Member Organizations
American Civil Liberties Union of MassachusettsFor almost 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEThe American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. Drawing on continuing spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, they nurture the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social relations and systems.
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Black & PinkBlack & Pink is an open family of LGBTQ prisoners and “free world” allies who support each other. Their work toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex is rooted in the experience of currently and formerly incarcerated people. They are outraged by the specific violence of the prison industrial complex against LGBTQ people, and respond through advocacy, education, direct service, and organizing.
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Boston Jobs CoalitionBoston Jobs Coalition is a citywide coalition of community groups, labor unions, advocacy organizations and contractors, dedicated to winning good construction and permanent jobs for Boston residents, people of color and women.
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Boston Workers AllianceBoston Workers Alliance, is a community organization led by unemployed and underemployed workers fighting for employment rights. It united to end CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) discrimination and the crisis of joblessness in the community. It fights for social and economic justice by creating and demanding good jobs for all.
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Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge Health Alliance is an academic community healthcare system committed to serving all members of our communities. It has expertise in primary care, mental health and substance abuse, and caring for diverse and complex populations. CHA patients receive high quality care in convenient neighborhood locations.
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Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & JusticeThe Institute honors and continues the unfinished work of Charles Hamilton Houston, one of the 20th century’s most important legal scholars and litigators. By facilitating a continuous dialogue between practitioners and scholars, he ensured that legal scholarship would resonate outside the academy, and that new legal strategies would be immediately incorporated into the training and practice of lawyers.
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Committee for Public Counsel ServicesCPCS provides legal representation in Massachusetts for those unable to afford an attorney in all matters in which the law requires the appointment of counsel. This includes representation in criminal, delinquency, youthful offender, child welfare, mental health, sexually dangerous person and sex offender registry cases, as well as related appeals and post-conviction matters. |
Criminal Justice policy coalitionThe Criminal Justice Policy Coalition is a member-based, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of effective, just, and humane criminal justice policy in Massachusetts.
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Cure InternationalCure International is a faith based organization thats mission is to "cure international, healing the sick and proclaiming the kingdom of God." It aims to help sick people and provide health care management services.
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End Mass Incarceration Together (Of UUMass Action)EMIT — End MAss Incarceration Together is a statewide working group of the Unitarian Universalist Mass Action Network. A common faith (Unitarian Universalism) unites progressive thinkers who act on their beliefs. EMIT is part of a coalition of groups in Massachusetts that advocate, inform and act for systematic criminal justice reform now.
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Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community AdvancementThis organization believe that social change can only be led by the people who most need the change. No one can give power to someone else. Therefore, those of us who have the least advantage, the least power within the traditional system, have to work together to change the situation ourselves. |
Families Against Mandatory MinimumsFamm is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization fighting for smart sentencing laws that protect public safety. They see a country where criminal sentencing is individualized, humane, and sufficient to impose fair punishment and protect public safety. |
Families for Justice As HealingFamilies for Justice as Healing focuses on raising public awareness about the incarceration of women and the impact on children and communities. Their mission is to reduce the incarceration population of women in the United States by shifting toward community wellness alternatives instead of prisons. |
Harvard Prison Legal Assistance ProjectThe Prison Legal Assistance Project (PLAP) is a student practice organization in which students represent inmates in Massachusetts prisons. PLAP student attorneys argue at disciplinary hearings on behalf of prisoners charged with violating prison regulations. PLAP students also argue before the Massachusetts Parole Board for prisoners facing parole revocation or rescission and second degree life sentence hearings. In addition, PLAP provides inmates with assistance in matters ranging from civil rights violations to confiscated property.
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Justice with JeanJean Trounstine is an activist, author and professor at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Massachusetts who worked at Framingham Women’s Prison for ten years where she directed eight plays with prisoners.
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Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense LawyersMACDL's mission is to preserve the adversary system of justice; to maintain and foster independent and able criminal defense lawyers and to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime. MACDL will be an advocate for the advocate.
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Massachusetts Communities Action NetworkMassachusetts Communities Action Network (MCAN) is a network of faith-based community organizations in MA working for economic and racial justice. It is inspired by faith traditions’ deep and enduring call to justice.
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Mental Health Legal Advisors CommitteeThis organization works to enhance and protect the rights of persons with mental health concerns in key areas most closely related to their ability to live full and independent lives free of discrimination. All callers who present with a legal issue related to mental health within broad priorities will receive basic advice and referral information.
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Prisoners' Legal ServicesPrisoners’ Legal Services promotes the safe, humane and lawful treatment of Massachusetts prisoners through civil rights litigation, administrative advocacy, client counseling, and outreach to policy makers and the public. |
Real Cost of Prisons ProjectThe Real Cost of Prisons Project works to broaden and deepen the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists and people directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to be better informed and more effective in order to challenge the U.S. prison system.
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Span, INc.Span Inc.’s mission is to assist people who are or have been in prison to achieve healthy, productive and meaningful lives. It believes that breaking the cycles of addiction, unemployment, crime, and imprisonment benefits everyone - victims, offenders, families, and communities.
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Survivors INc.Survivors Inc. is a group of low-income women and their allies who organize and educate around poverty, welfare and low-income survival issues. It offers training in writing, speaking, advocacy, computer skills, desktop publishing, organizing, membership and leadership. With these skills it is able to provide a forum for the voices of low-income women to be heard.
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Through Barbed WireThrough Barbed Wire aims to bring together volunteers, ex-prisoners, families and friends of prisoners to present monthly events (readings, films, performances, discussions) related to imprisonment. This is meant to (re)establish & maintain ties to our neighborhoods/offer & provide genuine service to society. |