Casa Marianella provides shelter, food and full supportive services to homeless immigrants. Two clusters of shelters in renovated houses in residential neighborhoods in East Austin serve women and children escaping violence and adult immigrants. Our shelters are home-like facilities designed to meet emergency or transitional needs so vulnerable and injured people can resolve their immediate crisis, get stabilized and once again become independent, which then opens up space for new residents. In 29 years, our population has evolved from survivors of the Salvadoran war to asylum seeking refugees and other immigrants from over 40 countries.

Casa Marianella has the only homeless shelters in Austin dedicated solely to immigrants. 65% of our shelter residents, including children, are asylum seekers, many coming to us from immigration detention.

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Our volunteer program is very flexible, permitting you to work the hours and days you select.

Please email (volunteer@casamarianella.org) and let us know what your interests are and when you would like to get started.

Casa Marianella:
821 Gunter Street
Austin, TX 78702
(512) 385-5571 (Office)
(512) 385-5575 (Fax)
Email: info@casamarianella.org

Posada Esperanza:
(512) 928-8862
Posada Esperanza Email: posadaesperanza@yahoo.com

CIVIC is the national visitation network, which is working to end U.S. immigration detention by monitoring human rights abuses, elevating stories, building community-based alternatives, and advocating for system change.

CIVIC is the national network, which includes SOI local issue partner Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees. Like SOI, CIVIC is dedicated to creating an archive of the present through its storytelling projects so that current and future generations can learn about subaltern histories that are often forgotten.

Communities and individuals can get involved in many ways. You can join a CIVIC-affiliated volunteer visitation program or start a new one to provide weekly visits to people in U.S. immigration to end their isolation and monitor detention conditions. You also can become a pen pal or a hotline advocate for CIVIC's national hotline that allows people in all 210 detention facilities to call us for free. There are many ways to get involved! Sign up here!

The Pen Pal Program is open to non-U.S. citizens and undocumented individuals. To become a Pen Pal, email CIVIC at CIVICpen-pal@endisolation.org.

The Fortune Society’s mission is to support successful reentry from prison and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities. We do this by…Believing in the power of individuals to change…Building lives by service programs shaped by the needs and experience of our clients…And changing minds through education and advocacy to promote the creation of a fair, humane and truly rehabilitative correctional system.

Fortune Society members collaborated with students from The New School to curate the New York City chapter of States of Incarceration. Fortune Society members shaped the larger themes to address, contributed stories and image captions, and recorded interviews.

Call us at 212.691.7554 or stop by our office at 29-76 Northern Blvd. Long Island City, NY 11101
Hours: Monday- Thursday: 8am-8pm, Friday: 8am-5pm

At Grassroots Leadership, we believe no one should profit from the imprisonment of human beings. We live in the most incarcerated society in the history of the world. Every day we confront a prison industry that preys on pain because our addiction to locking people up dehumanizes all of us.

Grassroots Leadership fights to end for-profit incarceration and reduce reliance on criminalization and detention through direct action, organizing, research, and public education.

Grassroots Leadership builds bridges between communities to increase the capacity of local leaders and coalitions, mobilize opposition to privatization, and transform the immigration and justice systems.

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For volunteer opportunities, please fill out our volunteer form.

Mailing address (donations): P.O. Box 36006, Charlotte, NC 28236

Austin office: 2301 East Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78702 / (512) 499-8111

Inside-Out creates a dynamic partnership between institutions of higher learning and correctional systems in order to deepen the conversation about and transform our approaches to understanding crime, justice, freedom, inequality, and other issues of social concern.

Inside-Out brings college students together with incarcerated men and women to study as peers in a seminar behind prison walls. The core of the Inside-Out Program is a semester-long academic course, meeting once a week, through which 15 to 18 “outside” (i.e.: undergraduate) students and the same number of “inside” (i.e.: incarcerated) students attend class together inside prison. All participants read a variety of texts and write several papers; during class sessions, students discuss issues in small and large groups. In the final month of the class, students work together on a class project.

Students from DePaul University collaborated with students at Statesville Penitentiary to curate the Illinois chapter of States of Incarceration. “Inside” and “Outside” students asked each other “What do you want your legacy to be”, and responded with research, personal reflections, and artwork.

Suite 331, MB 66-10,
1810 Liacouras Walk,
Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Phone: 215-204-5163
Email: insideout@temple.edu

NAMI Indiana is the state organization of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. We are a grassroots public charity helping people living with serious mental illnesses, their families and friends. We support local NAMI Affiliates, train volunteer leaders, provide continuing education for professionals, and partner for systems change at the state level.

NAMI Indiana provides advocacy, support, education, and training programs for people and groups across Indiana.

Through a network of more than 20 local affiliates across the state serving more than 4,000 people, NAMI Indiana facilitates education, support and advocacy programs to improve the quality of life for people living with serious mental illnesses, their families, and their friends. NAMI programs are research based and peer led.

We are also a leading partner for government and nonprofit health, criminal justice, human services, education, and housing agencies. We provide continuing education, training, and policy analysis for those serving persons living with serious mental illnesses and their families.

Starting in July 2015, staff and volunteers with NAMI worked with IUPUI faculty and students in various ways. Two volunteers spoke to students about their experiences of living with serious mental illness. One of the NAMI Indiana board members is a member of the Community Advisory Board for the New Castle Correctional Facility; he accompanied several students on a visit of the facility. Further, volunteers and staff reviewed the text of the Indiana section of the exhibit and provided important feedback.

As a grassroots charity, NAMI Indiana relies on volunteers to provide support to families and people living with mental illnesses, as well as decrease stigma. There are many ways to get involved, please click here for a full list.

Phone: 800-677-6442
Email: info@namiindiana.org
PO Box 22697, Indianapolis, IN 46222

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Sentencing Project leadership and staff provided guidance on the project’s overall framing and its use of data, from the conceptualization of the project through its launch.

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