Legal Resources
- Prisoner's Rights Links - from the New York State Defender's Association popular (Added: 25-Nov-2001 Hits: 400)
- ACLU National Prison Project (Added: 8-Jun-2003 Hits: 195)
- ACLU National Prison Project Publication List (Added: 8-Jun-2003 Hits: 106)
- Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners (Added: 20-Nov-2003 Hits: 165)
- Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form - of Detention or Imprisonment. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 43/173 of 9 December 1988 (Added: 20-Nov-2003 Hits: 100)
- Center for Law and Justice - Albany NY: The Center for Law and Justice is a community-based organization which works to educate, advocate for, and empower poor communities and communities of color, so that they can effectively participate in social and political change. (Added: 25-Nov-2001 Hits: 115)
- Columbia Human Rights Law Review - One of the oldest and most recognized human rights journals in the world; publishes A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual and the Human Rights Law Review (Added: 21-Nov-2001 Hits: 148)
- Law and Related Resources - from Jon Harrison at the Michigan State University Libraries. (Added: 4-Sep-2002 Hits: 107)
- Legal Resources and Support Services Organizations by State - put together by the Southern Center for Human Rights (Added: 6-Dec-2003 Hits: 239)
- National Lawyers Guild - The National Lawyers Guild is an association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization that shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be more sacred than property interests. (Added: 7-Dec-2001 Hits: 124)
- North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services (Added: 19-Aug-2005 Hits: 50)
- Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project - The Project was created and designed to meet the needs of low income residents of our prisons, jails, state hospitals, and statecenters. PAILP is a non-profit organization administered by the PA Legals Services Center. (Added: 8-Apr-2004 Hits: 68)
- Prison Services Project - PSP offers national support for self-help and pro se litigants, and low cost services to attorneys who represent prisoners to encourage them to take on prisoner cases. All accounts are managed by licensed attorney. (Added: 17-Nov-2004 Hits: 93)
- Prisoner Law - This website is both an expression and extension of Professor Teresa Miller's teaching at University at Buffalo School of Law.(Links, syllabi, etc.) (Added: 20-Nov-2001 Hits: 211)
- Southern Poverty Law Center - The SPLC is a non profit organization that combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation. It's programs include the Intelligence Project, Teaching Tolerance and Tolerance.org. The Center also sponsors the Civil Rights Memorial which celebrates the memory of those who died during the Civil Rights Movement. (Added: 27-Nov-2001 Hits: 86)
- Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners - Adopted by the First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held at Geneva in 1955, and approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977 (Added: 9-Nov-2003 Hits: 91)
- The 'Lectric Law Library - This popular legal dictionary is the gateway to 1000's of pages of free legal information and free legal forms. A law information site that's useful... and fun. (Added: 3-Oct-2006 Hits: 30)