No More Shackles, Micah Bazant; Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Digital Print, Berkeley, CA, 2013
ORGANIZATIONS, SERVICES & RESOURCES • ORGANIZATIONS, SERVICES & RESOURCES • ORGANIZATIONS, SERVICES & RESOURCES Organizations, Services and Resources –continued from page 8. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 441 Los Angeles, CA 90064 310.477.5540 www.hrw.org/en/los-angeles www.hrw.org/san-francisco INNOCENCE PROJECT The Innocence Project’s full-time staff attorneys and Cardozo clinic students provide direct representation or critical assistance. The Innocence Project’s groundbreaking use of DNA technology to free innocent people has provided irrefutable proof that wrongful convictions are not isolated or rare events but instead arise from systemic defects. Now an independent nonprofit organization closely affiliated with Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, the Innocence Project’s mission is nothing less than to free the staggering numbers of innocent people who remain incarcerated and to bring substantive reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. If you are seeking legal assistance, please read the following guidelines for submitting your case. All cases for consideration should be mailed (to the address below) with a brief factual summary of the case, including the specific charges and convictions and a list of the evidence used against the defendant. No other documents should be submitted for initial review. The Innocence Project is not equipped to handle telephone or electronic (email) applications. 40 Worth St., Suite 701 New York, NY 10013 212.364.5340 info@innocenceproject.org www.innocenceproject.org/ JUST DETENTION INTER<strong>NATION</strong>AL Since 1980, JDI has worked to end the sexual abuse of detainees in the U.S. and around the world. No matter what crime someone might have committed, rape is not part of the penalty. JDI has three core goals for its work: to ensure government accountability for prisoner rape; to transform illinformed public attitudes about sexual violence in detention; and to promote access to resources for those who have survived this form of abuse. Note: If you are incarcerated, please feel free to communicate with JDI using legal mail, addressing your correspondence to: Cynthia Totten, Esq. 3325 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 340 Los Angeles, CA 90010 213.384.1400 • info@justdetention.org www.justdetention.org/ JUSTICE NOT JAILS In November, 2012, California Faith Action launched Justice Not Jails, a multiyear campaign designed to aggregate and enhance the faith community’s involvement in working against racialized mass incarceration in California. Progressive Christians Uniting 634 S. Spring Street, Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90014 213.625.0149 • admin@pcu-la.org www.justicenotjails.org THE LABOR/COMMUNITY STRATEGY CENTER Schools, Not Pre-Prisons Campaign The Community Rights Campaign is organizing in L.A. high schools and among L.A.'s 500,000 low-income bus riders to build campaigns to push back the growing police/prison state and push forward an expanded social welfare state; push back the police/prisons/punishment approach to organizing society and push forward a resources/ reparations/redistribution approach. We organize high school students in after school clubs to stop the school-to-prison pipeline and the schools-as-jails culture in favor of building a positive, empowered learning environment. Real public safety will be achieved only by challenging the Prison/Police State–not allying with it. 3780 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1200 L.A., CA 90010 213.387.2800 www.thestrategycenter.org/project/community-rights-campaign LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK (LA CAN) The mission of LA CAN is to help people dealing with poverty create and discover opportunities while serving as a vehicle to ensure they have voice, power and opinion in the decisions that are directly affecting them. Our overarching goals focused on social change are: to organize and to empower community residents to work collectively to change the relationships of power that affect our community; to create an organization and organizing model that eradicates the race, class, gender barriers that are used to prevent communities from building true power; and to eliminate the multiple forms of violence used against and within our community to maintain status quo. 530 S. Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90013 213.228.0024 beckyd@cangress.org www.cangress.org LEGAL SERVICES FOR <strong>PRISON</strong>ERS WITH CHILDREN The mission of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children is to advocate for the civil rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration by responding to requests for information, trainings, technical assistance, litigation, community activism and the development of more advocates. Our focus is on women prisoners and their families and we emphasize that issues of race are central to any discussion of incarceration. 1540 Market St., Suite 490 San Francisco, CA 94102 415. 255.7036 info@prisonerswithchildren.org www.prisonerswithchildren.org A NEW PATH A New PATH works to reduce the stigma associated with addictive illness through education and compassionate support and to advocate for therapeutic rather than punitive drug policies. P.O. Box 3644 #264 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 619.670.1184 • anewpath@cox.net A NEW WAY OF LIFE A New Way of Life Reentry Project provides housing and support services to formerly incarcerated women in South Central Los Angeles, facilitating a successful transition back to community life. As a community advocate, A New Way Of Life works to restore the civil rights of people with criminal records to housing, employment, public benefits and the right to vote. PO Box 875288, Los Angeles, CA 90087 323.563.3575 info@anewwayoflife.org www.anewwayoflife.org 13. NO MORE JAIL LA COALITION We meet 2-3 Sundays a month, 5 pm, at the: Chuco’s Justice Center 1137 E. Redondo Blvd. Inglewood, CA 90302 213.864.8931 diana@curbprisonspending.org or