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Resources are divided into several topics. Use the links in
the left column or below to access a topic.
Mission
The Shalom Community Center is a safe daytime resource center
for those who are experiencing homelessness and poverty. To this end:
- We serve as a bridge between our guests and over 18 social
service agencies that send representatives to the center.
- We provide in-house programs that help people improve their
prospects for self-sufficiency.
- We help people navigate the complex system of support they
need. We do not duplicate, but rather help improve the efficiency of
available service providers.
We also offer a variety of services such as breakfast and
lunch daily, laundry facilities, art and writing groups, a small
library, clothing, and much more. Check out our Programs and Services
for more information.
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Help for Children of Inmates
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We can be reached
at 32 Oak Grove Road, Palmyra, VA 22963, (434) 589-3036, (434) 589-6520
fax, and e-mail: fcn@fcnetwork.org.
Our web site is www.fcnetwork.org.
Our
Executive Director: Jim Mustin.
FCN
Mission Statement
The mission of
Family and Corrections Network (FCN) is to uphold families of prisoners
as a valued resource to themselves and their communities in order that
the criminal justice system, other institutions and society become
supportive of family empowerment, integrity, and self-determination.
FCN works
alongside families of prisoners, program providers, policy makers,
researchers, educators, correctional personnel and the public by:
1) convening
national meetings for mutually respectful learning, interaction and
dialogue;
2) distributing
information through FCN's publications, web site, and speakers' bureau;
3) designing and
supplying technical materials, tools and services;
4) advocating
criminal justice policy reform that upholds the value of families;
5) encouraging
networking among families of prisoners for mutual support and
cooperative action; and
6) creating
opportunities for linking with and learning from families of prisoners.
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Mission Statement
CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants) is a
membership organization of families of prisoners, prisoners, former
prisoners and other concerned citizens. CURE's two goals are(1) to use
prisons only for those who have to be in them (2) and for those who
have to be in them, to provide them all the rehabilitative
opportunities they need to turn their lives around.
Indiana-Cure
P.O. Box 199256
Indianapolis, IN 46219
Phone: 317/274-4525 weekdays
317-356-2606 nights & weekends
Email: csweetco@iupui.edu
http://www.curenational.org
Working in partnership with San Quentin State Prison, Insight
Prison Project (IPP) runs 15 unique classes through our Success
Dorm. These classes are dedicated to bridging the gap between
punishment and parole, through effective rehabilitation programming.
Some of the programs we offer are: Violence Prevention, Positive
Parenting, Pre-parole, and Meditation. We have also started Peer
Education classes that are taught byprisoners.
Prison Project at Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Is deeply committed to working with prisoners, their
families, and all other persons associated with the prison system to
address the systemic violence within the prison-industrial complex.
Prison Moratorium Project
A nonprofit organization based in New York City that works
locally and nationally to stop prison expansion and mass incarceration,
and re-invest resources into communities most impacted by criminal
justice policies through educational programs,
alternatives-to-incarceration initiatives, housing and sustainable
economic development.
No More Prisons
Stop the building of prisons in America
The Fight for Justice Organization
P.O. BOX 756
Sauk Rapids, MN 56379-0756
info@capitalpunishment-mn.org
This organization advocates the death penalty.
Katargeo Solano
Louis Wright's (IPP Teacher, Pre-Parole class) post release
program in Solano County.
Book Not Bars
An organization dedicated to advocacy, grassroots
organization and public education to end the over-incarceration of
youth.
Centerforce
Centerforce provides services for prisoners, ex-prisoners,
and family members of prisoners.
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Department of Justice Prison and Parole Information
Includes links and addresses to all federal prisons, state
prisons and county jails, federal and state inmate locators, prisoner
transportation and transfer information, etc.
American Civil Liberties Union Prison Project
This organization focuses to create constitutional conditions
of confinement and strengthen prisoners' rights. It remains as the only
national litigation program on behalf of prisoners.
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"Juvies" by Chance Films
A moving and courageous documentary covering the plight of
American youth being tried as Adults. Some 200,000 children will be
tried and sentenced as Adults, doing time in State Penitentaries.
» "Juvies" by Chance Films
Web Site
National and regional services in the criminal justice system
utilizing a social model approach for community building in
collaboration with policy makers and other leaders in the correctional
community.
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What is Therapeutic Justice
"…one nation...justice for all…" says the Pledge
of Allegiance of the United States of America. That promise and the
fact that things change over time, make therapeutic justice a practical
way to guarantee the rights of all citizens today. Therapeutic Justice
means that any involvement, and all contact with the criminal justice
system, would offer an opportunity for education, healing, and
restoration for the victim, the offender, the community, and the
criminal justice system staff.
Therefore, Therapeutic Justice means working
together to increase respect, usefulness, and safety in an area of
human experience that has all too often been characterized by pain,
neglect, and frustration. In 3,000 years of western history, we have
never gotten safe by being tough (James Gilligan, Harvard Researcher).
Therapeutic Justice means communities reassume
the responsibility for satisfying justice and correctional systems
become known as human service centers.
The
Center for Therapeutic Justice is committed to solutions that come
from making policy decisions that offer changes that reduce misery and
crime and increase safety and cost savings.
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Phone: 757-561-8907
Email: centerforjustice@aol.com
Address: P.O. Box 641, Williamsburg, VA 23187 |
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