Resources: Women's Organizations and Resources
PARC corresponds with and mails a directory of these resources to prisoners, their friends and family members. We are often the first point of contact for people to connect with prisoners' rights organizations, community organizations, prison literature and arts projects, family and visiting resources, health care and legal resources, parole and pre-release resources, and the prison abolition movement.
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Aid to Inmate Mothers Provides services to Alabama’s incarcerated women with emphasis on enhancing personal growth and strengthening the bonds between inmate mothers and their children. Serves women in Alabama only. |
Women's Organizations and Resources |
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California Coalition for Women Prisoners CCWP is a grassroots abolitionist organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender and non-binary people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). CCWP visits incarcerated people in CA women's prisons, offers a writing correspondence programs, and produces a newsletter, “The Fire Inside,” free to incarcerated people. Primarily works with individuals in California but mails the newsletter to people around the country. L.A. Chapter – PO Box 291585, Los Angeles, CA 90029 |
Women's Organizations and Resources |
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CCWP Writing Warriors Writing Warriors Advocacy through Correspondence project establishes supportive relationships between volunteers in the community and people incarcerated at the women's prisons in California. The program is part of a collective undertaking which trains correspondents to promote advocacy for incarcerated people. Writing Warriors volunteers primarily communicate via GTL email but can also correspond thru U.S. mail via the CCWP Oakland office address. Only provides services to California prisons. |
Women's Organizations and Resources, Prison Writing / Arts Programs, California |
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Chicago Books to Women in Prison Serves: women’s state prisons in AZ, AL, AR, CA, CT, FL, IL, IN, KY, MS, TN, VT, WA; all women in Federal prisons, and trans women being housed in men’s prisons everywhere. |
Women's Organizations and Resources, Free Books Programs |
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Hour Children Mission is to support incarcerated mothers and their children. Provides resources and services outside and inside New York state prisons only. Also provides services in Spanish (también ofrece servicios en español). Only provides services to New York state prisons. |
Women's Organizations and Resources |
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National Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors The National Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors (NDCCS), formerly known as the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, addresses the unique needs of victims and survivors of gender-based violence who have been criminalized as a result of their experiences of being abused. NDCCS does not provide direct legal representation; it works with defense teams of survivors by providing case-specific technical assistance, resources, and support. NDCCS works nationwide. |
Women's Organizations and Resources |
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Tulane University Women's Prison Project Law student clinic focused on incarcerated individuals who are also survivors of abuse. Provides individual representation for pre-trial, post-conviction, parole, and clemency proceedings where abuse was a factor in the crime of conviction. Expect delays during the summer. Should also be able to provide services in Russian, Italian, and French. Serves survivors in Louisiana only, but will consult nationwide with defense attorneys. |
Women's Organizations and Resources |
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Women's Prison Association The Women's Prison Association (WPA) offers a range of services aimed at helping women in the New York City area. Their direct service network is organized in three broad areas; Residential and Family Services; Reentry Services; and neighborhood based services. Provides transitional planning and education in NY women's prisons, as well as HIV counseling and testing. Serves women in New York state only. |
Nationwide Organizations and Resources, Women's Organizations and Resources, HIV Resources |
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Women's Prison Book Project Provides women and transgender persons in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics. WPBP also has a free resource guide for women and trans prisoners and a newsletter which publishes prisoner articles. Partners with Black and Pink Minneapolis for correspondence (see LGBTQ resouce section). Ofrecen materiales de lectura en Español. Only serves women and trans prisoners. |
Women's Organizations and Resources |