Human Rights: Prisoners

• Advocates for Prisoners
  Patients in prison have no choice. And no consumer advocate. The Wrongful Death Institute serves as the advocate for those that are incarcerated within U.S. jails and prisons that are receiving no medical care or inadequate medical care by the correctional medical companies contracted by the States.
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  California Prison Focus
  California Prison Focus is dedicated to identifying, monitoring, challenging and ending the human rights abuses that take place in California prisons and particularly in Security Housing Units (SHUs).
• Death Penalty Information Center
  The question with which we must deal is not whether a substantial proportion of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that capital punishment is barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in light of all information presently available. - Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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  Justice Denied
  We have two goals. The most pressing goal is to fund the search for truth. Our other goal is to educate the public about the current state of the criminal justice system with the aim of reforming it so that it is more accurate in its investigations so that grievous wrongful convictions are less likely.
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  Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
  Founded in 1976, Murder Victims? Families for Reconciliation is a national organization of family members of both homicide and state killings who oppose the death penalty in all cases. Our mission is to abolish the death penalty.
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  National Coalition Against the Death Penalty
  NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy, and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share our unconditional rejection of capital punishment.
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  Prison Activists Resource Center
  PARC exposes the myths that sustain widespread injustices in prisons and in the communities most affected by mass imprisonment, and inspires and motivates people to take positive action against the mass-incarceration system and for prisoners' human and civil rights.
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  Prison Legal News
  Prison Legal News is an independent 48-page monthly publication that reports, reviews and analyzes court rulings and news related to prisoner rights and prison issues. PLN has a national (U.S.) focus on both state and federal prison issues, with international coverage as well.
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  Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged
  A nonprofit organization assisting, uplifting, & empowering those who are at a disadvantage and disenfranchised (Inmates - Ex-Offenders - At Risk Youth - Their Families and Communities in Despair with rehabilitation and "Earned" Second Chance).
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  Western Prison Project
  The Western Prison Project exists to create progressive reform of the prison and criminal justice systems, leading to mass decarceration, community-based alternatives to incarceration, and social and economic justice for communities disproportionately targeted by the criminal justice system.