masutton2@earthlink.net <strong>PRISON</strong> ACTIVIST RESOURCE CENTER (PARC) PARC is a prison abolitionist group committed to exposing and challenging all forms of institutionalized racism, sexism, able-ism, heterosexism and classism, specifically within the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). PARC believes in building strategies and tactics that build safety in our communities without reliance on the police or the PIC. We produce a directory that is free to prisoners upon request. We seek to work in solidarity with prisoners, exprisoners, their friends and families. PO Box 70447 Oakland, CA 94612 510.893.4648 • prisonactivist@gmail.com www.prisonactivist.org <strong>PRISON</strong> LAW OFFICE The Prison Law Office provides free legal services to California state prisoners and occasionally to California state parolees. Our assistance is generally limited to cases regarding conditions of confinement. We are also happy to provide self-help and informational materials to prisoners, some of which are published on this website, including a habeas corpus manual, parolee rights manual, and personal injury lawsuit packet, as well as material regarding administrative remedies, divorce, guard brutality, immigration, loss of personal property, plea bargains, release dates, workers' compensation and worktime credits. If you or a family member have an issue that you believe we can assist with, please feel free to contact our office. Letters concerning individual prisoners and prison conditions can be addressed to: Prison Law Office General Delivery San Quentin, CA 94964 Due to the large number of inquiries, we cannot accept telephone calls from prisoners and their families. www.prisonlaw.com <strong>PRISON</strong> LEGAL NEWS Prison Legal News is an independent 56-page monthly magazine that provides a cutting edge review and analysis of prisoner rights, court rulings and news about prison issues. PLN has a national focus on both state and federal prison issues, with international coverage as well. PLN provides information that enables prisoners and other concerned individuals and organizations to seek the protection and enforcement of prisoner's rights at the grass roots level. P.O. Box 2420 West Brattleboro, VT 05303 802.257.1342 pwright@prisonlegalnews.org www.prisonlegalnews.org <strong>PRISON</strong> LIBRARY PROJECT The mission of the PLP is to provide reading material free of charge to inmates nationwide. The PLP also serves prison chaplains and librarians, drug/alcohol recovery groups, domestic abuse and HIV/AIDS support groups and others within the immediate community. Our goal is to address issues of literacy and promote personal responsibility, reflection and growth. Prison Library Project 586 West 1st Street Claremont, CA 91711-3356 www.claremontforum.org <strong>PRISON</strong> RADIO Prison Radio’s mission is to challenge mass incarceration and racism by airing the voices of men and women in prison by bringing their voices into the public dialogue on crime and punishment. Our educational materials serve as a catalyst for public activism. Prison Radio’s productions illustrate the perspectives and the intrinsic human worth of the more than 7.1 million people under correctional control in the U.S. P.O. Box 411074 San Francisco, CA 94141 415.648.4505 • info@prisonradio.org www.prisonradio.org TGI JUSTICE MISSION TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender people—inside and outside of prison—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. TGI works to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. Our goal is to create a world rooted in self determination, freedom of expression and gender justice. 342 9th Street, Suite 202B San Francisco, CA 94103 415.252.1444 • info@tgijp.org www.tgijp.org TIME FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION Our programs provide the women and children we serve with the necessary tools to recover from homelessness, drug addiction, family separation, mental and physical abuse and the effects of incarceration. Through advocacy efforts of Time for Change Foundation's H.E.L.P project, the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino has enacted policies and created procedures that provide a fair and equal opportunity for housing to persons with past felony convictions. P.O. Box 5753 San Bernardino, CA 92412 909. 886.2994 info@TimeForChangeFoundation.org TURNING THE TIDE Turning the Tide newspaper is free to prisoners and GIs for a free sample copy, write to: ARA-LA/People Against Racist Terror PO Box 1055 Culver City, CA 90232 310.495.0299 • arala@yahoo www.antiracistaction.org THE REAL COST OF <strong>PRISON</strong>S PROJECT The Real Cost of Prisons Project seeks to broaden and deepen the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists working to end mass incarceration. They bring together justice activists, artists, justice policy researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to create popular education materials and other resources which explore the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration. 5 Warfield Place Northampton, MA 01060 info@realcostofprisons.org www.realcostofprisons.org THE YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION (YJC) YJC is working with youth, family and the formerly incarcerated movement to challenge race, gender and class inequality and to dismantle policies and institutions that ensure the massive lock-up of people of color that promote widespread police violence, corruption and distrust between police and communities; that disregard youth and communities’ Constitutional and human rights; the encourage construction of a vicious school-to-jail track and the build-up of the world’s largest network of juvenile halls, jails and prisons. The YJC uses direct action organizing, advocacy, political education, transformative justice and activist arts to mobilize system-involved youth, families and our allies – both in the community and within lock-ups – to bring about change. Chuco’s Justice Center 1137 E. Redondo Blvd. Inglewood, CA 90302 323.235-4243 freelanow@yahoo.co www.youth4justice.org
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