MEDIA RESOURCES
The Appeal
Highlights the human impact of our criminal justice system and holds public officials to account
The Inquest
A forum for advancing bold decarceral ideas from the Institute to End Mass Incarceration
Injustice Watch
Exposes institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality
The Marshall Project
Sustains a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system
PRISM
Centers the humanity of people impacted by the criminal legal system, exposes and interrogates the violence of the mass incarceration and policing, and examines pathways for reform and abolition
The Innocence Project’s Media Viewing Guide (2020)
Lists recent films, documentaries, and miniseries about wrongful conviction
TIME Magazine Special Edition
Innocent: The Fight Against Wrongful Convictions (February 2017)
National Geographic Feature
Sentenced to Death but Innocent (February 2021)
WRONGFUL CONVICTION
ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS
After Innocence
Ensures that no exoneree is without post-release support
Centurion Ministries
The world’s first organization dedicated to the vindication of the wrongfully convicted
The Exoneration Project
One of the largest groups in the U.S. fighting for the wrongfully convicted
Innocence Network
71+ organizations worldwide working to exonerate the unjustly convicted
The National Registry of Exonerations
Maintains updated reports, statistics, and infographics by state of every known exoneration in the United States since 1989
Witness to Innocence
Leading organization run by exonerated death row survivors and their family members
criminal justice reform organizations
American Prison Writing Archive
Hosts the nation’s largest open digital archive and aims to replace misrepresentation of prisons and imprisoned people with first-person literature of witness
Compassion Prison Project
Encourages a trauma-informed approach to education and healing in prisons
Critical Resistance
Challenges the prison industrial complex
Drop LWOP Coalition
Strives to end life without parole or ‘death by incarceration’ in California
Dream Corps JUSTICE (formerly Cut 50)
Works to reduce the prison population while making communities safer
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Organizes communities to divest from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities for all
Essie Justice Group
Invests in the leadership of women of color with incarcerated loved ones, and runs healing and advocacy programing to end their political isolation
Equal Justice Initiative
Creates hope through challenging poverty and racial injustice and advocating for equal treatment in the criminal justice system
Equal Justice USA
Breaks cycles of trauma by strengthening alternatives to violence and promoting justice based on healing and equity
Empowerment Avenue
Uses art, writing, journalism, and film -pre-entry- to empower people in prison
Freedom Reads
Empowers people through literature to confront what prison does to the spirit; disseminates its Freedom Library and literary programs to support the efforts of people in prison to imagine new futures
Healing Justice
Prevents and alleviates the harm caused to all by wrongful convictions through advocacy, education, and direct support
Homeboy Industries
Supports formerly gang-involved and incarcerated men and women with a range of social enterprises and re-entry services
Institute to End Mass Incarceration
Aims to eradicate mass incarceration, root and branch, by supporting organized action, bold innovation, and research
Justice for Families
The only national juvenile justice reform organization founded and run by system-impacted families working to end mass criminalization
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Organizes communities most impacted by the criminal justice system
PEN America’s Prison & Justice Writing Program
Amplifes the writing of incarcerated writers and connects them to the broader literary community
The Prison Activist Resource Center
Offers resources for organizing against the prison industrial complex
Prison Policy Institute
Produces cutting-edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization
Rehabilitation Through the Arts
Helps develop critical life skills through the arts, modeling an approach to the justice system based on human dignity rather than punishment
The Sentencing Project
Promotes reforms in sentencing policy, addresses unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocates for alternatives to incarceration
Texas After Violence Project
Compiles training for and a database of mental health professionals specializing in supporting death row families throughout the U.S.
Vera Institute for Justice
Drives change to build systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities
Women’s Prison Association
Helps women with criminal justice histories see new possibilities for themselves and their families
Death Penalty Abolition Organizations
Amnesty International’s program to abolish the death penalty
The ACLU's campaign to abolish the death penalty
Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Political opposition to the death penalty
Catholics Mobilizing Network
Catholics Against the Capital Punishment promotes abolition and restorative justice
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty
Questions a system marked by inefficiency, inequity, and inaccuracy
Death Penalty Action
Provides high visibility resources, leadership, support, educational and direct action events and activities within the broader abolition movement
Death Penalty Information Center
Best source of data about the death penalty
Death Penalty Focus
Focuses on public education, grassroots organizing, political advocacy, media outreach, and coalition-building
The Eighth Amendment Project
Unites the national movement to change public discourse on capital punishment and guides funders to invest strategically on abolition efforts
Unitarian Universalists for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Seeks to give witness to the six UUA resolutions calling for an end to capital punishment
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Convenes a global alliance of more than 160 NGOs, bar associations, and authorities and lends an international dimension to the struggle for universal abolition
BUDDHIST + MINDFULNESS
RESOURCES FOR THE INCARCERATED
Boundless Freedom Project
Lights a path to freedom by sharing mindfulness, ethics & compassion practices with people impacted by incarceration.
Buddhist Assocation of the U.S. Prison Program
Avails Buddhist books, resource lists, a correspondence course and a newsletter to those inside
Buddhist Prison Ministry
Led by a Buddhist chaplain whose work with Jarvis and San Quentin’s Death Row Sangha inspired an “Introduction to Buddhism” coursebook specifically tailored to those inside; its materials are now accessible through prison tablets throughout the United States
Human Kindness Foundation
Provides free spiritual books and newsletter to those on the inside
Insight-Out
Organizes intiatives like the GRIP Training Institute that create the personal and systemic change to tranform violence and suffering into opportunities for learning and healing
Liberation Prison Project
Offers Buddhist books and guides to the incarcerated; a project of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)
Prison Mindfulness Institute (formerly Prison Dharma Network)
Promotes mindfulness practices of the world's great contemplative traditions and contemporary therapy in correctional institutions and envisioning transformative justice
Prison Yoga Project
Assists prisons, governmental agencies, private entities, and individuals in establishing trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness programs
Sravasti Abbey’s Prison Dharma Program
Provides free Buddhist books & media to individuals and prison chapel libraries
Wisdom Publications
Major Buddhist publishing house provides free books to readers on the inside
Lion’s Roar article
Buddhism Behind Bars: Organizations
(Jan 2018)
Lists some dedicated organizations offering Buddhist teachings and meditation practices to the incarcerated in prisons across the U.S.
BUDDHIST + MINDFULNESS
RESOURCES FOR YOUTH
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Shares spiritual practices and resources for social justice advocates
Operation Peacemaker Fellowship
Peacemaking study, practice, and mentoring groups in Richmond, CA
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education
Provides mindfulness program for teens & adults
Mind Body Awareness Project
Teaches mindfulness & emotional literacy to at-risk youth
Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning
Empowers educators with free, online, global K-12 tools to foster attention training, compassion and ethical discernment, systems thinking, resilience and trauma-informed practices
Tools for Peace
Inspiring youth to develop kindness and compassion through mindfulness & emotional literacy