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Full-Text Materials
Links
- ACLU
- The ACLU Drug Policy Litigation Project (DPLP),
founded in 1999, conducts the only national
litigation program addressing civil rights and
civil liberties violations arising from the
War on Drugs.
- AlterNet
Drug Reporter - AlterNet brings you the
latest dispatches from the front lines of the
drug war.
- Campaign
for Effective Criminal Justice - The Campaign
for Effective Criminal Justice (CECJ) is an
organization of over a dozen distinguished leaders
in law enforcement, politics, business, and
clergy intent on reforming New York's drug sentencing
laws.
- Campus
Action Web Center - a multi-racial organization
striving to build a stronger progressive social
change movement.
- Center
for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services
(CASES) - The mission of CASES is to increase
the understanding
and use of community sanctions that are fair,
affordable, and consistent with public safety.
- DRCNet
- A major educational and advocacy organization
and network of citizens working for reform of
US drug laws and an end to prohibition, or legalization,
worldwide.
- Drug
Policy Alliance - The Alliance, headquartered
in New York, is the nation's leading organization
working to end the war on drugs.
- Drop
the Rock -A campaign to repeal the Rockefeller
Drug Laws, composed of young community activists,
veteran criminal justice reformers, artists,
students, former inmates, politicians, and religious,
civic, and labor leaders.
- FAMM
- A national nonprofit organization founded
in 1991 to challenge inflexible and excessive
penalties required by mandatory sentencing laws.
- 15
years to Life - The website of Anthony Papa,
an artist and drug war activist who co-founded
the Mothers
of the New York Disappeared.
- Fortune
Society
- Staffed primarily by ex-prisoners, The
Fortune Society is a not-for-profit community-based
organization dedicated to educating the public
about prisons, criminal justice issues, and
the root causes of crime.
- Hip-Hop
Summit Action Network - Founded in 2001,
the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) is
dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance
of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for
education advocacy and other societal concerns
fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth
throughout the United States.
- Human
Rights Watch: Reforming the Rockefeller Drug
laws - Human Rights Watch is dedicated to
protecting the human rights of people around
the world.
- Interfaith
Impact of New York State - the progressive
religious community's united voice for social
change in New York State.
- Legal
Action Center Alcohol and Drug Programs
- The Legal Action Center works to reduce alcohol
and drug addiction and abuse and the harm it
causes to millions of individuals and their
families and friends.
- New
York Civil Liberties Union - The New York
Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is one of the
nation's foremost defenders of civil liberties
and civil rights.
- November
Coalition - Educates the public about destructive,
unnecessary incarceration due to the U.S. drug
war.
- NYS
Defenders Association - The New York State
Defenders Association, a not-for-profit, membership
organization, has been providing support to
New York's criminal defense community since
1967. Its mission is to improve the quality
and scope of publicly supported legal representation
to low income people.
- The
Real Cost of Prisons Project - The Real
Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice
activists, political economists, artists, justice
policy researchers and people directly experiencing
the impact of mass incarceration to create popular
education workshops and materials which explore
both the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration
on the individual, her/his family, community
and the nation.
- Sentencing
Project - The Sentencing Project, incorporated
in 1986, has become a national leader in the
development of alternative sentencing programs
and in research and advocacy on criminal justice
policy.
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