Web Sites:  

Prisons/Prisoners

  • 360degrees: Perspectives on the American Criminal Justice System 
    First-person stories of inmates, corrections officers, victims of crime, judges and others.
  • American Civil Liberties Union: Prisoner's Rights 
    The ACLU National Prison Project is dedicated to ensuring that our nation’s prisons, jails, and other places of detention comply with the Constitution, domestic law, and international human rights principles and to ending the policies that have given the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world.
  • American Correctional Association 
    Represents professionals from all facets of corrections & criminal justice, including federal, state and military correctional facilities.
  • Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 
    A private non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social problems.
  • Correctional Education Association 
    A non-profit, professional association serving educators and administrators who provide services to students in correctional settings.
  • The Crime Report 
    A news service covering criminal justice that is published daily by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
  • Death Penalty Curricula for High School 
    This site is designed to assist both teachers and students in an exploration of capital punishment, presenting arguments for and against its use, as well as issues of ethics and justice that surround it.
  • National Reentry Resource Center 
    The National Reentry Resource Center provides education, training, and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, non-profit organizations and corrections institutions working on prisoner reentry.
  • Pew Public Safety 
    The Public Safety Performance Project seeks to help states advance fiscally sound, data-driven policies and practices in sentencing and corrections that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control corrections costs.
  • Prison Fellowship Ministries 
    Prison Fellowship is a Christian ministry responding to the needs of prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims and those affected by crime.
  • The Sentencing Project 
    An independent source of criminal justice policy analysis, data and program information for the public and policy-makers.
  • UNICOR 
    UNICOR is the trade name for Federal Prison Industries, Inc., a self-sustaining enterprise, that sells services products made by inmates of federal prisons.
  • US Department of Justice: Federal Bureau of Prisons 
    The Federal prison system is a nationwide system of prisons (118 institutions) and detention facilities for the incarceration of inmates who have been sentenced to imprisonment for Federal crimes and the detention of individuals awaiting trial in Federal court. The federal prison population was 218,541 on September 29, 2012, 47.7% were there for drug offenses and 11.9% for immigration offenses.
  • US Department of Justice: National Institute of Corrections 
    The NIC is the federal center for correctional education and training.
  • The Vera Institute of Justice 
    The Vera Institute of Justice does research in justice systems to make them fairer.
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