The Sentencing Project works to eliminate mandatory sentencing. Their web site provides excellent data on how inequitable our judicial and correctional systems have become as well as news related to “enfranchinging” ex-offenders.
The Innocence Project and the Northwestern University Law School’s Center on Wrongful Convictions are two organizations working to exonerate those who are wrongfully convicted. Their web sites include the stories of many men and women who were unjustly condemned and imprisoned. You can also watch stories of wrongful convictions on YouTube
Prison Fellowship International is a global organization advocating for prisoners and their families, the restorative justice model and elimination of the death penalty around the world. To learn more about Restorative Justice link HERE
CLAIM is Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers and works to redress the damage caused to children due to having their mother removed from them. They also provide legal educational classes to women who are detained or imprisoned to help them retain their parental rights.
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Tongue on Fire 
About the injustice of solitary confinement because of what it does to the brain: “[E]very year, thousands of inmates leave solitary cells to join the ranks of parolees outside prison, their minds altered by an experience so fraught with risk that scientists require special dispensation to [put] animals [in solitary].” Read the full article here: http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/what-solitary-confinement-does-to-the-brain/
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Here is another article about the “Special Housing Unit” at Menard Correctional Center in Illinois. There is nothing “special” about solitary confinement. It is torture for the 350+ men who have been segregated for more than a year.
Click to access 45%20Square%20Feet.pdf
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