Hillyer Core 120 Spring 2024: Advocacy Organizatons and Websites

Custom Google search of almost 600 think tank websites. Find reports, grey literature, and more from partisan and non-partisan think tanks.

Advocates for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice.

A nonprofit watchdog organization that works to uncover the truth about solitary confinement and other harsh prison conditions in the United States by producing high-quality investigative journalism, accurate information, and authentic storytelling from both sides of prison walls.

Listening to the voices of corrections leaders, formerly incarcerated people, scholars, thought leaders from across the political spectrum, and members of the public, we have settled on a singular foundational value—human dignity—on which a new prison system, and new ethos of confinement, should be based.

Cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization.

Expertise on state related deaths and their investigation.

Documents the fiscal and human costs of mass incarceration in Los Angeles.

Uses public history, art, story-telling and media to engage communities in conversation about the complex roles of prisons in America. Also functions as a virtual museum and library curating, interpreting and lending information about prison history in the United States to a global public.

States of Incarceration is created by over 800 people in 18 states, and growing. We explore the roots of mass incarceration in our own communities—to open national dialogue on what should happen next.

The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and women and men directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization who are working to end the carceral state.

Features urgent and informed writings on the history of prisons and prison rebellion.