From Sore to Soar

Jail & Incarceration

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

• Compassion in Action

  • Website: https://compassioninactioninc.com

  • Description: When one person is confined in prison, the whole family is locked up and the entire community is affected one way or another. Connects the dots of society to assist in the recovery of all concerned and supports all efforts to bring families together. The Pre-Release Education/Reentry Preparation Program provides confined individuals the opportunity to self-explore underlying, unresolved issues during their incarceration to make changes from within to change their behaviors. Each person serving time in the department of corrections came from a home, in a neighborhood, in a community and they will be returning to the same.  Working towards success and not a liability

• Hour Children

  • Website: https://hourchildren.org

  • Description: Supporting women and their families during and after incarceration and equips them with the tools to build their futures.

• Prison Fellowship

  • Website: https://www.prisonfellowship.org

  • Description: Uses biblical view for justice reform, grassroots activism, restorative changes to prisons, strengthening family bonds

• The Marshall Project

  • Website: https://www.themarshallproject.org

  • Description: A news organization reflecting fair, transparent issues on the U.S. criminal justice system.

• National Center for Juvenile Justice and Family Court Judges

  • Website: https://www.ncjfcj.org

  • Description: Provides all judges, courts, and related agencies involved with juvenile, family, and domestic violence cases with the knowledge and skills to improve the lives of the families and children who seek justice. Includes implementation sites, model courts, and project one.

• Sex Worker Outreach Project Behind Bars

  • Website: https://www.swopbehindbars.org

  • Description: Advocacy and legal help, letters to probation officers, record expungement, reentry support, lawyer, presentencing letters of support related to charges of solicitation and sex work

• Silent Cry

  • Website: https://silentcryinc.org

  • Description: a holistic approach to aftercare from mass incarceration, gun violence, and trauma

• Volunteers Across America

  • Website: https://www.voa.org/correctional-re-entry-services

  • Description: Gives returning citizens who have been incarcerated, in prison, or jail a second chance, and the respect and dignity that goes along with it.

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References

Bronson, J. & Berzofsky, M. (2017). Special Report: Indicators of Mental Health Problems Reported by Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2011-2012. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Us. Department of Justice Office of the Justice Program.