Here are some other advocacy organizations both on the state level and nation wide that advocate for current and formerly incarcerated citizens. Please visit their website and support their efforts!
- DreamCorps Justice – https://www.thedreamcorps.org
- DreamCorps Justice is a bipartisan effort to cut crime and incarceration across all 50 states. We bring together leaders impacted by the criminal justice system with unlikely allies spanning the political divide to push for criminal justice solutions.
- Reform Alliance – https://reformalliance.com/
- The mission of the REFORM Alliance is to dramatically reduce the number of people who are unjustly under the control of the criminal justice system – starting with probation and parole. To win, we will work to change laws, policies, hearts and minds.
- Fresh Coast Alliance – https://www.freshcoastalliance.org/
- In 2013, a group of concerned community members were searching for a way to serve the unmet needs in Muskegon. What began as Bridge to Communities refined itself into 70×7 Life Recovery Muskegon in 2015 with a focus on prisoner reentry.
- In partnership with Christ, this group of community members joined others to include a focus on both prisoner reentry and recovery services. Today we are Fresh Coast Alliance. We believe this new name captures the collaborative and like-minded nature of our members to join with our community Centered in Christ, we hope, learn, work, heal and dream together to transform lives.
- Nation Outside – https://www.nationoutside.org/
- Nation Outside is a movement that uses community education strategies and civic engagement initiatives to inspire our members and the community to get involved in knowledgeable, sustainable, and socially just forms of advocacy to support currently and formerly incarcerated folks, their loved ones, and their communities in order to inspire and create real reform in the criminal justice system.
- Safe and Just – Michigan – https://www.safeandjustmi.org/
- They work to advance policies that end Michigan’s over-use of incarceration and promote community safety and healing.
- Humanity for Prisoners – https://www.humanityforprisoners.org/
- Personalized and compassionate problem-solving services for persons serving time in order to alleviate suffering beyond the administration of their sentences – for people who don’t know where to turn. (Michigan Organization)
- Michigan Ombudsman – https://council.legislature.mi.gov/Ombudsman/Index
- Office of Legislative Corrections Ombudsman (LCO) is a nonpartisan legislative agency responsible for investigating complaints regarding the state prison system filed with LCO by Legislators, prisoners, family members and MDOC staff that are alleged to be a violation of state law or Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) policy, a significant health or safety issue, and other matters for which there is no effective administrative remedy
- MI – CURE – https://www.mi-cure.org/
- MI-CURE is a grassroots justice reform organization. It is a chapter of National CURE. We work to educate and inspire individuals to advocate for themselves and for improvements in the state’s justice systems. We do that by publishing a quarterly newsletter, publishing self-help literature, and hosting an annual membership meeting.
- Alliance for Safety & Justice – https://allianceforsafetyandjustice.org/
- Alliance for Safety and Justice (ASJ) is a multi-state organization that aims to replace over-incarceration with more effective public safety solutions rooted in crime prevention, community health, rehabilitation and support for crime victims. Focused on the largest states in the country, we partner with state leaders and advocates to achieve safety and justice reforms through advocacy, organizing, coalition building, research and communications.
- American Friends Service Committee – https://www.afsc.org/
- Founded in 1917, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action.
- ACLU of Michigan – https://www.aclumich.org/
- The ACLU of Michigan’s mission remains realizing the promise of the Bill of Rights for all and expanding the reach of its guarantees to new areas through all the tools at our disposal: public education, advocacy, organizing, and litigation.
- State Appellate Defender Office (SADO) – http://www.sado.org/
- Fighting injustice through access, advocacy, compassion, and education.
- Friends of Restorative Justice – http://www.friendsofrestorativejustice.org/
- Friends of Restorative Justice (FORJ) is a group of people from Washtenaw County and surrounding areas who are working together to bring restorative justice to our community. We come from different backgrounds but all have a desire to change our punitive justice system to a more restorative system.
- A Brighter Way – https://www.abrighterway.org/
- A Brighter Way (ABW) believes that every person deserves: hope, respect and support. The goal of ABW is to help people find stability in Washtenaw County by providing mentoring and other services that promote:
- Communication Skills
- Job Retention
- Building, utilizing and maintaining a social support network after incarceration
- A Brighter Way (ABW) believes that every person deserves: hope, respect and support. The goal of ABW is to help people find stability in Washtenaw County by providing mentoring and other services that promote:
- Citizens for Prison Reform – http://www.micpr.org/
- CPR is a grass-roots, family-led initiative that engages, educates and empowers families and those affected by crime and punishment to advance their constitutional, civil and human rights.
- Just Leadership – https://jlusa.org/
- JustLeadershipUSA, a national non-profit, is led by directly impacted people and is dedicated to decarcerating the United States by educating, elevating and empowering the people and communities most impacted by systemic racism to drive, amplify, and sustain the kinds of policy reform that builds thriving, sustainable and healthy communities.
- Prison Activist Resource Center – https://www.prisonactivist.org/
- PARC is a prison abolitionist group based on Oakland, California committed to exposing and challenging the institutionalized racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, and classism of the Prison Industrial
- Inside Justice – https://www.insidejustice.com/
- Since 2005, Inside Justice has been pursuing a multilayered agenda to promote a just, fair, inclusive, and peaceful future for all. The rule of law, access to justice, human rights, strong institutions, and sustainable inclusive societies are at the core of our education and training programs, technical assistance, and advocacy initiatives for effective justice reforms and governance strengthening.
- Michigan Center for Youth Justice – https://www.miyouthjustice.org/
- We work to advance policies and practices that reduce confinement and support trauma-informed, racially equitable, socio-economically and culturally responsive, community-based solutions for Michigan’s justice-involved children, youth and young adults.