For information about state correctional centers in Illinois, or to find an inmate, visit the Illinois Department of Corrections website at http://www.idoc.state.il.us/

Illinois Legal Aid Online provides legal information for Illinois residents.

www.IllinoisLegalAid.org provides lower-income and vulnerable Illinois residents with information about their legal rights and responsibilities, referrals to free and low cost legal aid offices, multimedia training and education, and forms and instructions for representing themselves.

Track legislation and find contact information for your Illinois legislators at http://www.ilga.gov/

Researchers Robert LaLonde and Susan George at the University of Chicago's Harris School are working on the Incarcerated Mothers Project - an extensive research series unfolding over several years. Learn more about it at:

http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Research/faculty_projects/incarcerated_mothers/

The Federal Resource Center for Children of Prisoners/Child Welfare League of America

The Resource Center is conducting research and evaluation, collecting and disseminating information, providing training and technical assistance, and increasing awareness among the many disciplines and service systems that come in contact with families separated by incarceration.  www.childrenofprisoners.org

CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants) is a membership organization of families of prisoners, prisoners, former prisoners and other concerned citizens. CURE's two goals are(1) touse prisons only for those who have to be in them (2) and for those who have to be in them, to provide them all the rehabilitative opportunities they need to turn their lives around.

http://www.curenational.org/new/index.html

Federal CURE, Incorporated is a nonprofit organization that deals with the issues faced by federal inmates and their loved ones. (CURE's affiliate for federal prisoners)  http://www.fedcure.org

The Family and Corrections Network is an organization for and about families of prisoners. They offer information, training and technical assistance 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.  http://www.fcnetwork.org/

The Prison Activist Resource Center - the source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system. www.prisonactivist.org

The Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), a project of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, is a network of city, state, county, private non-profit organizations, and survivors of prostitution dedicated to addressing the many issues of prostitution and homelessness in Chicago.  http://www.chicagohomeless.org/PART/parthome.htm

Find out more about our work with Beyondmedia and their other media activism on women’s incarceration at www.beyondmedia.org

Their new website www.womenandprison.org, launched November 2005 is a great resource on women prisoner issues.

The Justice Policy Institute is a non-profit research and a public policy organization dedicated to ending society's reliance on incarceration and promoting effective and just solutions to social problems. http://www.justicepolicy.org/

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social problems. CJCJ provides direct service, technical assistance and policy research in the field of juvenile and criminal justice. http://www.cjcj.org/

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children - Located in San Francisco, LSPC advocates for the human rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration. Their focus is on women prisoners and their families, and they emphasize that issues of race are central to any discussion of incarceration. http://prisonerswithchildren.org/

JusticeWorks Community, a nonprofit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, was founded in 1992 by criminal justice experts, former prisoners, and religious leaders in response to the social crisis triggered by the tripling of the female prison population in one decade. www.justiceworks.org

The Women’s Prison Association in New York is the nation’s largest service and advocacy organization working directly with criminal justice-involved women.  WPA houses the Institute on Women & Criminal Justice, a new national center for dialogue, research, and information about criminal justice-involved women, their families and communities.  www.wpaonline.org

One of the largest women's funds in the world, the Chicago Foundation for Women envisions a society in which the voices and potential of all women and girls are fully realized. To this end, the foundation is dedicated to providing opportunities and promoting solutions for women and girls by raising and distributing funds, providing technical assistance and serving as a convener in Chicago.  CLAIM is grateful to the Foundation for their support in all these ways.  www.cfw.org

The Chicago Bar Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the Chicago Bar Association, improves access to justice for people who are impacted by poverty, abuse and discrimination.  They have been a major donor to CLAIM since our earliest years.  They award grants and other assistance to legal aid and public interest law organizations, encourage the legal community to contribute time and money, function as a clearinghouse for information and resources, and provide leadership in the community on access to justice issues.  www.chicagobarfoundation.org

Community Media Workshop - Connecting the community with media, the workshop promotes news that matters. Get PR tips and connections with Chicago area media.  http://www.newstips.org/

The Prison Policy Initiative worka to show that our criminal justice system has a profound and negative impact on democracy itself.  Their Prisoners of the Census project demonstrates how the practices of incarcerating prisoners in remote communities and barring them from the polls combine to dilute the voting power of the poor, urban communities most prisoners come from.  http://www.prisonpolicy.org

The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents [CCIP]works to prevent intergenerational crime and incarceration.  They provide documentation on and development of model services for children of criminal offenders and their families.  http://www.e-ccip.org/