RESOURCES:

We've collected a number of useful resources related to prison education and writing programs. You'll find links to several other organizations in Wisconsin and across the United States who are working hard to provide essential services to the incarcerated, as well as links to general information and statistics about our country's prison system and those inside it.

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice

Wisconsin Books to Prisoners Project

Community Connections

Madison Area Urban Ministry

Attic Correctional Services

Correctional Education Association—Wisconsin

Wisconsin Department of Corrections

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

The Sentencing Project

Justice Policy Institute

Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

OTHER PRISON INFORMATION:

Dr. Pamela Oliver’s (University of Wisconsin Madison) excellent scholarship on racial disparities in the criminal justice system

America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline Report (pdf) (Children’s Defense Fund, 2007)

Wisconsin Racial Disparities Oversight Commission’s 2008 report (pdf)

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