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All of Us Or None is a national organizing initiative of prisoners, former prisoners and felons, to combat the many forms of discrimination that we face as the result of felony convictions. After serving time in torturous conditions, we were met at the gate with prejudice and discrimination that made our re-entry into society difficult and in some cases impossible. Many of us recognize that our prison sentence never ends as long as the discrimination against us continues. |
CCWP is a grassroots racial justice organization that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women and communities of color by prisons and the criminal justice system. We are building a movement with women prisoners, family members of prisoners, and the larger communities through organizing, leadership development, and political education. |
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Families United for Prison Reform is a California public benefit nonprofit corporation. We are currently sponsoring two initiatives for the 2008 General Presidential Election in California. These initiatives have received their official Title and Summary from the Attorney General on September 27. We have until February 25, 2008 to collect a minimum of 433,971 signatures to qualify for the ballot. |
The mission for which California Prison Focus is organized is to end human rights abuses and torture in California prisons including abolishing the Security Housing Units, to end medical neglect and to insure civil and human rights for all prisoners. CPF achieves its purposes by visiting prisoners, monitoring conditions, educating the public and policymakers, providing a voice for and working with prisoners, and encouraging legal advocacy. |
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The California Prison Moratorium Project seeks to stop all public and private prison construction in California. The money saved from California's prison construction budget should be used to fund and actively pursue alternatives to imprisonment 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. Most people who are being put in prison do not need to be removed from society and could effectively be diverted into community-based programs. Since the majority of people are being sent to prison for non-violent drug-related or economic crimes, we believe these people should have access to drug treatment and/or economic assistance (such as education, affordable childcare, job training and placement, or welfare) instead of prison terms. Even the diminishing percentage of people convicted of violent offenses can be helped outside the prison system, through programs that address aggressive behavior and abusive relationships, and drug and alcohol treatment. |
Centerforce works with prisoners and their families, providing advocacy and support: family reunification, parenting, health education, HIV prevention |
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Books Not Bars is a statewide campaign aiming to shut down California’s abusive and costly youth prisons and replace them with alternatives that work – like regional rehabilitation centers and community-based programs. |
Organization dedicated to ending the Three Strikes = 25 to Life sentencing in the State of California. |
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Our mission is to end violence against women and stop their imprisonment. We believe that prisons and policing are not making our communities safe and whole but that, in fact, the current system severely damages the people it imprisons and the communities most affected by it. We promote alternatives to policing and prisons and challenge the prison industrial complex in all its forms. |
This website is made by and for family and friends with a loved one inside Kern Valley State Prison |
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Students in PAC advocate to improve conditions in California's prisons and assist individual prisoners with legal matters. |
Organization dedicated to assisting families affected by incarceration by providing many avenues of support. Will be opening a hospitality house in the near future. Also working to develop programs and classes to help our families. |
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Two point four million American children have a parent behind bars today. Seven million, or one in ten of the nation’s children, have a parent under criminal justice supervision—in jail or prison, on probation, or on parole. Little is known about what becomes of children when their parents are incarcerated. There is no requirement that the various institutions charged with dealing with those accused of breaking the law—police, courts, jails and prisons, probation departments—inquire about children’s existence, much less concern themselves with children’s care. Conversely, there is no requirement that systems serving children—schools, child welfare, juvenile justice—address parental incarceration. Children of prisoners have a daunting array of needs. They need a safe place to live and people to care for them in their parents’ absence, as well as everything else a parent might be expected to provide: food, clothing, medical care. But beyond these material requirements, young people themselves identify less tangible, but equally compelling, needs. They need to be told the truth about their parents’ situation. They need someone to listen without judging, so that their parents’ status need not remain a secret. They need the companionship of others who share their experience, so they can know they are not alone. They need contact with their parents—to have that relationship recognized and valued even under adverse circumstances. And—rather than being stigmatized for their parents’ actions or status—they need to be treated with respect, offered opportunity, and recognized as having potential. |
Offers model programs, public education, and policy research around alternatives to incarceration, sentencing and reentry issues, drug policy reform, and social justice issues. |
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"TiPS: Building Partnerships, Reforming Corrections, Improving Public Safety." TiPS is a union of victims of violent crime, offenders, and their advocates partnering together to restore common sense to public safety. |
VSPW Inmate Family Council. IFC at Valley State Prison for Women provides information about visiting, quarterly packages, and mail pertaining to a family member or loved one incarcerated at this California State Prison (CDC) in Chowchilla, California |
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