Resources: Women's Organizations and Resources
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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Aid to Inmate Mothers Provides services to Alabama’s incarcerated women with emphasis on enhancing personal growth and strengthening the bonds between inmate mothers and their children. Serves women in Alabama only. |
Women's Organizations and Resources |
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California Coalition for Women Prisoners CCWP is a grassroots abolitionist organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender and non-binary people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). CCWP visits incarcerated people in CA women's prisons, offers a writing correspondence programs, and produces a newsletter, “The Fire Inside,” free to incarcerated people. Primarily works with individuals in California but mails the newsletter to people around the country. L.A. Chapter – PO Box 291585, Los Angeles, CA 90029 |
Women's Organizations and Resources |
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CCWP Writing Warriors Writing Warriors Advocacy through Correspondence project establishes supportive relationships between volunteers in the community and people incarcerated at the women's prisons in California. The program is part of a collective undertaking which trains correspondents to promote advocacy for incarcerated people. Writing Warriors volunteers primarily communicate via email but can also correspond thru U.S. mail via the CCWP Oakland office address. Only provides services to California prisons. |
Women's Organizations and Resources, Prison Writing / Arts Programs, California |
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Chicago Books to Women in Prison Serves: women’s state prisons in AZ, AL, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, HI, IL, IN, KY, MN, MS, TN, TX, VT, WA; all women in Federal prisons, and trans women being housed in men’s prisons everywhere. Provides books in Spanish and can often get books in other languages, as well. |
Women's Organizations and Resources, Free Books Programs |
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Hour Children Mission is to support incarcerated mothers and their children. Provides resources and services outside and inside New York state prisons only. Also provides services in Spanish (también ofrece servicios en español). Only provides services to New York state prisons. |
Women's Organizations and Resources |
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National Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors The National Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors (NDCCS), formerly known as the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, addresses the unique needs of victims and survivors of gender-based violence who have been criminalized as a result of their experiences of being abused. NDCCS does not provide direct legal representation; it works with defense teams of survivors by providing case-specific technical assistance, resources, and support. Accepts collects calls from criminalized survivors at 267-876-7027, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm ET. NDCCS works nationwide. |
Women's Organizations and Resources |
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Women's Prison Association The Women's Prison Association (WPA) offers a range of services aimed at helping women in the New York City area. Their direct service network is organized in three broad areas; Residential and Family Services; Reentry Services; and community-based services. Provides transitional planning and education in NY women's prisons, as well as HIV counseling and testing. Serves women in New York state only. |
Nationwide Organizations and Resources, Women's Organizations and Resources, HIV Resources |
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Women's Prison Project of Tulane Law Clinic Law student clinic providing legal representation to survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and trafficking - with a particular focus on survivors serving life or long sentences, and those charged or imprisoned after killing an abuser in self-defense of for having committed crimes under an abuser's coercion or duress. Write for application. Expect delays during the summer. Serves survivors in Louisiana only, but will consult nationwide with defense attorneys. |
Women's Organizations and Resources |