Resources

• Getting Help Locally
• Therapeutic Justice
• Grassroots Support and Advocacy Organizations
• Prison
• Press Media

Getting Help Locally

Shalom Center

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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Therapeutic Justice

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…" 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.

Phone: 757-561-8907 Email: centerforjustice@aol.com Address: P.O. Box 641, Williamsburg, VA 23187

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Help for Children of Inmates

Family and Corrections Network

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: convening national meetings for mutually respectful learning, interaction and dialogue; distributing information through FCN's publications, web site, and speakers' bureau; designing and supplying technical materials, tools and services; advocating criminal justice policy reform that upholds the value of families; encouraging networking among families of prisoners for mutual support and cooperative action; and creating opportunities for linking with and learning from families of prisoners.

 

Grassroots Support and Advocacy Organizations

INDIANA-CURE

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

Insight Prison Project.

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.

» Prison Moratorium Project Web Site

No More Prisons

Stop the building of prisons in America

» No More Prisons Web Site

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.

» Katargeo Solano Web Site

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