Resources: Regional Advocacy Organizations
PARC corresponds with and mails a directory of these resources to prisoners, their friends and family members. We are often 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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Florida Institutional Legal Services Project Advocacy for those in Florida prisons. Serves individuals who have suffered sexual abuse or harassment while incarcerated in Florida’s state prisons, jails, and detention centers. Has information specifically for parents and reentry information packets available for download that include a list of resources for each county in FL to assist individuals who are returning to their communities from institutions. Only serves Floridians.
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Regional Advocacy Organizations, Florida |
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Foreverfamily, Inc. Foreverfamily is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering children and families impacted by parental incarceration throughout the state of Georgia. Our programs and services focus on fostering positive parent-child relationships and meeting the unique needs of these individuals. We offer comprehensive case management, family strengthening initiatives, and provide a family visitation program to facilitate monthly visits between children and their incarcerated mothers. Serves individuals in Georgia only. |
Regional Advocacy Organizations, Georgia |
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Fortune Society The Fortune Society’s vision is to create a world where all who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated can become positive, contributing members of society. They do this through a holistic, one-stop model of service provision. Their continuum of care, informed and implemented by professionals with cultural backgrounds and life experiences similar to those of their participants, helps ensure each individual’s success. The Fortune Society serves approximately 18,000 individuals annually via New York City-area locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, including their service center in Long Island City, and both The Fortune Academy and Castle Gardens in West Harlem. Also publishes The Fortune News twice per year, which is free to those incarcerated in NY. Serves people in New York only.
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Regional Advocacy Organizations, New York |
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Foundation for the Mid South (Mississippi Reentry Guide) This 196-page Mississippi Reentry Guide is intended to provide essential information and resources about services to ex-offenders and those that support them. Their goal is to ensure that those leaving incarceration will have an easier and more successful transition back into their community. The directory includes national, state, and local resources organized by county, region and topic. Available in full online. Serves Mississippi only. |
Regional Advocacy Organizations, Mississippi |
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Free State Justice: Maryland's LGBTQ Advocates FreeState Justice provides legal services, referrals, and resources to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Maryland residents that qualify based on income, including protection of incarcerated persons' rights. These services may be provided by FreeState Justice staff or by a member of our pro bono attorney network. Services are for Maryland residents only.
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Regional Advocacy Organizations, Maryland |
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Friends Committee on Legislation of California Quaker-founded group that advocates and lobbies for CA state laws that are just, compassionate, and respectful of the inherent worth of every person. Staff can answer questions about legislative matters by letter. Serves Californians only. |
Regional Advocacy Organizations, California |
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Friends of Iowa Women Prisoners Friends of Iowa Women Prisoners mission is to bring together those concerned about women in the Iowa correctional system and provide education on how to best advocate on their behalf. They support a variety of programming to incarcerated women and also award scholarships that allow women to take college credit classes while incarcerated. Serves women in Iowa only. |
Regional Advocacy Organizations, Iowa |
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Hawai‘i Friends of Restorative Justice Hawai‘i Friends of Restorative Justice (HFRJ) develops, pilots, and evaluates strategies designed to increase healing for those harmed by injustice, increase criminal desistance for those who have caused harm, and to strengthen the criminal legal system. Its work includes reentry planning and resource coordination for incarcerated individuals; and education and training initiatives. HFRJ has designed and measured evidence-informed strategies including a variety of group processes, hiring incarcerated peer educator tutors, funding higher education after incarceration, and developing a structured reentry planning process that has been replicated nationally and internationally. HFRJ provides a practical reentry guide for individuals returning home to Hawai‘i. Some resources available in Japanese. Serves individuals in Hawai'i only. |
Regional Advocacy Organizations, Hawaii |
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Hearts on a Wire Hearts on a Wire is a grassroots organization working to address the needs of incarcerated transgender people in Pennsylvania prisons. They are a group of trans and gender variant people building a movement for gender self-determination, racial and economic justice, and an end to policing and imprisoning our communities. Offers a free newsletter to incarcerated and detained people. Write to be added to their mailing list. In your letter asking to be added, please tell us something about your relationship to the trans community. Serves transgender people in Pennsylvania only.
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Regional Advocacy Organizations, Pennsylvania |
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Hope Prison Ministry South Dakota Hope Prison Ministry assists men and women leaving prisons in South Dakota with clothing, housing, transportation, and food to support them in making a new start and re-establishing themselves in society. Offers fellowship and friendship beyond the walls. Serves South Dakota only. |
Regional Advocacy Organizations, South Dakota |