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
First Friends of New Jersey and New York
- purpose: upholds the inherent dignity and humanity of immigrants who are impacted by the immigration enforcement system
- more info: Charity Navigator
Carolina Migrant Network
- purpose: to provide legal services for individuals in removal proceedings
- more info: Charity Navigator, Immigration Advocates Network
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
Freedom for Immigrants
- purpose: an abolitionist organization that envisions a world without prisons or cages of any kind
- more info: Charity Navigator, Giving Compass
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