Resources are divided into several topics. Use the links in the left column
or below to access a topic.
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Mission
The Shalom Community Center is a safe daytime resource center for those who
are experiencing homelessness and poverty. To this end:
- We serve as a bridge between our guests and over 18 social service agencies that send representatives to the center.
- We provide in-house programs that help people improve their prospects for self-sufficiency.
- We help people navigate the complex system of support they need. We do not duplicate, but rather help improve the efficiency of available service providers.
We also offer a variety of services such as breakfast and lunch daily,
laundry facilities, art and writing groups, a small library, clothing, and much
more. Check out our Programs and Services for more information.
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National and regional services in the criminal justice system utilizing a
social model approach for community building in collaboration with policy makers
and other leaders in the correctional community.
What is Therapeutic Justice
"…one nation...justice for all?quot; says the Pledge of
Allegiance of the United States of America. That promise and the
fact that things change over time, make therapeutic justice a
practical way to guarantee the rights of all citizens today.
Therapeutic Justice means that any involvement, and all contact
with the criminal justice system, would offer an opportunity for
education, healing, and restoration for the victim, the
offender, the community, and the criminal justice system staff.
Therefore, Therapeutic Justice means working together to
increase respect, usefulness, and safety in an area of human
experience that has all too often been characterized by pain,
neglect, and frustration. In 3,000 years of western history, we
have never gotten safe by being tough (James Gilligan, Harvard
Researcher).
Therapeutic Justice means communities reassume the
responsibility for satisfying justice and correctional systems
become known as human service centers.
The Center for
Therapeutic Justice is committed to solutions that come from
making policy decisions that offer changes that reduce misery
and crime and increase safety and cost savings.
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Help for Children of Inmates
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We can be
reached at 32 Oak Grove Road, Palmyra, VA 22963, (434) 589-3036, (434)
589-6520 fax, and e-mail:
fcn@fcnetwork.org. Our web site is www.fcnetwork.org.
Our
Executive Director: Jim Mustin.
FCN Mission Statement
The mission of
Family and Corrections Network (FCN) is to uphold families of prisoners
as a valued resource to themselves and their communities in order that
the criminal justice system, other institutions and society become
supportive of family empowerment, integrity, and self-determination.
FCN works
alongside families of prisoners, program providers, policy makers,
researchers, educators, correctional personnel and the public by:
1)
convening national meetings for mutually respectful learning,
interaction and dialogue;
2)
distributing information through FCN's publications, web site, and
speakers' bureau;
3)
designing and supplying technical materials, tools and services;
4)
advocating criminal justice policy reform that upholds the value of
families;
5)
encouraging networking among families of prisoners for mutual
support and cooperative action; and
6)
creating opportunities for linking with and learning from families
of prisoners.
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Mission Statement
CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants) is a membership
organization of families of prisoners, prisoners, former prisoners and other
concerned citizens. CURE's two goals are(1) to use prisons only for those who
have to be in them (2) and for those who have to be in them, to provide them all
the rehabilitative opportunities they need to turn their lives around.
Indiana-Cure
P.O. Box 199256
Indianapolis, IN 46219
Phone: 317/274-4525 weekdays
317-356-2606 nights & weekends
Email: csweetco@iupui.edu
http://www.curenational.org
Working in partnership with San Quentin State Prison, Insight Prison Project
(IPP) runs 15 unique classes through our Success Dorm. These classes are
dedicated to bridging the gap between punishment and parole, through effective
rehabilitation programming. Some of the programs we offer are: Violence
Prevention, Positive Parenting, Pre-parole, and Meditation. We have also started
Peer Education classes that are taught byprisoners.
Prison Project at Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Is deeply committed to working with prisoners, their families, and all other
persons associated with the prison system to address the systemic violence
within the prison-industrial complex.
Prison Project at Buddhist Peace Fellowship Web Site
Prison Moratorium Project
A nonprofit organization based in New York City that works locally and
nationally to stop prison expansion and mass incarceration, and re-invest
resources into communities most impacted by criminal justice policies through
educational programs, alternatives-to-incarceration initiatives, housing and
sustainable economic development.
No More Prisons
Stop the building of prisons in America
The Fight for Justice Organization
P.O. BOX 756
Sauk Rapids, MN 56379-0756
info@capitalpunishment-mn.org
This organization advocates the death penalty.
capitalpunishment-mn.org
Katargeo Solano
Louis Wright's (IPP Teacher, Pre-Parole class) post release program in Solano
County.
Book Not Bars
An organization dedicated to advocacy, grassroots organization and public
education to end the over-incarceration of youth.
Book Not Bars Web Site
Centerforce
Centerforce provides services for prisoners, ex-prisoners, and family members
of prisoners.
Centerforce Web Site
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Department of Justice Prison and Parole Information
Includes links and addresses to all federal prisons, state prisons and county
jails, federal and state inmate locators, prisoner transportation and transfer
information, etc.
Department of
Justice Prison and Parole Information Web Site
American Civil Liberties Union Prison Project
This organization focuses to create constitutional conditions of confinement
and strengthen prisoners' rights. It remains as the only national litigation
program on behalf of prisoners.
American Civil Liberties Union Prison Project Web Site
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"Juvies" by Chance Films
A moving and courageous documentary covering the plight of American youth
being tried as Adults. Some 200,000 children will be tried and sentenced as
Adults, doing time in State Penitentaries.
"Juvies" by Chance Films
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