Emptying Cages: Resource List

Emptying Cages: From Animal Abolition to Prison Abolition
Resource List

Jenna McDavid, Living Opposed to Violence and Exploitation [L.O.V.E]
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Adapted from Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law, PM Press 2009.  www.resistancebehindbars.org

Health
AIDS Educational Project – National Prison Project of the ACLU
733 East 15th St NW, Suite 620
Washington, DC  20005
202-393-4930
www.aclu.org/prison/index.html
Serves as a national resource center to provide educational materials, legal information and assistance to persons seeking information about AIDS in prison.  Provides free packets of information to prisoners, including an educational pamphlet, AIDS and Prisons: The Facts for Inmates and Officers (in English, possibly available in Spanish, single copies free to prisoners) and a comprehensive AIDS and Prison Bibliography for $10.

AIDS in Prison Project – The Osborne Association
809 Westchester Ave.
Bronx, NY  10455
718-707-2600
800-344-3314
www.osborneny.org/aids_in_prison_project.htm
Brochures for HIV+ people.  Information hotline in English and Spanish.  Accepts collect calls at: 718-378-7022

The Birth Attendants
PO Box 12258
Olympia, WA  98508
info@birthattendants.org
www.birthattendants.org
Feminist, pro-choice, reproductive justice organization that believes that a positive birth experience is a human right for all women.  Provides pregnancy, labor, and post-partum doula services and popular education style childbirth education classes to women incarcerated in the Washington Correction Center for Women (WCCW).

CorrectHELP
1223 Wilshire Blvd. #905
Santa Monica, CA  90403
www.correcthelp.org
Works to improve treatment of prisoners living with HIV / AIDS.

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc.
2212 6th St.
Berkeley, CA  94710
510-644-2555
www.dredf.org

Hepatitis C Awareness Project
PO Box 41803
Eugene, OR  97404
Newsletter, info packet.  Offers seminars, workshops and support groups both in and out of prison.

Hepatitis C Support Project
PO Box 427037
San Francisco, CA  94142-7037
Provides a free information booklet, as well as a free newsletter, HCV Advocate.

Jeff Dicks Medical Coalition
PO Box 343
Beechgrove, TN  37018
Advocacy for prisoners who need, and are not receiving, appropriate medical care.

National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project (NATAP)
580 Broadway #1010
New York, NY 10012
Will mail Hepatitis C and Hepatitis C Co-Infection Handbook.

National Black Women’s Health Project
1237 Abernathy Blvd. SW
Atlanta, GA  30310
Health information (medical, social, political) available for African-American women.  Write for newsletter.

POZ Magazine
PO Box 417
Mount Morris, IL  61054
Magazine about living with HIV.  Free subscription for people with HIV who can’t afford to pay for a subscription.  All requests for free subscriptions must be signed and dated to meet postal regulations.

Prisoners with AIDS Rights Advocacy Group
PO Box 2161
Jonesboro, GA  30237
Offers support, educational materials, referrals, and political lobbying for prisoners with AIDS/HIV.

For Incarcerated Mothers
Aid to Children of Imprisoned Mothers
524 Larkin St. SW
Atlanta, GA  30313
Provides information to all incarcerated mothers.  Direct social services to mothers in Atlanta area.

Center for Children with Incarcerated Parents
65 South Grand Ave.
Pasadena, CA  91105
Free educational materials for incarcerated parents and their children.

Children’s Center
PO Box 803
Bedford Hills, NY  10507
Publishes The Foster Care Handbook for Incarcerated Parents: A Manual of Your Legal Rights and Responsibilities and Parenting from Inside/Out: The Voices of Mothers in Prison, both written by women prisoners.  Each costs $2.

Family and Corrections Network
32 Oak Grove
Palmyra, VA  22963
www.fcnetwork.org
Provides a resource list for incarcerated parents, their children, and their children’s caregivers.

Mothers Reclaiming Our Children
4167 Normandies Ave.
Los Angeles, CA  90037
Working to create a nationwide program to provide support for families, attend court hearings and trials, and work with attorneys.  Provides advocacy work for prisoners and their families.

National Indian Child Welfare Association
5100 SW Macadam Ave. #300
Portland, OR  97230
Can assist Native prisoners in navigating custody issues.

National Resource Center for Family Support Programs: Family Resource Coalition
200 S. Michigan Ave. #1520
Chicago, IL  60604
Provides information about family programs.

Parent Resource Association
213 Fernbrook Ave.
Wyncotte, PA  19095
(215) 576-7961
Referrals and information to incarcerated parents.  Family counseling to parolees.

Free Books and Reading Material
Books Through Bars NYC
c/o Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
New York, NY  10002
www.bluestockings.com
Specializes in political and history books.

Books Through Bars
4722 Baltimore Ave.
Philadelphia, PA  19143
Sends books to people imprisoned in all states except Oregon and Michigan.

Chicago Books to Women in Prison
c/o Beyondmedia Education
7013 N. Glenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL  60622
www.chicagobwp.org
Sends books only to women incarcerated in the states of Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, and Ohio.

