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
Cabrini Green Legal Aid
- purpose: provide holistic legal services that include social support services and advocacy for individuals and communities negatively impacted by the criminal legal system
- more info: Charity Navigator
Children's Legal Defense Center
- purpose: a nonprofit legal assistance organization in Hargeisa, Somaliland that defends wrongfully and unjustly imprisoned children
- more info: GlobalGiving
The Center for Death Penalty Litigation
- purpose: a non-profit law firm that represents people on North Carolina’s death row and serves as a clearinghouse for accurate and timely information about the North Carolina death penalty
- more info: Charity Navigator
Texas Fair Defense Project
- purpose: to fight to end the criminalization of poverty in Texas
- more info: Charity Navigator, Giving Compass
Abolitionist Law Center
- purpose: a public interest law firm and community organizing project that challenges the criminal punishment system in Pennsylvania
- more info: Charity Navigator, Giving Compass
Innocence Project of Texas
- purpose: dedicated to correcting past injustices, preventing future wrongful convictions, and giving hope to people who feel that they are out of options
- more info: Charity Navigator
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
School Justice Project
- purpose: uses special education law to ensure that older, court-involved students with disabilities can access a quality education
- more info: Charity Navigator, Spur Local
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
Amistad Law Project
- purpose: organizing to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania
- more info: Charity Navigator
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
AdvocAid
- purpose: works with girls and women caught up in Sierra Leone’s unjust legal system
- more info: GlobalGiving
Headfort Foundation for Justice
- purpose: to significantly improve access to justice in Nigeria through human rights advocacy, legal aid, and innovative technology solutions
- more info: GlobalGiving
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
Center for Appellate Litigation
- purpose: dedicated to the pursuit of equal justice under the law for indigent New Yorkers in their criminal appeals and other post-conviction proceedings
- more info: Charity Navigator