Essie Justice Group
Essie Justice Group
Essie Justice Group is a nonprofit supporting women who have an incarcerated loved one and combatting the effects of mass incarceration. They utilize a Healing to Advocacy approach to forge relationships between women and build toward collective healing. Their collection includes women of color, formerly incarcerated women and gender-nonconforming people. Essie Justice Group offers financial […]
Free To Succeed
The mission at Free to Succeed is to enable incarcerated individuals at San Quentin to reach self-sufficiency through literacy. Volunteers work directly with incarcerated people to provide instruction on reading and writing in both one-on-one and group settings. Free to Succeed holds workshops and instruction every weekday from 6:00-8:00 pm inside the San Quentin corrections […]
Breaking Chains Foundation
Breaking Chains Foundation supplies underserved demographics with motivational resources to break their chains and unlock their potential. Breaking Chains aims to help those impacted by disabilities, recovery from substance abuse, as well as the justice involved community, and provide the skills to set goals and execute plans. Blake Shelley and the founding board of directors […]
Buried Alive Project
Buried Alive Project is a Dallas-based organization that fights to free people serving draconian sentences handed down under outdated federal drug law through transformative litigation, legislation and humanization. They provide legal representation for people buried alive under federal drug laws, advocate for impactful changes in the law and amplify the voices of people directly impacted […]
Project Avary
Project Avary is a nonprofit organization that provides essential services and community support for the children of incarcerated parents. Their mission is to help lessen the impact of growing up with an incarcerated parent, and to disrupt the cycle of generational incarceration. Project Avary brings children of incarcerated parents together within a community where younger […]
Expo Of Wisconsin Inc
EXPO (EX-incarcerated People Organizing) is an agency working to end mass incarceration, eliminate all forms of structural discrimination against formerly incarcerated people, and restore formerly incarcerated people to full participation in the life of our communities. Members of EXPO, typically formerly incarcerated people, provide support to each other and organize to create change in Wisconsin’s […]
Crossroads Reentry
Crossroads Reentry (CR) is a charitable nonprofit organization based in Charlotte, NC that provides life skills classes and local aid resource information to incarcerated people in correctional facilities to address the most critical needs upon and after their release from jail/prison. CR offers classroom instructions (also available online) on Reentry, Substance Abuse and Vocational Classes […]
Minutes Before Six
Minutes Before Six is a nonprofit organization that provides incarcerated individuals with the opportunity to creatively express themselves. They offer incarcerated people a way to maintain connection with the outside world through their personal works that are shared with the public. Currently, they host several hundred individual works from over 250 different – currently or […]
Second Chance Center, Inc.
Second Chance Center helps the formerly incarcerated successfully transition into society with proper education, support, and resources. They provide education, resources, and support to successfully re-enter the community. Their Never Going Back (NGB) Mentoring and Motivational program instill positive thought patterns that form genuine change. They offer both pre-release and post-release mentoring and case management. They mentor in […]