End Silence: The Project on Addressing Prison Rape, Washington College of Law, American University – is committed to eliminating sexual abuse for individuals in custodial settings. The Project on Addressing Prison Rape is a leader in addressing the implications and implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) and its standards. Since 2000, the Project has provided training, technical assistance and legal guidance for correctional agencies, advocates and survivors who want to effectively prevent, respond and eliminate sexual abuse in custodial settings. Overall, the Project has four goals: 1) training; 2) technical assistance; 3) legal expertise regarding sexual abuse in custodial settings; and 4) providing guidance on issues correctional agencies and advocates face in addressing PREA and responding to sexual abuse in custodial settings, Washington, DC.
Prison Activist Resource Center – a prison abolitionist group committed to exposing and challenging all forms of institutionalized racism, sexism, able-ism, heterosexism, and classism, specifically within the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). PARC believes in building strategies and tactics that build safety in our communities without reliance on the police or the PIC. We produce a directory that is free to prisoners upon request, and seek to work in solidarity with prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends and families. We also work with teachers and activists on many prison issues. This work includes building action networks and materials that expose the continuing neglect and outright torture of more than 2 million people imprisoned within the USA; as well as the 5+ million who are under some form of surveillance and control by the so-called justice system, Oakland, CA. See PARC Prisoner Support Directory.
Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons – a national effort to clarify the nature and extent of violence, sexual abuse, degradation, and other serious safety failures and abuses in prisons and jails throughout the United States, as well as the consequences for prisoners, corrections officers, and the public at large. Vera Institute of Justice established the Commission in 2005, New York, NY and Washington, DC.
Just Detention International (formerly Stop Prisoner Rape) – has three core goals for its work: 1) to ensure government accountability for prisoner rape, 2) to transform ill-informed public attitudes about sexual violence in detention, and 3) to promote access to resources for those who have survived this form of abuse, Los Angeles, CA.
TGI Justice – a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people ~ inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers ~ creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self-determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice, San Francisco, CA.
