Help R.I.H.D., Inc. to correct all unfair jury trials in Virginia.

The Mobile Justice Tour (MJT) in Virginia is embarking on their 3rd fifteen-city tour calling for the overhaul of Virginia's Justice System, restoring civil and voting rights and for state-wide fair-hiring application policies for persons with a criminal record.

R. Williford sent in some of his earlier writings and wanted us to share them with you. Here's one from 2010 -- sad that it still applies today.

A response to the "challenge" in the latest Ar CURE newsletter...from James R.

Check out this post by Raphael Sperry, president of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, on the violence inherent in the design of Thomson Correctional Center See it here: http://designandviolence.moma.org/thomson-correctional-center-illinois-department-of-corrections/ Thomson’s planned conversion into a Federal supermaximum security prison raises the prospect of extended solitary confinement for hundreds of men, as at the infamous ADX Florence. There, the response […]

On July 9, 2014, Paul Wright and Alex Friedmann from the Human Rights Defense Center/Prison Legal News provided testimony to the FCC regarding the lowering of intrastate (in -state) prison phone rates.  Please click the attached video to view the entire broadcast.

Families with members in the prison system are already struggling. Having the phone company join into a partnership with prisons to take advantage of them is wrong. I was in prison twice between 2003 and 2008. I limited phone calls home to once a week and only one 20 minute call because the calls cost […]