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Links & Resources
- Online Communities

Convicts Reunited
Convicts Reunited - The Convicts and Ex-convicts site that reunites old inmates, men and women after many a year whether you were convicted or just cautioned, find your old inmate friends or just mates you were up to no good with Families Of Sex Offenders

Please email:familiesofsexoffenders@hotmail.com
FOSO is an online community based in Australia, but all are welcome. FOSO is for the families and friends of Sex Offenders. Regardless as to whether or not the SO is supported this place is for you to share your experience and ask questions of others who have been or are in a similae situation. FOSO is here to help people come out of isolation by providing a safe free online environment.

Freedom Impaired Personals
A very friendly meeting place for those who have an association with inmates JPay Family and Friends Forum
This forum is for those of us who have loved ones locked up. Tons of useful information is here and everyone is very nice. Lost Vault Pen Pal Forums
Forums primarily relating to Inmate Pen Pals New York Inmate Families Support Group
New York Prison Info (NYPI) offers a place for the friends and families of New York inmates to come together to discuss what they are going through with others in the same situation. NYPI is a free online discussion and support group that provides a wealth of valuable information, resources and tools to help families cope with the difficult experience of having a loved one in prison. PARC Discussion Forums
Prison Activist Resource Center's online discussion forums. Prison Talk Online

PrisonTalk.com is the Premier Prisoner Support and Information Community on the Web. With over 100,000 members and millions of posts, you are sure to find what you are looking for! Prisonbid
Prison support and Information for friends and family of inmates Prisoners of Love Online Community

Prisoners of Love is both a book, a newsletter, and this web site, written and produced with the support of friends and families of the incarcerated to serve those families with dignity, love and respect.

BOPWatch
Watchdog group, news and informational exchange regarding the policies, practices and procedures of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), related issues - such as sentencing and supervision/ex-offender matters.
 

California Information Network
For all CA prisoner's families, friends, also open to family members who have lost a loved one in prison, to share information, news, "how-to's" about prison life and also gain much needed support. A place where you can ask questions about prison rules and also share other things besides prison if you choose to and possibly make new friends in the bargain. Federal CURE
FedCURE is the world's leading advocate for America's 200,298+ federal inmates and their loved ones. We are working to reinstate parole and to increase good time allowances; and we focus on issues in the federal prison system. FedCURE's central goal is to educate, inform and advocate for issues confronted by the federal prison population. We work diligently to educate and encourage elected officia Inmate Advocates Yahoo Group
The Advocates for Inmates Program is built from a network of concerned citizens who realize that inmates are human, too. To err is human, to forgive, divine…Here you will find ideas for rehabilitation, reform, prevention, educational and recovery programs, prison related issues, links to useful sites, letters from the those on the inside, messages of hope and unity, ideas for a positive change in our current faltering system. The majority of the inmates involved in our program share their experiences in the hopes of deterring youth from substance abuse and criminal activities, as well as keeping our communities alerted to the existing conditions in our correctional facilities. Inmate Wives Support Yahoo Group
I am a wife of a NYS inmate and I felt there are alot of people out there in the same situation as myself who have husbands/loved ones/children in prison and need a place to talk share their experiences dealing with it. Loving an Inmate Yahoo Group
have started this group in search of others who have a loved one or is in Love with someone who is in jail or prison. There is always someone left behind that loves them and most people don't understand or care. I sometimes don't understand myself. I am restricting this list and will only allow people that have someone they love in jail or prison. I need to talk to others that are going through this also, I am so new to this. I hope we can help each other. Yahoo State Inmate Forums

 

International Directory of Prison Ministries
Directory of Prison Ministries

Prison Talk Online Yahoo Group
The official Prison Talk Online Yahoo group. Primarily used as a backup in case the main site should go down. Prisoner Life Yahoo Group
PrisonerLife.com started with a simple idea. An idea conceived by a few prisoners incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution, Ft. Dix. These men believed there was a need to provide prisoner's families and friends, as well as the general public, a better understanding of the American prison system and the people it holds.

This forum is for you to express your opinions, exchange ideas, share information, ask questions, offer support, debate, and hopefully learn. Please do not post articles.

This group was created to help the families and loved ones of prisoners. PrisonMovement
PrisonMovement: PrisonMovement
A Blog  concerned about Prisoner Abuse, Prisoners Rights, Health care, Rehabilitation, Recidivism, Public Safety, The Death Penalty, Parole Issues, Sentencing Laws, Three Strikes, Wrongful Conviction, Mandatory Minimums and more. SOSEN (Sex Offender Support & Education Network)
We advocate for positive sex offender policies and programs that include accountability, fair sentencing, and supportive community reintegration strategies. We support the rights of former offenders and their families to live productive lives free from changing restrictions and public humiliation. We aim to educate the public and debunk myths. Forum provides education, support, and advocacy opps. Texans Against Prison Abuse
Horrific abuses, some similar to those revealed in Iraq, regularly occur in U.S. prisons with little national attention or public outrage.

We see many of the same kinds of things here in the United States, including molestive assaults and the abuse of prisoners.

Prisoners have been molested, abused by guards and humiliated but we don't talk about it much in America and we certainly don't hear the president expressing outrage.

There are deadly inadequacies' in healthcare that plague inmate wards. Gaps in evaluating care let some mistakes go unnoticed. Some come out of the state's 105 prisons sicker than they went in. Too frequently, they take strains of drug-resistant HIV into what inmates call the free world. Others are neglected or simply "left to die." Most of the information regarding prison health care is kept secret by legislative enactment.

Texas prison inmates live in fear. The more vulnerable inmates are molested, beaten, owned, and sold by more powerful ones. Despite their pleas to prison officials, they are often refused protection.

Correctional officers continue to rely on the physical control of excessive force to enforce order.

Many inmates are locked away in administrative segregation, especially those with mental illnesses, and subjected to extreme deprivations and daily psychological harm.

Texans Against Prison Abuse was established in order to provide Texas Prisoners, the Families of Texas Prisoners and Texas Prisoners Advocates with a much needed Socio-Political forum from which to promote established principles of Social Justice, consistent with Human Rights. VIP_Cali · Visiting Information for Prisons in CA
For all family & friends of California State Prisoners to share new information affecting visitors. This can include a change in visiting days/hours, dress codes, lockdowns, etc. Other subjects would include packages, telephone calls, mail, and generally all issues affecting us.
  Books to Prisoners - Infoshop OpenWiki
Books to Prisoners is an umbrella term for several projects and organizations that mail free reading material to prison inmates. The first Books to Prisoners project was founded in Seattle, Washington, USA in 1973; there are approximately twenty similar projects in the United States and Canada. There is no centralized organization; in keeping with the anarchist cultural roots of the project, each one runs autonomously.