Resources:

• Sentencing Project
  www.sentencingproject.org
  
  
• Real Cost of Prisons Project
  realcostofprisons.org/
  
  
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
  www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs
  
  
• MA Department of Corrections
  www.state.ma.us/doc

Books to Prisoner programs:

• National list of books to prisoner programs
  www.booksthroughbars.org/pbp/
  
  
  
• Appalachian Prison Book Project
  email: appalachianpbp [at] gmail [dot] com
• Asheville, NC Prison Book Program
  www.main.nc.us/prisonbooks/
  
• Austin Inside Books Project
  www.insidebooksproject.org
• Bloomington Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project www.pagestoprisoners.org
• Boston Prison Book Program
  www.prisonbookprogram.org
  
• Chapel Hill Internationalist Prison Books Collective www.prisonbooks.info
• Chicago Books to Women in Prison
  www.chicagobwp.org
• Cincinnati Books 4 Prisoners
  www.freewebs.com/books4prisoners/
  
• Cleveland Books 2 Prisoners
  email: clevelandbooks2prisoners [at] hotmail [dot] com
• D.C. Books to Prisons Project
  www.quixote.org/ej/bookstoprisons
• Gainesville Books for Prisoners
  www.civicmediacenter.org/links/2003/11/01/13.29.05.htm
• Midwest Books to Prisoners
  www.freewebs.com/mwbtp/
• Minneapolis Women's Prison Book Project
  www.prisonactivist.org/wpbp
  
• New Orleans Books 2 Prisoners
  email: books2prisoners [at] riseup [dot] net
• New York City Books Through Bars
  www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/btb.html
• Philadelphia Books Through Bars
  www.booksthroughbars.org
• Pittsburg Book'em
  www.prisoners.com/bookemi.html
• Portland Books to Oregon Prisoners
  www.bookstooregonprisoners.org
• Seattle Books to Prisoners
  www.bookstoprisoners.net
• Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners Project www.books2prisoners.org
  

Prison Activist Groups:

• 360 Degrees
  www.360degrees.org
  
• All of Us or None
  www.allofusornone.org
  
• Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
  www.cjcj.org
  
• Critical Resistance
  www.criticalresistance.org
  
• Ella Baker Center
  www.ellabakercenter.org
  
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums
  www.famm.org
  
• Grassroots Leadership
  www.grassrootsleadership.org
  
• Jericho Movement
  www.thejerichomovement.com
  
• Human Rights Coalition
  hrcoalition.org
  
• New England AFSC Criminal Justice Program
  www.afsc.org/newengland/necrim.htm
  
• November Coalition
  www.november.org
  
• The Other Side of the Wall
  www.prisonwall.org
  
• Partnership for Safety and Justice
  www.safetyandjustice.org
  
• Prison Activist Resource Center
  www.prisonactivist.org
  
• Prison Moratorium Project
  www.nomoreprisons.org
  
• Real Cost of Prisons Project
  realcostofprisons.org/
  

Our Friends in the Area:

• American Friends Service Committee (Florence)
  www.westernmassafsc.org
  
• Arise for Social Justice (Springfield)
  www.angelfire.com/ma4/arise/
  
• Center for Popular Economics (Amherst)
  www.populareconomics.org
  
• Flywheel Arts Collective (Easthampton)
  www.flywheelarts.org
  
• Food for Thought Books (Amherst)
  www.foodforthoughtbooks.com
  
• homemadejam
  www.homemadejam.org
  
• Media Education Foundation (Northampton)
  www.mediaed.org
  
• National Priorities Project (Northampton)
  www.nationalpriorities.org
  
• Men's Resource Center (Amherst)
  www.mensresourcecenter.org
  
• North Hadley Congregational Church
  www.uccwebsites.net/northhadleyconghadleyma.html
  
• Peace Pagoda (Leverett)
  www.peacepagoda.org
  
• Positive Connections (Northampton)
  www.posiconn.com
  
• Pride & Joy (Northampton)
  www.nohoprideandjoy.com
  
• Project 2050 (Amherst)
  www.umass.edu/fac/nwt/Project-2050.htm
  
• Radical Student Union (Amherst)
  www.umass.edu/rso/rsu
  
• Veterans Education Project (Amherst)
  www.vetsed.org
• Western Massachusetts Indymedia
  wmass.indymedia.org