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Criminal Justice Resources

All resources except Final Exposure and A Call to Action are free to prisoners. For others, only prepaid orders can be accepted. For more information, including postage & handling charges, please contact Shani Newton (tel: 215-241-7127).

The report explores issues of official misconduct, inadequate defense counsel, backgrounds of poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, physical and sexual abuse, mental retardation, and mental illness.

Justice Visions

What is the Meaning of Justice in a world Based on Violence, Exclusion, and Equality? Resources for more study and action>

A powerful 134-page photo essay that combines 64 portraits of people on death row with the photographer's personal account of his experience creating this book.

A new briefing paper from the American Friends Service Committee offers a deeper look at the steady proliferation of various types of isolation units throughout the U.S. prison system.

Is the current push for stronger hate crimes legislation an opportunity to strengthen rights and recognition for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities - or a strategy that will yield many unintended consequences? What is the meaning of justice - and safety - for groups affected by hate violence?

Within a human rights framework, AFSC examines the ways in which the state-sponsored violence of the death penalty is a mirror image of hate violence and injustice directed against all vulnerable and marginalized communities, including people of color, poor people, and LGBT people.

Within this booklet are statements of opposition to capital punishment from over 30 national church and faith-based organizations. We hope this publication will provide local religious communities with information and guidance on how to work for the abolition of the death penalty from a faith-based perspective.

This complete six-session study guide is designed for Christians considering the question of capital punishment as a faith issue. Biblical and denominational perspectives, information about the death penalty, and thought-provoking exercises will assist participants in finding their own understanding of this issue.

An introduction and historical background to the "I Dream a World" campaign connecting the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on nonviolence to the death penalty. A variety of resources and suggestions on how to take action are provided to help bring "I Dream a World" to your local community.

The Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project offers this collection of writings as part of our efforts to galvanize and empower the religious community in the United States to work against capital punishment. These sermons will help you to use the pulpit as a way of bringing awareness to the death penalty issue.

Militarized Zones: Gender, Race, Immigration, and Envioronment

Militarized Zones lifts up women's voices to explore how war-making is linked to racism, the criminalization of immigrants, attacks on LGBT communities, the demonization of Arabs and Muslims, the portrayal of young people as a threat to the future, the role of “demographic politics” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, restrictions on reproductive freedom, and more.

Resources Backlist

The Fortress Economy: The Economic Role of the US Prison System, $4

Lessons of Marion: The Failure of a Maximum Security Prison, $4

Native Americans on Death Row in the United States, $2

Prison Rehabilitation: The Myth, $2 Survivors' Manual, $2

A manual written by and for people living in control units/solitary confinement.

(Available to people in prison for $3.) An analysis and overview of the U.S. criminal justice system by the National Commission on Crime and Justice.

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