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OTHER SITES DEALING WITH PRISONS AND JUSTICE ISSUES


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  • North Coast Xpress - Alternative News Views - The North Coast Xpress is a trimonthly magazine committed to educating the public, as well as prisoners, about political, social and economic issues related to justice, including but not limited to: preserving the democratic ideals of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, safeguarding the environment, explaining U.S. domestic and global economics, revealing how the criminal justice system works, and providing a voice for underrepresented minorities.
  • North Coast Xpress Prison Issues - North Coast Xpress Archives of Articles about Prisons.
  • North Coast Xpress Archives - North Coast Xpress Archives.

    Order a subscription for a prisoner. This is more than a worthwhile magazine.

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  • Human Rights Watch Prison Project: Prison Conditions and the Treatment of Prisoners - Information on prison conditions around the world, international human rights standards applicable to prisoners, and prison-related activities of the U.N. and other organizations.

  • Native American Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Spiritual Group - We of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Spiritual Group are attempting to promote awareness of our struggles in an attempt to gain understanding from all interested people. We face many obstacles in our efforts to achieve our goals of proper education, religious equality, and relief from racism (from prison administrators and staff).

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  • Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) - Coordinated and maintained by long-time prison activists and legal workers, PARC serves as an information clearinghouse on political prisoners/POW's, control units, women in prison, the death penalty, activist and legal work and publications in the US and Canada, prison abolition and the fight against prison slavery, up-to-date statistics, reports on conditions and news items.
  • Prison Connections: Links - A huge resource of links to prison issue sites, traditional and alternative.
  • About.com Crime and Punishment Links - Links to prison issue sites (mostly traditional) and statistics.
  • Human Rights - at The Mining Co. - Links to human rights sites (mostly traditional).
  • Prison Issues Desk - A source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system. Educational and activist resources, news, alerts and analysis. Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) site.
  • Chain Reaction - Texas anarchist prisoners magazine.
  • Claustrophobia Collective - Baltimore, Maryland group working on prison issues.
  • Justice Action Australia - A community-based organisation comprising criminal justice and prison reform activists. They are prisoners and ex-prisoners, lawyers, academics, victims of crime, and community members.
  • National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons - American Friends Service Committee site.
  • For International Solidarity and Revolutionary Resistance - Links to European and American political sites dealing with prisons, political prisoners, censorship, etc.
  • For International Solidarity and Revolutionairy Resistance: Prison Links - Many links to European and American political sites dealing with human rights, prisons and political prisoners/prisoners of war.
  • IGC (Internet's Progressive Gateway): PeaceNet - The mission of IGC is to advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online technologies.
  • Protest.net - A calendar of protest, meetings and conferences.
  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) Death Penalty Defense - NACDL's position, critical information, internet resources and links.
  • Death Penalty Information Center - National and international information on the death penalty (includes state by state information). Check out "What's New" for the latest updates.
  • National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - A coalition of organizations and individuals committed to the abolition of capital punishment. Provides information, advocates for public policy and mobilizes and supports people and institutions that share its unconditional rejection of the state's use of homocide as an instrument of social policy. Has activist info, legal assistance contacts and links to other related web sites.
  • Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP) - CUADP works to end the death penalty in the United States through aggressive campaigns of public education and the promotion of tactical grassroots activism.
  • The Lamp of Hope Project - Founded by Texas death row prisoners this organization's goals include educating the public about the death penalty and alternatives. Site includes execution lists, news, issues and prisoner writings and poetry.
  • Rights For All: Torture and abuse of prisoners - Amnesty International USA report. Describes violations of internationally guaranteed human rights and physical and sexual violence as endemic in many US prisons and jails.
  • Death Penalty: Mumia Abu-Jamal - Amnesty International report that concludes that the proceedings used to convict and sentence Mumia Abu-Jamal to death were in violation of minimum international standards that govern fair trial procedures and the use of the death penalty.
  • Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody - Amnesty International USA report describes violations of the internationally guaranteed human rights of women incarcerated in the United States.
  • Anarchist Black Cross - The American Gulag - The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) is an international network of autonomous groups of anarchists who work to ensure that imprisoned activists aren't forgotten.
  • Introduction to Anarchist Black Cross - Introduction to Anarchist Black Cross and their Guide for Supporting Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War.
  • Forever in Struggle - ABCF (Anarchist Black Cross Federation) site on political prisoners and prisoners of war in the United States and beyond.
  • Prisoner Support - ABC links to particular cases of "class struggle prisoners" around the world.
  • Human Rights in the Americas - Links to sites which examine the state of human rights in the Western Hemisphere.
  • Irish Political Prisoners Information Page - Republican/Nationalist page with information about prisoners held by the British government. Includes campaigns on behalf of many prisoners.
  • Violations of Human Rights - Cases of today - Native American site covering many diverse issues. This page focuses on current cases violating the UN charter of human rights.
  • Native Links - Native American resource links.
  • ColorQ's Human Rights Page - Features stories and links on worldwide human rights violations, particularly issues that receive little attention from the Western media.
  • Crime Magazine - Contains a separate section on prisons and prison issues.
  • American Prisons.co.uk - UK based site covering all aspects of American prisons. It draws the public�s attention to some of the misgivings and misconceptions of the American judicial system, and the mistreatment of many that are incarcerated. Deals with death row; the death penalty; prison violence; inmate stories, writings, art and poetry; and urgent alert(s).


    NEWS ARTICLES


  • Prisons for Profit - Excellent series of articles on prisons by ABC News.
  • High Cost of Hard Time - Special series on prisons by The Virginian-Pilot.
  • Yahoo! Full Coverage: Prison Issues - Yahoo news coverage on prisons in the U.S.
  • Yahoo! Full Coverage: Criminal Justice - Yahoo news coverage on the criminal justice system in the U.S.



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