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Police Misconduct

Your Rights Against Police Searches (GA)

Police Misconduct/Brutality (ACLU)
Links to groups that protect the public against police misconduct.

National Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Criminal Law Topics (Atlanta Legal Aid)
Your basic rights, the pretrial and trial process, prisoner's rights, juvenile delinquency, pardons and expungements, etc.

http://www.washlaw.edu/subject/criminal.html
All sorts of police related links, law enforcement, criminal defense, etc.

Find Your Local Newspaper, Magazine, Radio & TV Stations
Give them a little bad press and you're bargaining power increases tremendously. Press also attracts high powered attorneys who may take your case. Select your state, and then click on your county or city for the proper media to report to. (DC Not Included).

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Law Enforcement Agencies

The Police Officer’s Internet Directory (All 50 States & DC)
Includes the Complete Directory of Law Enforcement
Agencies and the Complete Directory of Law Officer’s Home Pages. Also provides links to associations, libraries and other sources.

Criminal Justice Links
Links to the FBI, all sorts of crime stats, forensic medicine and crime solving and more.  

Criminal Justice Agencies In All The 50 States
A mixture of state government links, some of which lead to agencies like the Attorney General's, Dept of Juvenile Justice, Parole Boards, Public Defenders and State investigation Bureaus. 

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Prison-Related People & Places

Corrections White Pages
To find the email addresses of prison staff, sheriffs, bail-bondsmen, parole officers and other people involved with the criminal justice system.

Department Of Corrections (All 50 States & DC)

Ministries, Counseling & Other Help (Consumer-SOS)

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Cons, Ex-cons & Their Families

Legal Assistance (Consumer-SOS)

Ministries, Counseling & Other Help (Consumer-SOS)

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Ministries, Counseling, & Other Help

Prison Fellowship Ministries
May have Georgia Chapter with ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, their families, their victims and their communities.  They conduct Bible studies and in-prison seminars, mentor prisoners, participate in pen pal programs and do marriage and parenting skill sessions.  They also offer family support groups.

Fairness To Prisoner's Families (List of Georgia Links and advocates)

Defending Your Rights In Prison (GA)
Includes indigent defense, navigating prison bureaucracy, protecting your right to medical care and more.

ForeverFamily, (404) 233-1200
Provides counseling and support to the children of imprisoned mothers. 

Catholic Social Services (404) 881-6571
CSS projects include those that serve battered women and women in prison.

Prison Outreach In Georgia (Google Links)
Advocates for Georgia Prisoners.

Friends Of Prison Families (404) 523-7110
Provides transportation for families and friends of prison inmates held in Handcock, Macon and Hayes Prisons.  Also offers after-care mentoring relationships.

United Way Help Line  (For All 50 States, DC & Puerto Rico)
Choose your state, select your city, and look up help agencies throughout the country. Their stellar search engine can lead you to any social service topic you can think of.  For example, type in the words "Counseling" and/ or "prison" or "rehabilitation".

Prison Ministries, Support Groups & Legal Help
Hundreds of links all in alphabetical order.

Families & Corrections Network
FCNetwork is for and about families of offenders. We offer information on children of prisoners, parenting programs for prisoners, prison visiting, incarcerated fathers and mothers, hospitality programs, keeping in touch, returning to the community, the impact of the justice system on families, and prison marriage.

LOOPS (Loved Ones Of Prisoners), Inc.
Non-denominational, Christian organization dedicated to the support and restoration of prisoners and their families.

F.F.I.P. (Friends and Family of Incarcerated Persons)
Support Group for Families and Friends of People Incarcerated.

Dearest Mom's Home Site
The support site is for moms who have a grown child in the prison system. We welcome new moms all the time and the moms at the site are of great support. Also very caring and no bias opinions...or ask any questions. Just good ol' fashion support and love. This is our third year in operation.

United Way Help Line  (For All 50 States, DC & Puerto Rico)
Choose your state, select your city, and look up help agencies throughout the country. Their stellar search engine can lead you to any social service topic you can think of.  For example, type in the words "Children and (the name of your topic)" or "prison" and "rehabilitation".

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Legal Assistance & Advocacy (Local & National)

Written Legal Resources

Getting Georgia Prison Or Jail Standard Operating Polices & Procedures
To get a copy of an SOP, contact the Policies and Procedures
Administrator in the GDC Legal Division by phone, mail, or e-mail at:
Policies and Procedures Administrator
Georgia Department of Corrections  404-656-0893
 2 Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive, SE
 870 Twin Towers East
 Atlanta, GA 30334
 info@dcor.state.ga.us

Defending Your Rights In Prison (GA)
Includes indigent defense, navigating prison bureaucracy, protecting your right to medical care and more.

Criminal Law: Pardons, Paroles, Work Release (GA Legal Aid)
Collection of resources.

Advocates

LOOPS (Loved Ones Of Prisoners), Inc.

Southern Center For Human Rights (404) 688-1202
For city, county and state inmates who have problems concerning jail or prison conditions.  Call them if you received insufficient medical treatment, abuse from jail personnel, or were denied access to legal materials.  They also give legal advice about criminal post-conviction matters on a death penalty cases. 

Koinonia Prison and Jail Project 229-924-0391
The Prison and Jail Project visits prisoners regularly in Southwest Georgia. The Prison and Jail Project advocates on behalf of prisoners and their families; monitors conditions in the jails and prisons; works to increase the public’s awareness of these conditions; calls attention to the system’s inadequacies; and explores the viability of various alternatives to incarceration.

Georgia Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers 404-248-1777
This organization may be able to refer you to an attorney or possibly provide legal advice about your case. (They may not accept collect calls.)

Georgia Public Defender Standards Council (404) 232-8900
This organization accepts complaints about court appointed attorneys/public defenders, and can assist you in obtaining a court appointed attorney. (They may not accept collect calls.)

State Bar Pro Bono Project (404) 527-8700
They service the poor and elderly in civil matters but will refer persons to their local bar president.

Catholic Social Services (404) 885-7454
Call if you need assistance with immigration matters.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (404) 523-5398
Call them if you have a free speech, religion or other civil liberty complaint.

Prison Legal News (Georgia)
Prison Legal News' coverage includes court access,
disciplinary hearings, prison conditions, excessive force, mail
censorship, jail litigation, visiting, telephones, religious freedom,
free speech, prison rape, abuse of women prisoners, retaliation, the
Prison Legal Reform Act (PLRA), medical treatment, AIDS, the death
penalty, control units, attorney fees and much more.Sample copies of the
most recent copies of PLN are posted on our homepage in PDF format.

For further information, please contact Advocate:
        Gerald Weber, Attorney
      
        or

        Paul Wright, Editor (802) 257-1342
        Prison Legal News
        P.O. Box 2420
        Brattleboro, VT 05303
       pwright@prisonlegalnews.org


Disability Rights Advocates To People Incarcerated With Disabilities

Georgia Advocacy Office 404-885-1234
For their staff email directory which includes their attorneys
The Georgia Advocacy Office (GAO) is a private non-profit corporation.
Its mission is to work with and for oppressed and vulnerable individuals
in Georgia who are labeled as disabled or mentally ill to secure their protection and advocacy.

150 E. Ponce de Leon Avenue
Suite 430
Decatur, Georgia 30030

National Alliance For Mental Illness 703-524-7600

Attorney Robert W. Cullen (404) 607-9008
For city, county and state inmates who have problems concerning jail or prison conditions.  Call him if you received insufficient medical treatment, abuse from jail personnel, or were denied access to legal materials.  They also give legal advice about criminal post-conviction matters on a death penalty cases. 

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