Prison/Anti-Death Penalty/Criminal Injustice/Political Prisoners

The Abolishment Movement - A Site Dedicated to Abolishing the Death Penalty. 131 Deane Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts 02746 Tel: 774-644-0729 Email: lucidreeme@aol.com

Prison Book Program - c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore, 1306 Hancock Street, Suite 100 Quincy, MA 02169 Tel:(617) 423-3298 Email: info@prisonbookprogram.org

See also:
Boston Jericho

Statewide

Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty, Bristol County Chapter - Tel: 508-678-5118

Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services - 8 Winter Street, 11th Floor, Boston, MA 02108-4705. Phones: (617) 482-2773, (800) 882-1413; (617) 482-4124 (collect). For Rapid Response to Prison Brutality, Contact: Rebecca Young, Director, Email: ryoung @ mcls.net Provides civil legal services to people in Massachusetts prisons and jails. The office does not provide criminal defense services. The office focuses on four issues: health and mental health care, guard-on-prisoner violence, physical conditions of confinement, and segregation and isolation. MCLS addresses these problems through administrative advocacy, legislative advocacy, and litigation.

National

National Prison Project

Online Resources

Prison Activist Resource Center - the source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system.