LINK PAGE:blogs, webs, studies done by others who care and are busy in the struggle
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well known, tired and true Supermaxed.com   http://supermaxed.com/ An informational and educational Website about Supermax and Maximum Security Prisons . .
Prison Legal News- Dedicated to protecting Human Rights Prison Legal News is an independent 48-page monthly magazine that provides a cutting edge review and analysis of prisoner rights,
solitary survival manuals- to download, read,  and send to prisoners
2008 manual by AFSC
http://realcostofprisons.org/materials/Survivors_manual_2008-11-24.pdf
AFSC is a Quaker organization devoted to service, development, and peace programs throughout the world. Our work is based on the belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice
Another AFSC site, devoted to the injustice of solitary confinement.
http://www.afsc.org/stopmax/   AFSC: StopMax
http://sfbayview.com/ National Black Newspaper
Isthmus weekly (Madison, WI)http://www.thedailypage.com/
http://www.fortunesociety.org/ Fortune Society (Re-entry
http://justicedenied.org/   Justice Denied; magazine for the wrongly convicted
The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, justice policy researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to create popular education materials and other resources which explore the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration
http://www.sisterhelen.org/ Sister Helen Prejean's Blog :
Sister Helen Prejean has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on the death penalty and helping to shape the Catholic Church’s newly vigorous opposition to state executions. She considers herself a southern storyteller and she travels around the world giving talks about her ministry. Sister Helen is a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph. She spent her first years with the Sisters teaching religion to junior high school students. Realizing that being on the side of poor people is an essential part of the Gospel, she moved into the St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans and worked at Hope House from 1984 – 1986.
During this time, she was asked to correspond with a death row inmate, Patrick Sonnier, at Angola. She agreed and became his spiritual adviser. After witnessing his execution, she wrote a book about the experience. The result was Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. The book became a movie, an opera and a play for high schools and colleges.
Since 1984, Sister Helen has divided her time between educating citizens about the death penalty and counseling individual death row prisoners. She has accompanied six men to their deaths. In doing so, she began to suspect that some of those executed were not guilty. This realization inspired her second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, which was released by Random House in December of 2004.
She is presently at work on another book, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey.
Humanity for Prisoners Blog http://humanityforprisoners.blogspot.com/Doug Tjapkes is president of a 501c3 organization called Humanity for Prisoners, located in Muskegon, Michigan. He formed the organization in 2001 based on a dream of his best friend, Maurice Carter, who had been behind bars for 29 years for a crime he did not commit. He enjoyed only three months of freedom. He died at the age of 60 in October, 2004, before he could qualify for a liver transplant. Born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan, Tjapkes is a retired broadcast journalist whose work has resulted in numerous awards and citations between 1954 and 1983.
http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=2
research and advocacy for reform
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration.
The Sentencing Project was founded in 1986 to provide defense lawyers with sentencing advocacy training and to reduce the reliance on incarceration. Since that time, The Sentencing Project has become a leader in the effort to bring national attention to disturbing trends and inequities in the criminal justice system with a successful formula that includes the publication of groundbreaking research, aggressive media campaigns and strategic advocacy for policy reform. As a result of The Sentencing Project's research, publications and advocacy, many people know that this country is the world's leader in incarceration, that one in three young black men is under control of the criminal justice system, that five million Americans can't vote because of felony convictions, and that thousands of women and children have lost welfare, education and housing benefits as the result of convictions for minor drug offenses. The Sentencing Project is dedicated to changing the way Americans think about crime and punishment.
Stuart Grassian: Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement http://law.wustl.edu/journal/22/p325grassian.pdf 
Prison Talk    The Global Communications, Support & Information Nexus for Inmates' Families & Friends
The PrisonTalk Online web community was conceived in a prison cell, designed in a halfway house, and funded by donations from families of ex-offenders, to bring those with an interest in the prisoner support community a forum in which their issues and concerns may be addressed by others in similar circumstances and beliefs.
Inside the PTO web community you will be able to find support from others who are dealing with, or have been down the same dark road you may currently find yourself, information
give these a try, feel free to report back: we always need updates and a look at how responsive  organizations are.
Voices for Term-to-Life Prisoners  http://voicesdotcon.org/   a newsletter exclusively published by term- to- life  prisoners and focusing on issues of primary concern to thoise serving long sentences.
