Prisoner Support Directory

NEW EDITION!!!    Updated August 2010!!

Please print this directory and use it to assist prisoners in your community.

If you are an organization that will use this directory to support prisoners who contact you, please send us a 61cent stamp with your request and we will send you an original copy. Find our address on the contact PARC page.

We correspond with and mail resource packets to prisoners, their friends and family members. We are the first point of contact for people to connect with prisoners' rights organizations, community organizations, prison literature and arts projects, family and visiting resources, health care and legal resources, parole and pre-release resources, and the prison abolition movement.


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Recent Alerts

  • AP: Vicious, feared attack leaves Pa. inmate comatose

    By Writer Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press
    Sun Aug 29, 1:21 pm ET

    SCRANTON, Pa. – If his diary and witness accounts are to be believed, Nicholas Pinto endured months of physical, sexual and mental abuse in prison. Guards roughed him up, made him stand naked in a cold cell for hours at a time, and taunted him relentlessly. A fellow inmate raped him night after night, beat him when he resisted, and stole his possessions.

    And no one, he claimed, did a thing about it.

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  • Guardian: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement

    Robert King
    The Guardian, Saturday 28 August 2010

    'I talk about my years in solitary as if it was the past, but the truth is it never leaves you. In some ways I am still there'

    I first entered Louisiana State Penitentiary in the early 60s, at the age of 18. I was in and out of that place for the rest of the decade. Back then, if you were young, black and had a record, police in New Orleans would come looking for you when they had a backlog of unsolved cases: it was called cleaning the books.

  • Nola.com: New Orleans cops say they got orders authorizing them to shoot looters

    Published: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 1:00 AM
    Updated: Friday, August 27, 2010, 2:37 PM

    In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters, according to present and former members of the New Orleans Police Department.

    It's not clear how broadly the order was communicated. Some officers who heard it say they refused to carry it out. Others say they understood it as a fundamental change in the standards on deadly force, which allow police to fire only to protect themselves or others from what appears to be an imminent physical threat.

    The accounts of orders to "shoot looters," "take back the city" or "do what you have to do" are fragmentary.

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