Organizations

  • #8CantWait is a campaign to bring immediate change to police departments. See also #8ToAbolition.
  • The mission of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) is to provide direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and to raise awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned, detained, and deported.
  • Black & Pink National is a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support, and organizing.  
  • California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) is a grassroots abolitionist organization—with members inside and outside prison—that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC).
  • Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex (PIC) by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.
  • The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) is a prisoner-led section of the Industrial Workers of the World. They struggle to end prison slavery along with allies and supporters on the outside.
  • INCITE! is a network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities.
  • Interrupting Criminalization is an initiative led by researchers Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie. The project aims to interrupt and end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense, including criminalization and incarceration of survivors of violence.
  • LGBT Books To Prisoners is a donation-funded, volunteer-run organization based in Madison, WI, that sends books and other educational materials, free of charge, to incarcerated LGBTQ people across the United States.
  • The Prison Library Support Network is an information-based collective founded in 2016 to support incarcerated people by organizing networks for sharing resources and building capacity for the movement for prison abolition in libraries, archives, and other knowledge-based institutions.
  • Project Nia works to end the incarceration of children and young adults by promoting restorative and transformative justice practices.
  • Survived and Punished is a national volunteer project to end the criminalization of survivors of domestic & sexual violence.