Link Topics

• Civil Liberties
  
• Legal Assistance
• Clearinghouses
  
• Police Abuse Issues
  
• Prisoners Rights
  
• Restorative Justice
  
• Juvenile Justice Options
  

• Private Prisons
  
• Justice Reform
• Human Rights
• BLOGS

Research and Science

• Trauma and Violence
• Social Psychology
• Neuroscience
• Sociocultural

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Civil Liberties

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Bill of Rights Defense Committee
• Center for Constitutional Rights
• Civil Liberties Defense Center
• Civil Rights Coalition
• Human Rights Watch
• Lawyers Committee of Civil Rights Under Law
• National Immigration Project
• National Lawyers Guild
• New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
• Ohio Justice and Policy Center
• Save Our Civil Liberties
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice
• Texas Civil Rights Project
• The Sentencing Project

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Legal Assistance & Information

• CLAIM Legal aid for women prisoners and their families
  
• FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources
  
• Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual is a book about legal issues of importance to criminal defendants and prisoners published by students at Columbia Law School.  Chapters available online for free.
  
• ‘Lectric Law Library
  
• Legal Action Center
  
• Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and their November 2010 report: “California’s Mother-Infant Prison Programs: An Investigation“.
• North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc.
  
• Prisoners Rights Resource Guide
  
• Vanguard Research Services – on-line low-budget legal research services
  

Organizations of Law Enforcement Professionals

• AELE Law Enforcement Legal Center
• PoliceOne.com

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Federal and Military Agencies

• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
• Civil Rights Division
• Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• United States Attorney General (USAG)
• United States Department of Justice (DOJ)
• United States Secret Service
• Unites States Marshals Service
• US Attorneys’ Offices (by State)

Clearinghouses

• The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
• The Sentencing Project's Race and Justice Clearinghouse

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Police Abuse Issues

• Berkeley Copwatch
  
• Citizens Alert: Working for Humane Law Enforcement Chicago, IL
• Coalicion de Derechos Humanos Tucson, AZ
• Communities United Against Police Brutality
• Ella Baker Center
• First Defense Legal Aid
• Houston Area Coalition for Police Accountability http://www.hpjc.org/
• Injustice Everywhere
• Massachusetts Western Copwatch
• National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement
• Phoenix Copwatch
• Photography Is Not A Crime
• Police Assessment Resource Center
• Portland Copwatch
• Prison Legal News
• Pueblo Oakland, CA
• Strategies for Youth
• Toronto Police Accountability Coalition
• Truth in Justice

Prosecutorial Misconduct

• The Open File:  A website about prosecutorial misconduct
  

Prisoners Rights

• ACLU National Prison Project
  
• Prison Legal News
• Prisoners Legal Services in Boston
• Prisoners Legal Services in New York

Wrongful Conviction

• The Innocence Project
• Center on Wrongful Convictions:  Northwestern University: School of Law
• Online National Registry of Exonerations Database
  
• The Innocence Network
• Life After Exoneration

Advocacy & General Information

• Alliance of Incarcerated Canadians in American Prisons
  
• Annie E Casey Foundation
  
• American Correctional Association
  
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Correctional Education Association

• Corrections Connection
  
• Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
  
• Critical Resistance
  
• Earned Income Credit and Child Tax Credit
  
• Efficacy
  
• FASTEN (Faith & Service Technical Education Network) 
  
• Fatherhood Educational Institute
  
• Florida State University Criminal Justice Links
  
• Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development
  
• Grandsplace
• Northwest Regional  Educational Laboratory National Mentoring Center
  
• Join Together
  
• Justice Information Center: National Criminal Justice Reference Service
  
• National Center on Fathers and Families
  
• National Center on Institutions and Alternatives
  
• National Directory of Programs for Women with Criminal Justice Involvement
  
• National Fatherhood Initiative
  
• National Institute of Corrections
  
• National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute
  
• National Prison Hospice Association
  
• NIC Information Center
  
• Penal Reform International 
  
• Prison Policy Initiative

Families of Incarcerated

• Hope House Resources for Children of Prisoners
• The Rebecca Project for Human Rights of the National Women’s Law Center. Mothers Behind Bars  gives a state-by-state report card and analysis of federal policies on conditions of confinement for pregnant and parenting women and the effect on their children.

• San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents
• The National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Family & Corrections Network
• Barnard Center for Research on Women – Children of Incarcerated Parents – Spring 2010 Issues of “The Scholar and Feminist Online” webjournal.

