Resources

Below are resources for formerly incarcerated and currently incarcerated individuals that we find helpful. All articles and guides are the copyright of the third parties listed and not the property of NCCAN, unless otherwise noted.

Cell-Door Magazine

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Education

Capital Defense Handbook Addendum: A Little Bit of Law

Articles and Interviews

The Whole Truth: Richard A. Leo on Why Innocent People Confess to Crimes an interview with Mark Leviton, The Sun Magazine, 2017

Murder, Etc. a podcast by Brad Willis, an award-winning reporter, stretches the true-crime podcast genre beyond dirt and grit to reinvestigate the dark past of one of the South’s most celebrated cities. What begins as an attempt by a reporter to verify a story and clear his conscience becomes a decade-long journey into the Dixie Mafia, rampant corruption, and a crime-addled city known across the nation as Gun City, USA. 

Other Good Organizations to Support

Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative was founded in 2016 to respond to the dual crisis of incarceration and recidivism. PJI brings together leading scholars, practitioners, students and those affected by the criminal justice system to tackle the problem of mass incarceration—one of the most crucial moral and political issues of our time.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. We have an impact on the system through journalism, rendering it more fair, effective, transparent, and humane.

Books

Books To Prisoners is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster a love of reading behind bars, encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-empowerment, and break the cycle of recidivism. 

Prison Book Program is a nonprofit with a mission to support people in prison by sending them free books and print resources that meet their specific needs and interests.

Helpful Links

Higher education after incarceration written by Intelligent.com Higher Education Team