Justice strategies  http://www.justicestrategies.net/  The Justice Strategies principals - Judith Greene and Kevin Pranis - have over 40 years of collective experience doing research and advocacy on sentencing and correctional policy, the political economy of incarceration, and the detention and imprisonment of immigrants.
http://prisonfriends4you.weebly.com/index.html Prisonfriends4you   free inmate postings http://jonsjailjournal.blogspot.com/ Jon's Jail Journal The prison blog of an Orwellian unperson
http://www.thewomenofblock12.blogspot.com/ THEWOMENOFBLOCK12 WI Freelance nonfiction writer,Linda Pischke  is a full-time nursing home social worker and active member of the St. Dismas Jail Ministry, leads a weekly women’s ministry group at a County Jail and is currently working on a collection of stories written by women prisoners.
Prison Radio’s mission is to challenge mass incarceration and racism by airing the voices of men and women in prison by bringing their voices into the public dialogue on crime and punishment. Our educational materials serve as a catalyst for public activism. Prison Radio’s productions illustrate the perspectives and the intrinsic human worth of the more than 7.1 million people under correctional control in the U.S. We seek to have listeners question the costs to society of mass incarceration and the increasing use of the death penalty. Prison Radio is a project of The Redwood Justice Fund which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the defense of the environment and of civil and human rights secured by law. Established by Judi Bari in 1994, the foundation embraces a wide array of environmental and social justice projects
MindFreedom International: Mental Health Rights and Alternative Mental Health    http://www.mindfreedom.org/
Celebrating 24 years of united independent activism for human rights and humane alternatives in mental health. MindFreedom International is a voice for survivors of abuse in mental health care.
Expanding Access to Baccalaureate Education in Wisconsin http://www.uwsa.edu/acss/cobe/final_report.pdf
http://stevendstewart.blogspot.com/ Free Steven D. Stewart Campaign
Warren Lilly's fight: Hunger Striker (WI) http://warrenlilly.blogspot.com/
http://prisonmovement.wordpress.com/ Prisonmovement's Weblog I share news articles about our nations criminal justice system- a system I believe to be flawed, broken and corrupt. Many have a distorted view of prison and our criminal justice system. It is my goal and sincere desire to reach a large audience with the hope that I can 'enlighten the masses' about what REALLY happens 'behind the walls'. We have a national incarceration crisis...Lock'em up & throw away the key...we must ask ourselves, "at what expense"? Posts here are NOT my work, unless noted as such. See my disclaimer in the 'about' section. This blog serves as a Public Service Announcement-I welcome guest bloggers!!
http://drivemovement.org/  DRIVE Movement We are a group of prisoners that seek to unite the death row community to bring about change for everyone caged here on Texas Death Row.
How to Reduce America’s Prison Population without affecting public safety  http://www.jfa-Associates.com/publications/srs/UnlockingAmerica.pdf
THE JFA INSTITUTE | 5 Walter Houp Ct, NE | Washington, DC 20002 | www.jfa-associates.com
http://www.prisonersolidarity.org/index.htm  Prisoner Solidarity
Prisoner solidarity.org serves as a catalyst for communication between prisoners and people on "the outside." It publishes updated research, news, opinion pieces and educational material from activists, writers, prisoners, and the concerned public.
Prisonersolidarity.org is a movement that grew out of the Youngstown Prison Forum. In the last decade, Ohio has had one of the largest per capita growths in prison spending in the United States. And in the rustbelt city of Youngstown, a growing (state and federally funded) prison industry has parasitically fed the economy since the steel industry's collapse. While we're based in Ohio, Prisonersolidarity also incorporates a discussion of national and international trends. We invite contributions from around the U.S. and abroad, and especially encourage submissions from prisoners, and from people wishing to discuss how their communities and families are affected by the prison industry. What are your views and concerns? Make your voice heard.
Nevada Prison Watch http://nevadaprisonwatch.blogspot.com/ Watching critically how the State of Nevada treats those in prison. Checking up on Human Rights for those imprisoned - calls for help from the dungeons
Human Rights Coalition PA/VA Chapter (FedUp!)
http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/fedup/index.htm FedUp! is the Pittsburgh chapter of the Human Rights Coalition dedicated to upholding the rights of prisoners through providing resources and support, exposing injustices, and building relationships with people in prison and their advocates. We are a organization of concerned citizens, people in prison and their loved ones. Our focus is on high level security facilities in Pennsylvania.