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.

Support Organizations

New York: Support Organizations

Families Against Mandatory Minimums

https://famm.org/

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

https://www.reentry.net/ny/

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

http://www.networkssi.org/

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 –

http://peaceprintswny.org/

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 –

http://www.wpaonline.org/

(WPA) works with women at all stages of criminal justice involvement.

Alliance of Families for Justice: 

https://afj-ny.org/

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: 

https://plsny.org/

 

New Jersey: Support Organizations

Families Against Mandatory Minimums:

https://famm.org/

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:

https://www.njreentry.org/

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:

https://njstep.newark.rutgers.edu/

Florida: Support Organizations

Families Against Mandatory Minimums

https://famm.org/

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

https://famm.org/

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

https://tifa.org/

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

https://www.texasprisonphone.com/

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

https://www.aclualabama.org/

Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama

https://eji.org/

Mississippi: Support Organizations

NAACP Mississippi

http://naacpms.org/

Southern Poverty Law Center

https://www.splcenter.org/

Mississippi Center for Legal Services

https://mscenterforlegalservices.org/

Mississippi Access to Justice Commission

https://www.msatjc.org/

Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance

https://yourmira.org/

Mississippi Co-Occurring Re-Entry Program (MSCORP)

https://bja.ojp.gov/funding/awards/2016-rw-bx-0005

Georgia: Support Organizations

Georgia Justice Project

https://gjp.org/

ACLU of Georgia

https://www.acluga.org/

Southern Center for Human Rights

https://www.schr.org/

Southern Prison Ministry, The Open Door Community

https://opendoorcommunity.org/

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