This list is a helpful starting point for finding further information and support for children and families of the incarcerated. Listing of a website does not indicate that NRCCFI at Rutgers University–Camden endorses the website.
Advocacy & General Information
- Alliance of Incarcerated Canadians in American Prisons
- Annie E Casey Foundation
- American Correctional Association
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Barnard Center for Research on Women – Children of Incarcerated Parents – Spring 2010 Issues of “The Scholar and Feminist Online” webjournal.
- Children’s Defense Fund
- Correctional Education Association
- Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
- Critical Resistance
- Earned Income Credit and Child Tax Credit – Helping Individuals Released From Prison Maximize Their Earning. For Tax Credit Outreach 2011, click here.
- Efficacy
- FASTEN (Faith & Service Technical Education Network) offers networking opportunities and informational resources to equip faith-based practices, congregations, private philanthropists and public administrators seeking to collaborate effectively to renew urban communities
- Fatherhood Educational Institute
- Florida State University Criminal Justice Links
- Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development
- Grandsplace
- Hope House Resources for Children of Prisoners
- Join Together
- Justice Information Center -National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- National Center on Institutions and Alternatives
- National Directory of Programs for Women with Criminal Justice Involvement
- National Fatherhood Initiative
- National Institute of Corrections
- National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute
- National Prison Hospice Association
- NIC Information Center
- Penal Reform International – produces an E-news Bulletin that is a round-up of penal reform news from around the world. To subscribe, visit this page.
- Prison Policy Initiative
- The Rebecca Project for Human Rights of the National Women’s Law Center has put out the report, Mothers Behind Bars. This report gives a state-by-state report card and analysis of federal policies on conditions of confinement for pregnant and parenting women and the effect on their children.
- San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents
Resources for Incarcerated Parents
- Prisoners of the Census
- Prisons Foundation
- Sentencing Project
- State Corrections Directory
- Vera Institute of Justice
Legal Assistance & Information
- ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union
- FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources
- Legal Action Center
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and their November 2010 report: “California’s Mother-Infant Prison Programs: An Investigation“.
- North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc.
- Prisoners Rights Resource Guide
- National Lawyer’s Guild
Research Resources
- The Kellog Foundation
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Casey Family Programs
- Urban Institute
- Jane Addams College of Social Work
- Chapin Hall
- Sentencing Project – The Sentencing Project’s Race and Justice Clearinghouse is a database of annotated citations for more than 450 research articles, studies, reports, and books that explore the intersection of race and ethnicity within the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems. The database is updated monthly to offer a free, comprehensive search engine of resources.