Coalition for Prisoners’ Rights Newsletter
PO Box 1911
Santa Fe, NM  87504
Free newsletter on U.S. prison system.  Publishes short statements by prisoners about prison problems and solutions.

Women’s Prison Book Project
c/o Arise Bookstore
2441 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN  55045
Ships to all states except OR, MI, CO, and WV.  Free books to women prisoners only.  No county jail requests.  Does not ship hardback books.  Free resource guide for women and transgender prisoners.  Encourages women and transgender prisoners to write articles for their newsletter.

For LGBT Prisoners
Gay and Lesbian Prisoner Project
PO Box 1481
Boston, MA  02117
Pen pals and info for queer prisoners.

Sinister Wisdom, Inc.
PO Box 3252
Berkeley, CA  94703
Publishes work (prose, poetry, essays, graphics, and book reviews) by lesbians only.  Free to women in prison.

Sylvia Rivera Law Project
322 8th Ave. 3rd Floor
New York, NY  10001
212-337-8550
www.srlp.org
Free legal services to transgender and gender non-conforming low-income people and people of color in New York City and surrounding areas.

Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project
1095 Market St. Suite 308
San Francisco, CA  94103
Works on alternative sentencing, advocacy for transgender prisoners to access hormones, find attorneys and prepare cases for attorneys.  Prisoners can send confidential legal male to the above address c/o Alexander Lee, Attorney at Law.

For Survivors of Violence
Free Battered Women
1540 Market St. Suite 490
San Francisco, CA  94102
(415) 255-7036 x320
Fax: (415) 552-3150
info@freebatteredwomen.org
www.freebatteredwomen.org
Advocates for the release of domestic violence survivors from state prison.  Only works with women incarcerated in California.

National Clearinghouse in Defense of Battered Women
125 South 9th St. Suite 302
Philadelphia, PA  19107
Information, referrals and legal assistance for battered women.  Works a lot with prisoners, free newsletter.

For Immigrants in Detention or Prison
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
1663 Mission Street, Suite 602
San Francisco, CA  94103
www.ilrc.org
Legal help and advocacy for immigrants.  Works with immigrant detainees and prisoners.

Prisoner Support
ACLU National Prison Project
125 Broad St. 18th Floor
New York, NY  10004
Handles major class-action lawsuits involving conditions in federal or state prisons.

All of Us or None
c/o Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
1540 Market St. Suite 490
San Francisco, CA  94102
415-255-7036
www.allofusornone.org
A national organization initiative of prisoners, former prisoners, and felons, to combat the many forms of discrimination they face as the result of felony convictions.  Has chapters in several California cities as well as Oklahoma.

American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Project
89 Market St. 6th Floor
Newark, NJ  07102
(973) 643-3192
Fax: (973) 643-8924
bkerness@afsc.org
Monitors human rights violations and abuse of prisoners in U.S. federal and state prisons.  Prisoners should send personal testimony to Bonnie Kerness at the above address.

Critical Resistance
1904 Franklin St.  Suite 504
Oakland, CA  94612
www.criticalresistance.org
Organization dedicated to fighting the expansion of the prison system.  Chapters work on diverse projects such as “harm free zones” that don’t rely on policing; prisoner newspaper and radio projects; prisoner support; and local organizing against prisons and policing and for true community safety.  Write for a complete list of programs and to get involved in the movement.

D.R.I.V.E. Movement
www.drivemovement.org
Founded by death row prisoners, the DRIVE movement seeks to unite the death row community to push forward and initiate a change in conditions.

Innocence Project
100 Fifth Ave. 3rd Floor
New York, NY  10011
Handles cases where post-conviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive evidence of innocence.

Jericho Movement
PO Box 1272
New York, NY  10113
718-949-5153
Political prisoner support group working toward prison abolition.

National Network for Women in Prison
714 West California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA  91105
Resources and advocacy work.  Produces a free newsletter written by former prisoners.

Prison Activist Resource Center
PO Box 339
Berkeley, CA  94701
www.prisonactivist.org
Does advocacy and prison support work.  Free resources packet for prisoners.

Project for Older Prisoners (POPS)
c/o Jonathan Turley
National Law Center
2000 H St. NW
Washington, DC  20002
Information for older prisoners.

Southern Center for Human Rights
83 Poplar St. NW
Atlanta, GA  30303-2122
www.schr.org
Represents prisoners and jail inmates in class action lawsuits against conditions of confinement, degrading or discriminatory treatment, denial of medical and mental health care, and other constitutional violations.

Stop Prisoner Rape
3325 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 340
Los Angeles, CA  90010
(213) 384-1400
www.spr.org
Public education about rape in prison and support for rape survivors.

More prisoner resource lists can be found at:
•    Prison Activist Resource Center: www.prisonactivist.org
•    Critical Resistance: www.criticalresistance.org
•    Prison Book Program National Prisoner Resource List: www.prisonbookprogram.org/nprl.html
•    Family and Corrections Network: www.fcnetwork.org