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
National Hepatitis Corrections Network
- purpose: support a public health approach to hepatitis education, prevention, testing, and treatment in prisons and jails
- more info: Charity Navigator, Prison Activist Resource Center
Tap Social Movement
- social enterprise providing training and employment for people in prison and people leaving prison, provides event and venue spaces, sells craft beer, runs a bakery and a brewery More info: Social Enterprise UK, Clinks
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
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
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
Voice of the Experienced
- purpose: dedicated to restoring the full human and civil rights of those most impacted by the criminal (in)justice system
- more info: Charity Navigator
Voices for a Second Chance
- purpose: to provide the support and services that men and women who have been incarcerated need to rebuild their lives
- more info: Spur Local
Freedom Education Project Puget Sound
- purpose: provides an accredited college program for incarcerated women, trans-identified and gender nonconforming people in Washington and creates pathways to higher education after students are released from prison
- more info: Charity Navigator
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
Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison
- purpose: provides college education, life skills, and reentry support to currently and formerly incarcerated people so they can make a positive impact on their own lives, their families, and communities, resulting in lower rates of recidivism and higher rates of employment, community regeneration, cohesiveness, and reciprocity
- 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
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
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
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