Resources

The following is a list of resources designed to assist those in prison, their loved ones, and supporters of all kinds.

• The National Lawyers Guild supplies many free publications such as The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook, created to assist inmates in defending themselves.
• “Rights of Inmates” is an article proffered by Find Law and lists all of the guaranteed rights inmates have.
• The Prison Activist Resource Network has lots of different types of resources from news to advice on dealing with incarceration.
• Prisoner’s Rights is a Cornell University Law School article about the Constitutional rights of inmates.
• Justice Denied is a magazine for the wrongly convicted and is host of resources for inmates, stories and an avenue for inmates to interact with the outside world.
• Prison Legal News is an independent media outlet for prison related news. They also host an inmate locator and a referral directory.
• The Sentencing Project is a national leader in the development of alternative sentencing programs and in research and advocacy on criminal justice policy.
• Self-Ownership: The Foundation of Freedom – an essay by David MacGregor on Strike The Root
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1849

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