Restorative Justice

• Open Society Justice Initiative
  
• Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
  
• Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Campaign
  
• Restorative Justice — Prison Fellowship International
  
• RJ Online
  
• South Africa — RJ Online
  
• International Institute for Restorative Practices
• Minnie Driver Video on Restorative Justice | Give Forgiveness / Take Justice
• ABA Zero Tolerance Policy
  
• Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) Info. and Resource Center
  
• Vera Institute of Justice
• Bridges to Life: A Promising In-Prison Restorative Justice Intervention
  
• Transforming Attitudes Towards Offending
• The Sycamore Tree Project®

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Juvenile Justice Options 

The Models for Change Resource Center Partnership.
Developed through the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice initiative

Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Collaborative for Change
a training, technical assistance, and education center designed to promote and support adoption of new resources, tools, and program models to help the field better respond to youth with mental health needs in the juvenile justice system.

National Juvenile Defender Center
builds the capacity of the juvenile defense bar and improves access to counsel and quality of representation for children in the justice system. NJDC bolsters juvenile defense by replicating field-driven innovations, facilitating adoption of new juvenile justice defense standards, and developing a corps of certified juvenile indigent defense trainers.

Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice
Uses proven models, frameworks, tools, resources and the best available research to serve local, state, and national leaders, practitioners and youth-serving agencies to improve system performance and outcomes for youth involved with the juvenile justice system.  Focuses primarily on youth with prior or current involvement in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems (known as dually-involved youth) and on the review and improvement of juvenile probation systems.

Status Offense Reform Center 
(The Vera Institute of Justice)
Serves as a resource clearinghouse and assistance center for practitioners and policymakers in juvenile justice, with a focus on encouraging and showcasing strategies to safely and effectively divert non-delinquent youth, and their families, from the formal juvenile justice system.

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• National Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Coalition
• Campaign 4 Youth Justice
  
• Center for Children's Law and Policy
• Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
  
• Coalition for Juvenile Justice
  
• Juvenile Law Center
• Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (JJPL)
• Juvenile Justice Update by the Civic Research Institute
  
• Campaign for Youth Justice: Youth Justice Awareness Month (YJAM) 
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) 
  

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Research Resources

• The Kellog Foundation
  
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
  
• Casey Family Programs
  
• Urban Institute
  
• Jane Addams College of Social Work
  
• Chapin Hall
  

Human Rights

• Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) – Works to deter torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world by helping survivors hold their persecutors accountable.
• Canadian Centre for International Justice/Centre Canadien pour la justice internationale (CCJI) - A charitable organisation that works with survivors of genocide, torture and other atrocities to seek redress and bring perpetrators to justice.
• Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) – A non-profit legal and educational organisation dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH)
• REDRESS
• Interights
• Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) - Defends human rights before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Justice Reform

• Equal Justice Initiative
• Evidence-Based Public Policy Options to Reduce Future Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime Rates
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums
• Justice Fellowship
• Justice Policy Institute
• Nation Inside
• PEN American Center Prison Writing Program
  
• Pew Center on the States Public Safety Performance Project
• Innocence Project
• Prisonmovement's Weblog
• Reclaiming Futures
• Restorative Justice Online
• Thousand Kites
• Voice of Witness
• Women's Prison Association

• Private Prison Divestment Campaign - Nation Inside
  

Re-Entry Organizations

• Resurrection after Exonoration
• Voices of Formerly Incarcerated Persons, VOTE

University Centers and Clinics

• McArthur Justice Center

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Prisoner Resources

• Prisoners of the Census
  
• Prisons Foundation
  
• PrisonSucks.com
  
• ProYouthWork America
  
• Sentencing Project
  
• State Corrections Directory
  
• Vera Institute of Justice

Child Advocacy

• The Child Advocate
  
• Voices for America's Children
  
• Children’s Defense Fund
• National Association of Child Advocates 
• National Association of Counsel for Children
  

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Research and Science

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• The Crime Report  (TCR) 
  

Trauma and Violence

• SNAP Research Laboratory
  
• PTSD: Stress and Resilience (video)
  
• Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence  
  
• International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
  
• ESTSS - European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
• National Ctr for Children Exposed to Violence: Yale 
• National Center for PTSD--PILOTS Database
  
• The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD
• Am. Professional Society on Abuse of Children (APSAC) 
  
• Assess Suicidal Behaviors & Risk Among Children & Adolescents
  
• Child Abuse Prevention Network. 
• Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Resources Links
• Closed Head Injury
  
• First Impressions: Chronic Exposure to Violence & A Child's Developing Brain

Social Psychology

• Global Dignity & Humiliation Assessment Initiative
  
• Harvard's Health and Psychophysiology Laboratory
• Social Psychology Network
• The Situationist 
• The Project on Law and Mind Sciences
• Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things
• Moral Sense Test (MST)
• The Lucifer Effect
• Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research
• National Stigma Clearinghouse
• Positive Exposure
• Archives for mental models: Joshua Kennon

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BLOGS

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improving police: ONE CHIEF'S LIFELONG MISSION TO IMPROVE OUR NATION'S POLICE

Be Exceptional — Police Cmdr. Kristen Ziman

Modern Policing — Prof. Gary Cordner 

Blue Courage: Ethics for a modern police.

On This We Stand: The 12 Qualities Necessary for a Free and Democratic Police