Support Organizations Directory
The prisoner support directory provides access to legal aid, counseling, and transition assistance for prisoners. Specialized services are available to address mental health, substance abuse, disability rights, and support families of prisoners and victims of crime. These services aim to improve the prison system and help prisoners lead productive lives.
New York: Support Organizations
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
FAMM seeks to create a more fair and effective justice system that respects our American values of individual accountability and dignity while keeping communities safe.
Re-Entry New York
Created for defense attorneys, civil legal services attorneys, and reentry advocates the manual details hundreds of consequences in New York State that flow from a criminal arrest or conviction, and strategies for navigating them. Every section has been updated with expanded citations to case law and useful practice tips
Prison Families of New York, Inc
https://prisonministry.net/PFNY
Organizing NYS prison families to become a constituency that will force changes in prison and parole policy and practice that will result in more families being able to survive--even do well during--the prison experience. Support groups, on-line support communities, learning how to speak out to the public, insisting on being at the table where the major decisions are made about NYS criminal justice issues.
Prison Families Alliance
https://prisonfamiliesalliance.org/new-york/
Network Support Service
Network is committed to working with the incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated individuals in the rebuilding of lives that become valuable resources in their home communities
New York Drop the Rock:
www.correctionalassociation.org/coalition/drop-the-rock-coalition
Drop the Rock, coordinated by the Correctional Association of New York, is a statewide alliance of individuals and organizations dedicated to downsizing New York’s prison system and reducing the disproportionate impact of incarceration on low-income communities of color
The Osborne Association: New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents –
http://www.osborneny.org/programs.cfm?programID=23
Peaceprints™ Prison Ministries –
Peaceprints™ Prison Ministries delivers a comprehensive continuum of services for individuals in prison, ex-offenders, and their families. Our programming falls under four main categories: In-Prison Support Groups; Re-entry Housing & Habilitation Services; Family Services; and Community Outreach
Women’s Prison Association –
(WPA) works with women at all stages of criminal justice involvement.
Alliance of Families for Justice:
Children of Promise, NYC
600 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11216 Phone: (718) 483-9290
Email: scontent@cpnyc.org
Website: www.cpnyc.org
Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC) is a community based organization located in Brooklyn that provides a year round, unique, integrated service model, that meets the distinctive needs of children with an incarcerated parent(s). CPNYC's mission is to provide our children with guidance, support, and the necessary resources to effectively develop leadership skills, form positive social relationship and enhance academic performance. Implementing the best practices of youth development, this innovative after-school and summer program infuses a mental health model.
New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents:
https://youth.gov/collaboration-profiles/ny-initiative-coip
Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York:
New Jersey: Support Organizations
Families Against Mandatory Minimums:
FAMM seeks to create a more fair and effective justice system that respects our American values of individual accountability and dignity while keeping communities safe.
The National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated:
https://nrccfi.camden.rutgers.edu/
New Jersey Prison Fellowship:
https://www.prisonfellowship.org/about/justicereform/legislation/state-issues/new-jersey/
New Jersey Department of Corrections Office of Transitional Services:
https://www.nj.gov/corrections/pages/ots.html
Prison Policy Initiative New Jersey:
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/resources/legal/NJ/
New Jersey Re-Entry:
Prison Families Alliance - New Jersey:
https://prisonfamiliesalliance.org/new-jersey/
Re-Entry Coalition of New Jersey:
https://reentrycoalitionofnj.org/
NJ-STEP Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons:
Florida: Support Organizations
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
FAMM seeks to create a more fair and effective justice system that respects our American values of individual accountability and dignity while keeping communities safe.
Florida Cares Charity
https://floridacarescharity.org/
Florida Institute of Justice
http://www.floridajusticeinstitute.org/
The Florida Justice Institute provides support for prisoners’ rights, housing discrimination, disability discrimination, and other areas that impact Florida’s prison families. (See “Areas of Advocacy”).
Prison Mindfulness Institute
https://www.prisonmindfulness.org/projects/network-directory/wpbdm-category/florida/
Florida Prison Fellowship
https://www.prisonfellowship.org/about/justicereform/legislation/state-issues/florida/
Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.
Florida Prison Watch
https://prisonwatchnetwork.org/category/florida/
Gathers information and reports on prison issues.
Texas: Support Organizations
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
FAMM seeks to create a more fair and effective justice system that respects our American values of individual accountability and dignity while keeping communities safe.
Texas Inmate Families Association
Texas Law Help Prisoner and Ex-Offender Resources
https://texaslawhelp.org/individual-rights/prisoner-ex-offender-resources
Prison Policy Initiative
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/resources/legal/TX/
Texas Attorney General Guide – Child Support Division
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/child-support/programs-and-initiatives/incarcerated-parents
Human Rights Watch – Texas Prison Resources
https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/07/20/texas-prison-resources
Texas Prison Phone
Alabama: Support Organizations
Alabama Department of Corrections Re-Entry Resources
https://doc.alabama.gov/ReentryResources
Alabama Department of Corrections Re-Rentry and Pre-Release Program
https://doc.alabama.gov/reentryinfo
Southern Center for Human Rights – Alabama Reentry Resource Guide 2020
https://www.schr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SCHR-Alabama-Reentry-Guide-rev-12.30.20.pdf
ACLU of Alabama
Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
Mississippi: Support Organizations
NAACP Mississippi
Southern Poverty Law Center
Mississippi Center for Legal Services
https://mscenterforlegalservices.org/