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We support campaigns that work to end mass incarceration and transform the criminal justice system. Our campaigns range from grassroots campaigns run from church basements to national campaigns run from policy shops. Find a campaign near you or click here to propose one.

South Carolina Prison Justice Network
South Carolina Prison Justice Network
South Carolina Prison Justice Network fights to advance the human rights of those inside our state’s jails and prisons. We call for policy reform that ends mass incarceration and that emphasizes rehabilitation of our neighbors. It is time to reform South Carolina’...
South Carolina

#CagingCOVID: Stopping the Spread Behind Bars
While the world is trying to flatten the curve of a pandemic without end in sight, U.S. prisons and detention centers continue to be COVID-19 hotspots, warehousing millions and failing to make the substantial populations reductions needed to create conditions of social ...
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Prison Reform Movement
Prison Reform Movement ™ is focused on improving prison and jail conditions for prisoners through out the United States. We advocate on behalf of prisoners.
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Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (Gainesville)
A liaison for prisoners to organize each other and build solid bridges between prisoners on the inside and fellow workers on the outside.
Florida

Campaign for Prison Phone Justice
The "Campaign for Prison Phone Justice" is challenging prison phone kickbacks and the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry.
District of Columbia

Challenging Incarceration

The Challenging Incarceration Mission



The system of incarceration in New York continues to destroy people, families, and
communities. We are a growing statewide, multi-campaign, multi-issue collective that aims to:

1) End M...
New York

Human Rights Defense Center
The Human Rights Defense Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of the human rights of people held in U.S. detention facilities. This includes people in state and federal prisons, local jails, immigration detention centers, civil commitme...
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#StopTheHeat – End Abusive Conditions in Prisons
Nation Inside is hearing reports from prisoners and families across the country about abusive heat conditions. It’s an issue of life and death as summer rolls in and climate disruption brings triple digit temperatures. Hundreds of prisons, jails, and detention centers...
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Decarcerate Illinois
We call on Illinois lawmakers to take a realistic view of what community safety means and how to achieve it. Our current systems have been failing individuals, families, and communities for generations. The needs of survivors are not being met and the current system dis...
Illinois

Arkansas Cure
Arkansas CURE works to promote rehabilitation for the benefit of the community as a whole, and of the incarcerated individual through meaningful criminal justice reform by advocating for meaningful change through the legislative process.
Arkansas

Justice for Families
J4F is national network of family leaders, impacted by the justice system, working to end mass criminalization, particularly of youth and in communities of color. We are working to advance systemic policy and practice change while also building a base of those directly...
California

Washington Prison Phone Justice
The Washington Prison Phone Justice Campaign demands an end to the unjust costs of telephone calls from Washington prisons, jails and other detention facilities.
Washington

Jobs Not Jails
Together, we are building the infrastructure to engage thousands of people in a campaign to stop $2 billion of prison construction, and re-direct those funds into creating good jobs for people in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods.
Massachusetts

Families United to Decarcerate Michigan
Families United to Decarcerate Michigan is a group of citizens and organizations bringing awareness to the issues of over-incarceration in our state. We want to engage the citizens of Michigan to ask for improvements and reinvention of the criminal justice and correctio...
Michigan

Maryland Cure
Maryland CURE is a state chapter of International CURE, an organization dedicated to reducing crime through reform of the criminal justice system since 1972. We believe prisons should only be used for those who absolutely must be incarcerated. Prisons should not be used...
Maryland

Illinois Campaign for Prison Phone Justice
To expose phone companies charging exorbitant rates and bring justice to families who have loved ones incarcerated by making affordable the cost of phone calls from jails and prisons in Illinois.
Illinois

Stop Prison Profiteering
Join us in fighting the companies and governments that are financially exploiting prisoners and pushing the costs of mass incarceration on to the families of prisoners. This includes money transfer services, commissary companies, pay to stay fees, for-profit probation a...
Florida

Prison Ecology Project
The mission of the Prison Ecology Project is to map the intersections of mass incarceration and environmental degradation, and create action plans to address the multitude of problems found there.
Florida

Texas Inmate Families Association
The mission of the Texas Inmate Families Association is to break the cycle of incarceration in Texas by strengthening families through organizing, support, education, and advocacy.
Texas

Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged
Fighting to reverse the trend of mass incarceration and correcting sentencing bias and injustices that remain uncorrected in Virginia." -- Lillie Branch-Kennedy, Founder/Executive Director Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged & Disenfranchised (RIHD)
Virginia