Useful links

DEATH PENALTY LINKS

• American Bar Association - Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
  This project of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the ABA provides information regarding the American Bar Association's call for a moratorium on executions due to inadequate legal representation, racial bias, the execution of the mentally ill and children, and other deficiencies in the way the death penalty is now being imposed, and developments in efforts to bring about a moratorium.
• American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project
  The Project administers an on-line confidential practice area for capital defense attorneys.  This site contains sample pleadings, including all successful "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel" cases, jurisdictional statements from a number of death penalty states, a comprehensive library, and a training and events calendar.
• Amnesty International
  Includes reports, facts and statistics on capital punishment throughout the world.
• California Appellate Project
  Excellent resource for attorneys representing death row inmates on direct appeal and in state habeas corpus proceedings.  In order to access the site, you must register and verify that you are currently representing death row inmates.
• Canadian Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
  Information-packed site about death row inmates, clemency campaigns, and innocence claims.
• Capital Defense Weekly
  This site contains the current and archived issues of Capital Defense Weekly, a comprehensive round-up of the week's death penalty law developments and execution information, as well as other news about the death penalty.  The site also has several useful links and resources, and an option to subscribe for free to the weekly so that it is emailed to you each week.
• Clark County Indiana Prosecutor
  This pro-death penalty site has an extensive catalogue of resources and web links on both sides of the issue.
• Death Penalty Information Center
  Contains an extensive collection of information regarding the death penalty such as which states have capital punishment, the number of people on death row in each state, exonerations of people who were sentenced to death, executions by state, imposition of the death penalty upon those who were children at the time of the crime or the mentally regarded, as well as current developments and links to many other sources of information.  Now includes a searchable database with detailed information about all U.S. executions in the modern era.
• Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
  The Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama is a private, nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.  EJI represents many of the men on Alabama's Death Row.
• Federal Capital Defense Counsel - Habeas Assistance Project
  This site is maintained by the Federal Defense Counsel Project, which assists people facing federal death penalty trials, and the Habeas Assistance and Training Project, which assists people representing the condemned in post-conviction proceedings. It includes materials such as an overview of the federal death penalty trial process, summaries of court opinions, statutes, briefs, and matters pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
  GFADP is a state-wide grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations united to abolish the death penalty in Georgia and around the world.
• Hands Off Cain
  Excellent international anti-death penalty site.
• Illinois State Appellate Defender 
  The best place to go for Seventh Circuit death penalty information.
• Innocence Project of the National Capital Region
  The site provides access to information about our Project, innocence news, upcoming events, case updates, volunteer opportunities, links and online donations.
• Justice Center at University of Alaska
  This site contains a good deal of general information and internet links about the death penalty.
• Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy
  Many valuable resources for capital practitioners, particularly in Kentucky.
• Louisiana Indigent Defense Board
  This site contains a large collection of pretrial motions for capital cases.
• Missouri Public Interest Litigation Clinic
  Good collection of post-conviction motions, pleadings, and clemency petitions.
• Moratorium Now! / Equal Justice USA
• Multi-County Public Defender Office (Georgia)
  The Multi-County Public Defender Office serves as a trial resource center for attorneys handling death penalty cases in Georgia. The Office is available in every capitally charged felony case to serve as a resource and to provide consultation to locally appointed counsel.
• Murder Victims Family for Reconciliation
  Murder Victims Family for Reconciliation is a national organization of family members of both homicide and state killings who oppose the death penalty, advocate for programs and policies that reduce the rate of homicide and promote crime prevention and alternatives to violence and supports programs that address the needs of victims, helping them to rebuild their lives.
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
  NACDL, founded in 1958, with more than 10,400 direct members and 80 state and local affiliate organizations with another 28,000 members, is the preeminent organization in the United States advancing the mission of the nation's criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct.  Its website includes information on continuing legal education programs that it conducts regularly, indigent defense news, information and legislation affecting the criminal justice system, resources for lawyers, and other topics.  The site is designed as both an open forum for the discussion of criminal justice policies and practice as well as a private online service for members of NACDL.
• National Coalition Against the Death Penalty
  Contains good information about ongoing legislative drives, as well as up-to-date information on impending executions.
• New York State Defender Association
  Great resource for criminal defense and capital litigation in the Northeast.
• Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA)
  PJA is a national membership organization dedicated to the Jewish traditions of pursuing peace, promoting equality and diversity, and ensuring social and economic justice in the United States, Israel, the Middle East, and throughout the world.  One of PJA's highest priorities is establishing a moratorium on the death penalty in California.
• Texas Defender Service
  Excellent resources for lawyers fighting the death penalty in Texas.

PRISONS AND JAILS LINKS

• Other Side of the Wall
  A wonderful and expansive website devoted to prisoners and prison issues, including articles, features, inmate artwork and writings, and prison news.
• Prisoner Activist Resource Center
  PARC is a source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system.
• Prisonsucks.com
  A clearinghouse for useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry.
• Correctional Healthcare Consortium -- You can look up lots of prison information by state. But this site has not been updated since November 2002.
• The Fortune Society Staffed primarily by ex-offenders, The Fortune Society is a not-for-profit community-based organization dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime. We also help ex-offenders and at-risk youth break the cycle of crime and incarceration through a broad range of services.
• The Osborne Association offers many services for prisoners in New York State, including the AIDS in Prison project, which accepts collect calls about HIV or AIDS from New York prisoners. Also see the statistics that cycle through a box on the screen. 
• Texas Inmate Families Association  
• Centerforce Support for families and visitors of prisoners, in Northern and Central California. The Centerforce mission is to strengthen individuals and families affected by incarceration through a comprehensive system of education and support. Also see: Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
• Yahoo's Web page on recent prison news.
• Pampered Prisoner A pen-pal personals site that includes miscellaneous resource lists.
• American Corrections Association "The official home of corrections," with lots of information including some on health care, and HIV. Also see http://www.corrections.com/aca, the American Corrections Association, which includes an archive of April 2002 oral talks on hepatitis in prison.
• National Commission on Correctional Health Care Provides standards, guidelines, and technical assistance on health care for prisoners. The mission of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care is to improve the quality of health care in jails, prisons and juvenile confinement facilities. They are not activists, but accredit prison health programs as meeting their standards; accreditation is voluntary, but over 500 institutions are accredited. They have some of the best reports and figures; for example, see The Health Status of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates volumes 1 and 2.
• National Criminal Justice Research Service. Huge database of reports on prison, law enforcement, courts, and crime. 
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data.
  
