WHAT WILL YOU DO TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF PRISONERS?

Prisoner Rights

"The only country in the world that even comes close to the American rate of incarceration is Russia, and no other country in the world incarcerates such an astonishing percentage of its racial or ethnic minorities."

-The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The following are groups that are currently working on protecting prisoner rights. Click on any of the following to get involved.

Book 'Em

Pittsburgh's books to prisoners project.  Meets weekly at the Thomas Merton Center to organize and prepare books to ship to prisoners. To get involved, contact: bookem@indypgh.org or 412-361-3022 and leave a message. Visit: http://bookempittsburgh.org/

Fed Up! The Pittsburgh Chapter of the Human Rights Coalition

We are group dedicated to upholding the rights of prisoners through providing resources and support, exposing injustice, and building relationships with people in prison and their advocates. Currently we are focusing on Maximum Security Facilities in Pennsylvania. Human Rights Coalition - FedUp! Chapter 5129 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15224 412-301-3022  hrcfedup s@gmail.com. Visit: http://prisonerstories.blogspot.com/

Fight for Lifers West

Pittsburgh's books to prisoners project.  Meets weekly at the Thomas Merton Center to organize and prepare books to ship to prisoners. To get involved, contact: fightforliferswest@yahoo.com or 412-361-3022 and leave a message. Visit: http://fightforliferswest.mysite.com/

Amnesty International Pittsburgh*

For more than 45 years, Amnesty International has come to the aid of prisoners of conscience and other individuals at risk of serious human rights violations. To get involved directly, visit the Amnesty International USA website to find cases for prisoners:Prisoners of Conscience
To get involved locally, visit amnestypgh.org or contact info@amnestypgh.org.

Pittsburgh Committee to Free Mumia*

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning Pennsylvania journalist who exposed police violence against minority communities. On death row since 1982, he was wrongfully sentenced for the shooting of a police officer. New evidence, including the recantation of a key eyewitness, new ballistic and forensic evidence and a confession from Arnold Beverly (one of the two killers of Officer Faulkner) points to his innocence! Mumia had no criminal record. Red more on http://www.freemumia.org/.

 

*Not Projects of the TMC, but rather Affiliates.