prup.us

CRIMINAL JUSTICE CONSORTIUM

PRISON LAW OFFICE

Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison-Industrial Complex

Human Rights and the Drug War

Prison Moratorium Project

The California Prison Moratorium Project seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years. During this time, money will be diverted from California’s prison construction budget to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible. As a result, communities will have the power to examine the reasons people break the law, and seek alternatives to prison.    

STOP PRISON RAPE

CALIFORNIA PRISON FOCUS

BOOKS NOT BARS

Books not Bars (BNB) was launched in 2001 as a project of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, to expose and end the over-incarceration of youth.

BNB combines

1] Public education and smart media work.

2] Grassroots organizing and direct action with an emphasis on local campaigns.

3] Advocacy for change in policy related to the criminal justice system.

Books Not Bars Campaign

c/o Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

1230 Market Street, PMB#409

San Francisco, CA 94102

Tel: 415-951-4844x221

http://www.booksnotbars.org

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WOMEN PRISONERS

C.C.W.P.

CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR WOMEN PRISONERS

CCWP raises the public consciousness about the cruel and inhumane conditions under which women in prison live and advocates for positive changes. We promote the leadership of and give voice to women prisoners, former prisoners, and their families.

California Coalition for Women Prisoners
100 McAllister Street, 2^nd Floor
San Francisco, Ca  94102
Phone: 415-255-7036, ext. 4
Fax: 415-552-3150
E-mail: info@womenprisoners.org
Website: http://womenprisoners.org

Justice Now

Justice Now is the first teaching law clinic in the country solely focused on the needs of women prisoners. Interns and staff provide legal services in areas of need identified by women prisoners, including:
• compassionate release;
• healthcare access;
• defense of parental rights;
• sentencing mitigation;
• placement in community-based programs.

Justice Now

1322 Webster Street

Suite 210

Oakland, CA 94612

Tel: 510 839 7654

Fax: 510 839 7615

www.jnow.org

L.S.P.C.

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children           

LSPC advocates for the human rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration. We respond to requests for information, trainings, technical assistance, litigation, community activism and the development of more advocates. Our focus is on women prisoners and their families, and we emphasize that issues of race are central to any discussion of incarceration.

http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
1540 Market St., Suite 490 

San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 255-7036  

info@prisonerswithchildren.org

ANTI – DEATH PENALTY

CALIFORNIA DEATH PENALTY FOCUS

Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives. There are currently 565 men and women on California’s death row and 3,600 awaiting death across the country.

California Death Penalty Focus
74 New Montgomery, Suite 250
San Francisco, CA  94105
Phone: 415-243-0143
Fax: 415-243-0994
E-Mail: dpf@deathpenalty.org
http://www.deathpenalty.org

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GAY / LESBIAN / TRANSGENDERED PRISONERS

LOCKED OUT

LOCKED OUT is an organization that gives assistance to transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay people in jail. We send them free books. We give them information to help retain their humanity. This site exists as a resource for persons interested in prison issues and the plight of queer (transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay, same gender loving, and two spirit) prisoners.  It serves as a source of information which links the progressive community, individuals and groups, to the struggles for queer liberation and equality.

Bound Together Books

1369 Haight Street

San Francisco, CA 94117

http://www.prisons.org/locked_out.htm

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OUT OF CONTROL

We work in the San Francisco Bay Area Lesbian and Gay Communities, nationally, and internationally to educate people about political prisoners in the U.S. and about the horrendous conditions in U.S. prisons in general. We have done support work for people with AIDS in prison, and for battered women convicted of killing their abusers.

Out of Control Lesbian Committee can be contacted at:
3543 – 18^th Street, Box 30
San Francisco, CA, 94110

http://www.prisons.org/out of.htm

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RESOURCES FOR PRISONER ADVOCATES

PARC

PRISON ACTIVIST RESOURCE CENTER

PARC is committed to exposing and challenging the institutionalized racism of the criminal injustice system and to further developing anti-racism as individuals and throughout our organization.

We provide support for educators, activists, prisoners, and prisoners' families. This work includes building networks for action and producing materials that expose human rights violations while fundamentally challenging the rapid expansion of the prison industrial complex

Prison Activist Resource Center
PO Box 339
Berkeley CA 94701
Phone: 510-845-8813
Fax: 510-845-8816
E-mail: parcer@igc.org

http://www.prisonactivist.org

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