F2L Network
- purpose: to end the incarceration of Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color who are queer, trans, and Two-Spirit in NY
- more info: Charity Navigator
Operation Restoration
- purpose: support women and girls impacted by incarceration to recognize their full potential, restore their lives and discover new possibilities
- more info: Charity Navigator
Friends Outside in Los Angeles County
- purpose: to assist children and families, prisoners, and former prisoners with the immediate and long-term effects of incarceration, and to act as a bridge between those we serve, the community at large, and the criminal justice system, thereby enhancing the character of justice
- more info: Charity Navigator
Community Works
- purpose: to transform justice through programs and policy rooted in humanity and healing
- more info: Giving Compass, Charity Navigator
Texas Jail Project
- purpose: to liberate communities by organizing with, and advocating for, people incarcerated in Texas county jails and their loved ones
- more info: Charity Navigator
Prison Phone Justice
- purpose: to provide current information on the high costs of phone calls from state prisons and county jails
- more info: Charity Navigator
Texas Defender Service
- purpose: fight for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education
- more info: Charity Navigator
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
- purpose: to work for an end to mass incarceration, detention, and deportation and to seek dignity, freedom, and equity for people suffering under the weight of oppressive policies and institutions
- more info: Charity Navigator, Sojourners
Project POOCH
- purpose: providing life-changing opportunities for adjudicated youth and shelter dogs
- more info: Charity Navigator, GlobalGiving, Wikipedia
Hearts on a Wire
- purpose: a grassroots inside/outside prison advocacy organization working to address the needs of transgender people in Pennsylvania’s prisons
- more info: Charity Navigator
Network Support Services
- purpose: empower incarcerated people to transform their lives and re-enter the community as productive citizens with a renewed sense of purpose
- more info: Charity Navigator
Emancipate NC
- purpose: to dismantle structural racism and mass incarceration in North Carolina
- more info: Charity Navigator
Colorado Freedom Fund
- purpose: help facilitate pretrial liberty for people who cannot afford the cost of money bond and lead the policy work to advance lasting change in Colorado through legislation and legal advocacy
- more info: Charity Navigator, National Bail Fund Network
Children's Legal Defense Center
- purpose: a nonprofit legal assistance organization in Hargeisa, Somaliland that defends wrongfully and unjustly imprisoned children
- more info: GlobalGiving
Paws For Life K9 Rescue
- purpose: saves and transforms the lives of animals and people through innovative canine-centered programs that provide purpose, support, and opportunity
- more info: Charity Navigator, The Forward, Petfinder
Storycatchers Theatre
- purpose: guides young people to transform their traumatic experiences into powerful musical theatre, inspiring them to develop the courage and vision to become leaders and mentors
- more info: Charity Navigator
Children of Prisoners Europe
- purpose: to safeguard the social, political and judicial inclusion of children with an imprisoned parent, while fostering the pursuit and exchange of knowledge which enhances good practices, and contributes to a better understanding of the psychological, emotional and social development of these children
- more info: GlobalGiving, Wikipedia
Innocence Project of Florida
- purpose: to find and free the innocent in Florida prisons, help exonerees transition back into a changed society, and work to reform the criminal justice system
- more info: Charity Navigator
Freedom Project
- purpose: works alongside the community to dismantle systems of oppression and heal from the traumatic effects on people who are targeted and impacted by incarceration, on their loved ones, and on our community
- more info: Charity Navigator
AdvocAid
- purpose: works with girls and women caught up in Sierra Leone’s unjust legal system
- more info: GlobalGiving
Undikumbukire Project Zambia
- purpose: to support children in conflict with the law through legal representation, social support, and advocacy to achieve restorative justice in Zambia
- more info: GlobalGiving
Amistad Law Project
- purpose: organizing to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania
- more info: Charity Navigator
Alyssa Rodriguez Center for Gender Justice
- purpose: strengthens movements for gender justice across prison walls, fights gender-based violence, and eliminates barriers to political participation for incarcerated survivors and other grassroots advocates
- more info: Charity Navigator, Give OUT Day
Oregon Innocence Project
- purpose: to exonerate the wrongfully convicted, train law students, and promote legal reforms aimed at preventing wrongful convictions
- more info: Charity Navigator
Essie Justice Group
- purpose: to harness the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration's harm to women and communities
- more info: Charity Navigator, Giving Compass
Music on the Inside
- purpose: connects youth and adults impacted by incarceration with professional musicians as teachers and mentors to bring hope and healing through the transformative power of music
- more info: Giving Compass
Pennsylvania Prison Society
- purpose: to protect the health, safety, and dignity of all incarcerated people
- more info: Charity Navigator
Prison Policy Initiative
- purpose: produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society
- more info: Charity Navigator, Wikipedia
Prisoners' Legal Services of New York
- purpose: to provide high quality, effective legal representation and assistance to indigent prisoners, help them to secure their civil and human rights and advocate for more humane prisons and for a more humane criminal justice system
- more info: Charity Navigator