  

• HIV/AIDS Medical and Service Information (Note separate hepatitis C section below.)
  
  The Body's "Prisoners and HIV/AIDS" page has links to dozens of articles including personal accounts, legal information, HIV and HCV treatment, and general news.
   
  Prison Initiative of the National Minority AIDS Council. See their resource list for: Conferences; Correctional setting-specific publications; Newsletters; Pamphlets, brochures & handouts on HIV/AIDS; Videos; General health info/STD; Hepatitis; Policy reports & other good stuff; Additional resources for inmates.
   
  HIV Education Prison Project (HEPP), a monthly newsletter. Published by Brown University, HEPP Report, a forum for correctional problem solving, targets correctional administrators and HIV/AIDS and hepatitis care providers including physicians, nurses, outreach workers, and case managers. Publishes monthly newsletter on HIV treatment in prison; current and back issues are available on the Web.
   
  U.S. government HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines.
   
  New Mexico AIDS Infonet, Practical treatment information organized as almost 140 single-page fact sheets on topics including background on AIDS, prevention, services, antivirals, opportunistic infections, side effects of medicines, alternative and complementary treatments, and AIDS Web links.
   
  California Prison Focus HIV/Hepatitis C has news stories, letters, links. Purposes include fight for consistent access to quality medical care including access to all new HIV and hepatitis C medications, diagnostic testing and combination therapies.
  
  PASAN.  Canadian organization with amazing prison planning and discharge resources -- much of it useful in the U.S. and other countries as well. See especially "PROS & CONS: A Guide to Creating Successful Community-Based HIV/AIDS Programs for Prisoners," published 2002; it's available through the "IN PRINT" link on the home page.
   
  "HIV in Prison 2000" - by Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.
   
  Hopkins AIDS Education.  (You may need to select the Corrections chapter.) The Corrections chapter is no longer in the print version, but the 2000/2001 chapter is still online.
   
  HIV on Lockdown Select the July/August 2001 issues of Positively Aware.
   
  American Civil Liberties Union HIV issues, including a section on prison.
   
  Prisonpoz. Has an email list on HIV and related conditions in prison.
  
  HVC (Hepatitis C) and Prison -- Resources 

  The National Hepatitis C Prison Coalition was formed to bring together organizations and individuals interested in raising awareness and providing support to prisoners who are suffering from hepatitis and HIV/HCV co-infection. Our goal is to help educate prisoners and advocate for better testing, treatment and prevention of these diseases. Site has many useful links on HCV, HIV, and prisons (check the bottom of the home page, as well as the "Links" page).
   
  HCV Prison Project, a consortium of organizations working to provide support and education to prisoners with hepatitis C and co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C. Our goal is to bring about
  more awareness of the HCV epidemic in prisons and ensure that prisoners are treated fairly and humanely and are given access to prevention measures, diagnosis and treatment consistent with community standards of care.
  
  Prisons.org Here are links to some other organizations/publications working on issues related to HIV/HCV in prison.

JUVENILE JUSTICE LINKS

• Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (JJPL)
  JJPL is a non-profit statewide law and advocacy center dedicated to juvenile justice reform.  The website mirrors JJPL's broad-based strategy for reform by offering resources for juvenile public defenders, parents advocating for their individual children in the juvenile justice system, and communities organizing for change.

• The Beat Within is a publication of the writings and art from Juvenile Halls and beyond.

GENERAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE LINKS

• Crime Resources
  This website contains crime-related books, news, and links.
• CURE (Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants)
  CURE is a nationwide organization, with state chapters, dedicated to the reduction of crime through reform of the criminal justice system.
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums
  FAMM is a national organization of citizens working to reform federal and state mandatory sentencing laws that remove judicial discretion.
• Legal Action Center
  The Legal Action Center is the only non-profit law and policy organization in the United States whose sole mission is to fight discrimination against people with histories of addiction, HIV/AIDS, or criminal records, and to advocate for sound public policies in these areas.
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  NACDL, founded in 1958, with more than 10,400 direct members and 80 state and local affiliate organizations with another 28,000 members, is the preeminent organization in the United States advancing the mission of the nation's criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct.  Its website includes information on continuing legal education programs that it conducts regularly, indigent defense news, information and legislation affecting the criminal justice system, resources for lawyers, and other topics.  The site is designed as both an open forum for the discussion of criminal justice policies and practice as well as a private online service for members of NACDL.
• National Center for Institutions and Alternatives
  NCIA provides training, technical assistance, research and direct services to criminal justice, social service, and mental health organizations and clients across the United States.
• The Sentencing Project
  This site features news, events, and a variety of downloadable publications concerning sentencing, incarceration, felony disenfranchisement, juvenile justice, drug policy, and other issues.