Alternatives to Violence Project (A.V.P.) a multicultural organization of volunteers offering experiential workshops that empower individuals to liberate themselves and others from the burden of violence.

Amend 3 Strikes a non-profit involved in amending the three strikes law.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Prison Project this organization focuses to create constitutional conditions of confinement and strengthen prisoners' rights. It remains as the only national litigation program on behalf of prisoners.

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. AFSC has programs that focus on issues related to economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization, social justice, and youth.

Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners.

Benedict Center is an interfaith nonprofit agency that works with victims, offenders and the community to achieve a system of justice that is fair and treats everyone with dignity and respect.

Books not Bars an organization dedicated to advocacy, grassroots organization and public education to end the over-incarceration of youth.

Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law: Criminal Justice Program focuses on community engagement and social participation, working to find new ways for the least powerful in our society to have a voice in how we conceive of crime, our law enforcement practices, and the sanctions that we impose. It aims to bring to the table those who historically have been excluded in defining justice and the justice system.

Buddhist Peace Fellowship Prison Project is deeply committed to working with prisoners, their families, and all other persons associated with the prison system to address the systemic violence within the prison-industrial complex.

California Attorneys For Criminal Justice is the country's largest statewide organization of criminal defense lawyers and allied professionals. When defense team members and their clients need a strong advocate for justice in the legislature, the courts and the media, CACJ is there.

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

California Prison Focus an organization dedicated to stopping human rights violations, improve medical care and end long-term isolation in California's prisons.

California Prison Moratorium Project seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California for five years in order to fund and actively pursue alternatives to incarceration for as many people as possible.

Campaign for Criminal Justice Reform (CCJR) This organization is an initiative of The Justice Project (TJP) and a national movement focused on addressing flaws in the American justice system.

Campaign for New Drug Policies a national organization reforming drug laws and policies.

Catholic Charities of California serving people in need, advocating for justice, and convening for human development and social justice.

Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) The mission of CASES is to increase the understanding and use of community sanctions that are fair, affordable, and consistent with public safety. For more than 30 years, CASES has worked with the justice system to find sentencing alternatives that respond to justice system needs.

Center for Applied Local Research is a non-profit organization dedicated to the application of social sciences and related skills to improving the quality of human services at the local level.

Center for Court Innovation is a unique public-private partnership that is dedicated to enhancing the performance of courts and those whose work intersects with the courts. In performing this work, the Center's goals are to reduce crime, aid victims, strengthen communities and promote public trust in justice.

Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice a private, non-profit agency dedicated to promoting viable alternatives to incarceration. Through strategic research, policy analysis, public education and model programs, CJCJ promotes criminal and juvenile justice policy reform.

Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP) is an organization dedicated to ending the death penalty in the United States through aggressive campaigns of public education, and the promotion of tactical grassroots activism.

Common Sense for Drug Policy is a non-profit organization with offices in Washington, DC; Lancaster, PA; and Los Angeles, CA, dedicated to expanding discussion on drug policy by resonating the voices of those raising questions about existing law and educating the public about alternatives to current policies.

Criminal Justice Forum the goal of their program and their site is to provide assistance to those dealing with the criminal justice system and to help the victims, defendants and their respective families find the help they need.

Criminal Justice Policy Foundation (CJPF) is a private, non-profit educational organization that promotes solutions to the problems facing the criminal justice system.

Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

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.

Drug Policy Alliance is the nation's leading organization working to end the war on drugs and promote new drug policies based on common sense, science, public health and human rights.

Drug Reform Coordination Network a national network of nearly 25,000 concerned citizens working for drug policy reform from a variety of perspectives, including harm reduction, reform of sentencing and forfeiture laws, medicalization of currently schedule I drugs, and promotion of an open debate on drug prohibition.

Drug Sense a non-profit that exist to provide accurate information relevant to drug policy in order to heighten awareness of the extreme damage being caused to our nation and the world by the current "War on Drugs."

Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to challenge inflexible and excessive penalties required by mandatory sentencing laws. FAMM promotes sentencing policies that give judges the discretion to distinguish between defendants and sentence them according to their role in the offense, seriousness of the offense and potential for rehabilitation.

Families to Amend California's 3-Strikes a state-wide California organization with the purpose of amending the California 3-Strikes law.

Federal CURE, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that deals solely with the issues faced by federal inmates and their loved ones. They are working to promote a system that incarcerates fewer people and provides humane conditions for those who are incarcerated or under post-incarceration supervision via parole or supervised release.

Free Battered Women is a statewide grassroots coalition of activists, attorneys, therapists, students, community members, and other dedicated individuals throughout California who strive to end the re-victimization of battered women in prison.

Friends Committee on Legislation of California a citizen advocacy group committed to ending the death penalty, reforming the juvenile and criminal justice system and diverting drug users to treatment.

HIV Stops with Me is a social marketing campaign which aims to reduce the stigma associated with HIV and to acknowledge the powerful role that people who are positive have in ending the epidemic.

HIV/HCV in Prison Committee of California Prison Focus works on behalf of prisoners to advocate for health issues surrounding the treatment and maintenance of HIV & HCV in prisons.

Human Rights Watch - Prison Focus is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. This website focuses on prison issues.

John Howard Association mission is to bring about fair and effective correctional programs that are responsive to the needs of both offenders and the general community through advocacy, monitoring, policy development, public education, and information and referral services.

