THE DIRECTORY.
Justice Impact Directory
Organizations doing real work in criminal justice — reentry, legal help, wrongful conviction, advocacy, research and faith — described in our own words and checked against their own sites.
REENTRY.
Reentry & employment
Housing, jobs, training and support for people coming home from incarceration.
Reentry
Center for Employment Opportunities
Paid transitional work, with daily pay, for people just out of prison, then coaching into a full-time job.
New York, NY · Multi-state
Reentry
Defy Ventures
Entrepreneurship and employment training for people in prison and after release, through regional chapters.
Los Angeles, CA · Multi-state
Reentry
Homeboy Industries
Gang rehabilitation and reentry in Los Angeles, with paid job training inside Homeboy's own bakery, café and other businesses.
Los Angeles, CA · Local
Reentry
Second Chance Services
Free mentorship, therapy referrals, financial coaching, job help and peer groups, from investigation through reentry.
CA · National
Reentry
The Fortune Society
New York City's one-stop reentry organization: housing, jobs, treatment, education and family services under one roof.
Long Island City, NY · Local
LEGAL HELP.
Legal help & defense
Legal services, defense resources, and the people who provide them.
Legal help
Equal Justice Initiative
A nonprofit law office representing people on death row, wrongly convicted or excessively sentenced, plus the Legacy Museum.
Montgomery, AL · National
Legal help
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
The national membership association for criminal defense lawyers: training, The Champion magazine, amicus briefs and reform projects.
Washington, DC · National
Legal help
Root & Rebound
Free legal help for people leaving prison or living with a record: a reentry hotline, mobile clinics and mailed guides.
Oakland, CA · Multi-state
WRONGFUL CONVICTION.
Wrongful conviction
Organizations that investigate, litigate and overturn wrongful convictions.
Wrongful conviction
Innocence Project
Litigates to free wrongly convicted people, mostly through DNA evidence, and works to change the practices that convict them.
New York, NY · National
PEER SUPPORT.
Peer support & community
Support groups and communities for justice-impacted people and their families.
Peer support
White Collar Support Group
A free weekly Zoom support meeting for people facing, serving or returning from white-collar and nonviolent federal cases.
CT · National
ADVOCACY.
Advocacy & policy
Organizations working to change sentencing, prison conditions and the law itself.
Advocacy
FAMM
Families Against Mandatory Minimums: organizing families to end mandatory sentences and win second chances.
Washington, DC · National
Advocacy
Justice Restoration Foundation
Nonpartisan advocacy aimed at how the federal criminal process works, not at individual verdicts.
FL · National
Advocacy
JustLeadershipUSA
Trains formerly incarcerated people to lead advocacy and policy campaigns, through the year-long Leading with Conviction program.
New York, NY · National
Advocacy
The Sentencing Project
Research and campaigns on sentencing, youth justice, voting rights and racial disparity, since 1986.
Washington, DC · National
Advocacy
Unify.US
A Washington policy-advocacy nonprofit whose Freedom & Justice work includes prison and public-safety reform.
Washington, DC · National
RESEARCH.
Research & journalism
Data, reporting and analysis on how the system actually works.
Research
Prison Policy Initiative
The numbers on mass incarceration, including the annual Whole Pie report, and the campaign to end prison gerrymandering.
Northampton, MA · National
Research
The Marshall Project
Nonprofit, nonpartisan journalism on prisons, jails, courts and policing, including a print edition for people inside.
New York, NY · National
Research
Vera Institute of Justice
Research and demonstration projects, run with governments, to shrink jails and prisons. Started with the 1961 Manhattan Bail Project.
Brooklyn, NY · National
FAITH-BASED.
Faith-based
Ministries and faith communities serving people inside and after prison.
Faith-based
Prison Fellowship
The Christian ministry behind the Prison Fellowship Academy, Angel Tree and Second Chance Month.
Lansdowne, VA · National
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