Justice Action is a community-based organization comprised of criminal justice and prison reform activists. Site includes news, resources and many links.

Justice Policy Institute is a non-profit research and public policy organization dedicated to ending society's reliance on incarceration and promoting effective and just solutions to social problems.

Justice Seekers, Inc. is an organization advocating for prison reform and humanized corrections.

JusticeWorks Community a nonprofit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, whose mission is to educate, organize and mobilize a national partnership of religious and secular grassroots groups to advocate for just and humane criminal justice policies for women.

Lamp of Hope Project founded by Texas Death Row prisoners to educate the public about the death penalty and alternatives; support victims' families by promoting healing and reconciliation; and support prisoners' families, thereby breaking the cycle of violence.

Medical Advocates for Social Justice (MASJ): Prison Health advocates for and facilitate access to timely and appropriate healthcare for all who have, or are at risk of, life-threatening endemic and epidemic infectious disease and who are disenfranchised from such access because of poverty and/or discrimination.

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. Their mission is to abolish the death penalty. They advocate for programs and policies that reduce the rate of homicide and promote crime prevention and alternatives to violence.

National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABJC) is a multiethnic, nonpartisan, nonprofit association of criminal justice professionals and community leaders dedicated to improving the administration of justice. NABJC's mission is to act upon the needs, concerns, and contributions of African Americans and other people of color as they relate to the administration of equal justice.

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) a unique think/action tank that engages all disciplines to study every form of substance abuse as it affects our society.

National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) their mission is to help create a society in which all persons who come into contact with the human service or correctional systems will be provided an environment of individual care, concern and treatment. NCIA is dedicated to developing quality programs and professional services that advocate timely intervention and unconditional care.

National Criminal Justice Association the NCJA represents state, tribal and local governments on crime prevention and crime control issues. Its members represent all facets of the criminal and juvenile justice community, from law enforcement, corrections, prosecution, defense, courts, victim-witness services and educational institutions to federal, state and local elected officials.

National Drug Strategy Network is working for effective approaches to address the world's many drug problems by sharing accurate information about drug control strategies.

National Major Gang Task Force is committed to providing leadership and information within the criminal justice system and other stakeholders to minimize the effects of security threat groups, gangs and terrorists in jails, prisons and communities.

November Coalition 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.

Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network: Criminal Justice Initiative the Criminal Justice Initiative signifies the Open Society Institute's strong commitment to reducing the excessive reliance on punishment and incarceration in the United States, and to promoting fair and equal treatment in all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system. The goal of the CJI is to promote criminal justice policies and practices that are sensible and fair, and to support the redirection of resources away from spending on prisons toward long-term solutions for safe and vibrant communities, including effective crime prevention and rehabilitation programs.

PASAN is a community-based network of prisoners, ex-prisoners, organizations, activists and individuals working together to provide advocacy, education, and support to prisoners on HIV/AIDS and related issues.

Patrick Crusade consists of a group of people committed to making a peaceful change in the policies and procedures that direct the actions of those responsible for operating our courts and our State and Federal prison systems.

Penal Reform International an international non-governmental organization whose goal is to develop programs on a regional basis, assisting both non-governmental organizations and individuals to establish projects in their own countries to improve the penal system and eliminate unfair practices.

Pretrial Services Resource Center is an independent, non-profit clearinghouse for information on pretrial issues and a technical assistance provider for pretrial practitioners, criminal justice officials, academicians, and community leaders nationwide.

Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) is committed to exposing and challenging the institutionalized racism of the criminal injustice system.

Prison Moratorium Project a nonprofit organization based in New York City that works locally and nationally to stop prison expansion and mass incarceration, and re-invest resources into communities most impacted by criminal justice policies through educational programs, alternatives-to-incarceration initiatives, housing and sustainable economic development.

Prison Professionals Speak Out for Justice this site contains first-hand accounts of daily prison life from the perspective of the people who staff America's prisons.

Prisoner Action Coalition (PAC) a collaborative student organization, with members at Boalt and Hastings Law Schools, who advocate to improve conditions in California's prisons and assist individual prisoners with legal matters.

Refuse & Resist is a non-partisan, national membership organization for everyone who refuses to go along with today's national agenda of repression and cruelty, poverty and punishment.

Resources for Educators and Activists provides dozens of annotated links, listed alphabetically on criminal justice activism and education.

Sentencing Project a non-profit organization which promotes decreased reliance on incarceration and increased use of more effective and humane alternatives and a nationally known source of criminal justice policy analysis, data and program information.

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights documents, exposes, and challenges human rights abuses within the United States criminal justice system. They combine policy reform, media advocacy, public education, grassroots organizing, direct-action mobilizing, cultural activism, new technology and legal services to accomplish their mission.

The Fortune Society is a not-for-profit community-based organization dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime. They also help ex-offenders and at-risk youth break the cycle of crime and incarceration through a broad range of services.

United for No Injustice, Oppression or Neglect (U.N.I.O.N.) a statewide communication network dedicated to reforming the criminal justice system in California.

Vera Institute of Justice an organization dedicated to developing unexpected yet practical and affordable solutions to some of the toughest problems in criminal justice and thereby making the system more fair, humane, and efficient for everyone.

Western Prison Project exists to coordinate a progressive response to the criminal justice system, and to build a grassroots, multi-racial movement that achieves prison reform and reduces the over-reliance on incarceration in the western states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada.

Worldadvocacy.com is the world's premier list of advocacy groups.